From the front door a few minutes' walk brings me into the heart of a wealthy and populous city; as many paces from my opposite entrance place me in a solitude as complete as Zimmerman could have desired.

Surely, with such aids to my imagination, I may write better than if I were in a lodging in the New Town or a garret in the old.

As the Spaniard says, "VIAMOS--CARACCO!" I have not chosen to publish periodically, my reason for which was twofold.

In the first place, I don't like to be hurried, and have had enough of duns in an early part of my life to make me reluctant to hear of or see one, even in the less awful shape of a printer's devil.

But, secondly, a periodical paper is not easily extended in circulation beyond the quarter in which it is published.