on.

Dr. Alfred Friedmann, a witty Austrian journalist, writes his brilliant
articles at one sitting. He makes few corrections, and, sometimes,
before the ink is dry on the "copy," off it goes to the printer.
Whenever he feels in need of refreshment, he gets up from his
writing-desk and has recourse to a wine-bottle near by. He never
performs literary labor unless he is inclined to work. Sometimes he does
not write for weeks, and then again he writes half a book at a time.

J. Scherr, the noted professor of the University of Zuerich, Switzerland,
who is a novelist as well as an historian, spends his forenoon at his
writing-desk. He works standing, and writes, when in good health, with
wonderful facility. Formerly, he often used to work as long as ten
hours, but now he devotes only three or four hours a day to literary
work.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson composes always in the daytime, never at
night. He sometimes makes an outline. He uses no stimulants while at
work, or at any time. He writes for from three to five hours a day. He
sometimes forces himself to "drive the quill," but rarely, generally
enjoying literary work very much.

Ludwig Auzengruber, the Austrian storyteller, never writes at night. He
always makes an outline of his work at the beginning, and is addicted to
tobacco, which he consumes when at work. He is in the habit of walking
up and down the room when elaborating a new story, and never writes down
a sentence before he has pronounced it aloud. Auzengruber is a very
industrious man, and sometimes writes for as many as eleven hours a day.

Gerhard von Amyntor, who is one of the best known of German authors, is
also a very diligent writer. He composes for from three to four hours
every morning, but rarely in the evening, and never at night. The
afternoon and evening are spent in reading or conversation, or in
revising that which he has written in the forenoon. He never makes a
skeleton of his work, but his manuscripts are copied before they reach
the printer. Tobacco is indispensable to him when he is producing
poetry. He works standing, and in solitude. The production, in the mind,
of novels and fiction generally is easy to him, but the mechanical labor
of writing down the product of his imagination he deems sad drudgery,
because he is affected by writers' cramp, and he never sets pen to paper
unless he feels disposed to.

Walt Whitman closely adhered to his home and rooms. His income was just
suffi