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Show MADE ROUND OF WORK. Southey's Literary Compositions Done In Regular Hours. Southey was another methodical and rapid literary craftsman. "1 am a qulot, patient, oasy-golng 'hack of tho mute breed; regular as clockwork In my pace, sure footed, bearing tho burden bur-den which is laid on mo, nnd only obstinate ob-stinate in choosing my own path," ho wtoto to a friend. Hut his method was by no means slmpl". Ho was a poet, an historian, a critic and a miscellaneous mis-cellaneous writer; ho turned out nn enormous quantity of matter, and succeeded suc-ceeded In doing so by working four-toon four-toon hours a day and diversifying his labois within his dally round. He had six tables In his library. Ho wrote poetry at one, history at another, criticism criti-cism at a third, and so on with the other subjects upon which he was en-pai?eil, en-pai?eil, and when he was tired of spinning spin-ning his brains Into verse ho turned to history and criticism. There Is a story that hu onco described to Mme. do Slael the division of his time two hours lieforo breakfast for history, two hours for reading after, two hours for tlie composition of poetry, two hours for cilticlsm, and so on through all his working day. "And pray, Mr. Southey," queried the French woman, somewhat unkindly, "when do you thlnjt?" Cornhll Mngartno. |