He entered a room, we are told, with a bold and confident air; and we have it from another witness that he was _d'une suffisance insupportable_.[71] Be it remarked, however, that there is equal testimony to the overpowering charm of his bearing and conversation--a charm due, as we learn, to a spontaneity of feeling and exuberance of youthful spirits which broke through all conventions and gave the tone to every company in which he found himself.
[Footnote 70: Jung Stilling.] [Footnote 71: Biedermann, _op.

cit._, i.pp.15, 19.

At an earlier period Goethe was thus described: "Er mag 15 oder 16 Jahr alt sein, im uebrigen hat er mehr ein gutes Plappermaul als Gruendlichkeit." _Ib._ p.
6.] Goethe's relations to another member of the circle, who joined it somewhat later, show him in his most attractive light.

This was Johann Heinrich Jung, better known as Jung Stilling, now about thirty years of age.

Stilling was another of those originals who crossed Goethe's path at different periods, and to whom he was at all times specially attracted.