FREYTAG’S “Pictures of German Life” is a valuable collection of historical and philosophical studies, much more thorough than the public might have expected from one whose habits as a novelist, dramatist, and poet, tended perhaps to foster the inventive faculty at the expense of industry in research. But Freytag was no less fond of antiquarian investigation than Sir Walter Scott, with whom, remarkably enough, he shared a marked fondness for the Devil as a subject for discussion. Freytag was born at Kreuzburg, Silesia, July 13th, 1816. His first notable work was as a dramatist and poet. His celebrated novel, “Debit and Credit,” was published in 1855 in three volumes. Its fortieth edition appeared in 1895. “The Lost Manuscript,” “Ancestors,” and “Recollections of My Life” are among his later works. He died at Wiesbaden, April 30th, 1895.