The very successful performance of the complete Wallenstein in the spring of 1799 added greatly to his prestige, for discerning judges could see that something extraordinary had been achieved.

WALLENSTEIN at a black Table, on which a Speculum Astrologicum is described with Chalk.

[WALLENSTEIN by a motion of his hand makes signs to her to be silent.

This frontier town had been chosen by Wallenstein for the scene of his triumph over his proud rival.

Rapidly assembling his troops in Franconia, he followed the route of Wallenstein through Thuringia.

By this he meant that, on the one hand, the blind confidence of the troops in the luck and the destiny of their leader made him arrogant and reckless, and, on the other hand, perhaps, that the mercenary character of these soldiers of fortune forced Wallenstein to steps which his calm judgment would have condemned.

There was no room for a Wallenstein under such an ally; and it was, apparently, this conviction, and not any supposed designs upon the imperial throne, that he alluded to, when, after the death of the King of Sweden, he exclaimed, "It is well for him and me that he is gone!