For the use of the following autobiographical sketch, I am indebted to the courtesy of Herr Staackmann, the author's publisher in Leipzig. 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.…
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