He has eleven uncles and aunts and eighteen cousins, and has never quarreled with any of them. He has been inoculated against typhoid and hay fevers. He is a prompt correspondent, and answers every letter the day it is received. He keeps his watch on an old-fashioned clothes-press in his workroom, and winds it every time he looks at it. He detests windy days. As between heat and cold, he prefers heat. He never preserves love letters, and never writes them. His tonsils have been cut out. His Wassermann reaction is and always has been negative. He has a low blood pressure. His heart and kidneys are normal. His favorite hotel is the Bayrischer Hof at Munich. After that he ranks them in the following order: the Adlon, Berlin; the Palace, Madrid; the Paladst, Copenhagen; the Statler, Buffalo; the Edouard VII, Paris. He says the best place to eat in the whole world is at the basement lunch counter of the Rennert Hotel, Baltimore. The best things to order there are oyster potpie, boiled turkey with oyster sauce, Virginia ham and spinach, and boiled tongue. He owns ten suits of clothes, and wears them seriatim. All of them are of summer weight. He never wears heavy clothes. He never wears patent leather shoes, even with dress clothes. He wears horn spectacles for reading, but never otherwise. Between 1899 and 1906 he wrote and published thirty-five short stories. Since 1906 he has written none. For five years he contributed a daily article to the Baltimore _Evening Sun_. His total writings for newspapers run to nearly 10,000,000 words. He has reported three national conventions and nine executions. His one-act play, “The Artist,” has been translated into German, Dano-Norwegian, Italian, and Russian. He has twice voted for Roosevelt, not by conviction, but because he believes Roosevelt gives a better show than any other performer in the ring. In politics he is a strict federalist. He advocates woman suffrage on the ground that, if women voted, democracy would be reduced to an absurdity the sooner. He is very polite to women, particularly if he dislikes them, which is usually. He owns the original manuscript of “Sister Carrie,” presented to him by Dreiser. He is a nephew of the late Right Rev. Frederick Bainville Mencken, bishop of Akkad _in partibus infidelium_. This uncle was disinherited by his grandfather as a result of a family dispute over transubstantiation. His pet literary abominations are “alright” (as one word) and the use of “near” as an adjective. He will never speak of or to an author who uses either. His favorite eating places in New York are Rogers’, the Kloster Glocke, the Lafayette, and the Café del Pezzo. The cities he likes best are Munich, Chicago, Baltimore, and London. He dislikes Paris, Rome, Berlin, and New York—the last-named so much that, whenever he has any work to do, he goes to Baltimore to do it. He was an intimate friend of the late Paul Armstrong for many years and never quarreled with him.