The author of the following work is a man well on in the fifties and lives-as he should-on his native soil. Born in Steiermark, Austria, in a lonely mountain region, he led the life of a forest peasant until he reached the age of eighteen, when he became apprenticed to a travelling peasant tailor. On the expiration of this apprenticeship, which covered a period of four years, he spent other four years as charity scholar in the commercial school at Graz. After these experiences, and after having mastered such a variety of subjects, he began to work at something which he not only had not...