Despite his apparent complete imversion in his very abstruse studies, von Stael-Holstein' took the keenest Interest in the political questions of the day on which he was extremely well-informed, And many of his judgments, though they would have horrified the modern world, proved themselves to be perfectly' correct and justified by events.
His unexpected death will leave a large gap in the academic world, but still more among the circle of his ends, for Baron von Stod-Holstein was a' really fine character whose ike one does not often meet in this world.
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