In his own opinion, the best thing he has ever written is “Death: a Discussion” in his “Book of Burlesques.” He wears B. V. D.’s all the year round, and actually takes a cold bath every day. He never has his nails manicured, but trims them with a jacknife. Every Saturday night he spends the time between 8 and 10 playing music, and the time between 10 and 12 drinking Michelob. He plays second piano. He has received three proposals of marriage, but has never succumbed. He has never seduced a working girl. He has no issue. He works in his shirt-sleeves and sleeps in striped pajamas. He wears Manhattan garters, No. 15½ Belmont collars, and very long-tailed overcoats. His plug hat, which he wears but two or three times a year, has a flat brim, like that of a French comedian. He is smooth-faced and shaves every morning with a Gillette safety razor. Once, while in Paris, he grew a yellow moustache and goatee. They lasted, however, but two weeks. He has lived in one house in Baltimore for 34 years. In it he has 3000 books. He owns the largest collection of Ibseniana in the world, including autographs, first editions, and other rarities. Part of it is in Baltimore, part in Copenhagen, part in Munich, and part in Geneva. He reads German and Norwegian fluently, French, Spanish, Italian, and Latin less fluently, and makes shift to sweat through the following: Russian, Greek, Dutch, Rumanian, Serbian, Czech, Sanskrit, Assyrian, Hungarian, and Swedish. His favorite American poet is Lizette Woodworth Reese. He and she have lived in the same city for years, but they have never met. His total receipts in royalties on his books, in fifteen years, have been $172.50. His personal funds are invested in bonds of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the Midvale Steel Company, and the Danish, Chilean, and Swiss governments. During his newspaper career he was American correspondent of the Hongkong _Press_, the Kobe _Chronicle_, and the Colombo (Ceylon) _Observer_. One of his fads is theology. He understands its technical terminology, and is sometimes consulted on difficult points by both Catholic and Protestant clergy. Down to July 7, 1913, he employed suspenders to hold up his trousers. Being then convinced by Nathan that such appliances had a socialistic smack, he abandoned them for a belt. He reads an average of ten books a week, in addition to those he goes through for reviewing purposes. The subjects he affects are theology, biology, economics, and modern history. He has never read George Eliot, or Jane Austen, or Bulwer-Lytton. He has never been able to read Dostoievsky, or Turgeniev, or Balzac. His favorite writers, as a youth, were Thackeray, Huxley, and Kipling. He seldom reads newspapers. The only magazines he ever looks at are the _Smart Set_, _Ed Howe’s Monthly_, the _Country Gentleman_, the _Masses_, the _Seven Arts_, and the _Ladies’ Home Journal_.