Excerpt from Edelsteine: Six Select Stories by Baumbach, Seidel, and VolkmannleanderEach one of these three writers is distinctly the child of the soil from which he sprang. Though the particularism of Germany was for centuries its political curse, it certainly had the tendency to preserve the distinctive characteristics of each section of that country. Personality, however, and fate which nowadays perhaps more than at any other period in the history of mankind dally with the individual, especially in the beginning of his career, as the waves of the ocean play with the yet inexperienced pilot had much to do with the final direction of their characters. But when once the helmsman feels his kinship with the elements, he manages the rudder with a firm hand, guided by confidence born of conscious skill, now his ship safely faces raging waters and threatening storms, and finally rests at anchor in the well-protected harbor.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.