A man of little education; bred in camps; yet of a proud natural eminency, and rugged nobleness of genius and mind.

Let readers mark this fiery hero-spirit, lying buried in those dull Books, like lightning among clay.

Here is another anecdote of his Russian business:-- "Winterfeld had gone, in Friedrich Wilhelm's time, with a party of Prussian drill-sergeants for Petersburg [year not given]; and duly delivered them there.

He naturally saw much of Feldmarschall Munnich, naturally saw the Step-daughter of the Feldmarschall, a shining beauty in Petersburg; Winterfeld himself a man of shining gifts, and character; and one of the handsomest tall men in the world.

Mutual love between the Fraulein and him was the rapid result.