many graphic stories about Galicia,
and lives at Leipsic, surrounded by a coterie of admiring friends. He
makes an accurate outline; then pens his novel word for word till it is
finished, whereupon it is handed to the printer as it is, not a word
being altered, added, or erased. He is not in the habit of using
stimulating drinks or tobacco when at work, and leads altogether a
temperate life. He has an innate predilection for fur, and declares that
fur worn by a beautiful woman exercises a magic spell over him. Formerly
he had a pretty black cat that used to lie on his knees or sleep on his
writing-desk when he was at work. Now, when he writes, a red velvet
lady's-jacket, with a fur lining of sable and borders of the same
material, lies near at hand upon a divan. Although he is ordinarily
good-natured, his anger is easily provoked by any disturbance during
working hours. Composition is mere play to him after he has begun, but
the first lines of a new work always are penned with difficulty. When he
writes without an inclination, he is, as a rule, dissatisfied with the
result. Generally he spends from three to four hours at the writing-desk
and devotes the rest of the day to recreation.

Dr. Julius Stinde, who is responsible for that excellent German satire,
"Die Familie Buchholz," never works by lamplight, if he can possibly
avoid it. He writes on large sheets, of quarto size, and never makes an
outline; the compositor gets the manuscript as it was written, with a
few, but not many, alterations. Whatever is not satisfactory to the
author is thrown into the waste-paper basket, which, in consequence, is
pretty large. While at work he takes a pinch of snuff from time to time,
which, he asserts, has a beneficial action on the eyes that are taxed by
incessant study and composition. When he treats of scientific topics, a
few glasses of Rhine wine tend to induce the proper mood; he finds the
"Johannisgarten," a wine grown at Musbach in the palatinate of the
Rhine, especially valuable for this purpose. He composes humorous work
most easily after a very simple breakfast, consisting of tea and bread.
He is in the habit of often changing the kinds of paper, pens,
pen-holders, ink, and even ink-stands, which he uses; and loves to see
fresh flowers on his writing-desk. He writes with greater facility in
fine, sunny weather than on dark, gloomy days. That is the reason why he
prefers, on cloudy days, to write in the evening. He declare