Habits Of Composition

the 'i' ullt iiKin'r. Magazine tells iis t luit i iiKist of tke great English writers wroto slowly, and took great pains with thcir pomposition . Diokens, when he intended to write a Christmas atory, sliút himsell' up for six weeks, lived the liie of a hermit, and came ont lookiiig as haggard as a j erèr. Toin Moore, with 11 iiis efifetv.ee ei ice riiid spavkle, tliought it qviii'k work if he added seventy nneB to "Lalla Kookli" in a week, aithough living ou of the world, in a writing-box on the Peak.