JULIUS

See also:

• JULIUS STINDE (1841-1905)

STINDE (1841-1905)  , German author, was born at Kirchnifchel near Eutin on the 28th of August 1841, the son of a clergyman . Having attended the gymnasium at Eutin, he was apprenticed in 1858 to a chemist in Lubeck . He soon tired of the shop, and went to study chemistry at Kiel and Giessen where he proceeded to the degree of doctor of philosophy . In 1863 Stinde received an appointment as consulting chemist to a large industrial undertaking in Hamburg; but, becoming editor of the Hamburger Gewerbeblatt, he gradually transferred his energies to journalism . His earliest works were little comedies, dealing with Hamburg life, though he continued to make scientific contributions to various journals . In 1876 Stinde settled in Berlin and began the series of stories of the Buchholz family, vivid and humorous studies of Berlin middle-class life by which he is most widely known . He died at Olsberg near Kassel on the 7th of August 1905 . The first of the series Buchholzens in Italien (translated by H . F . Powell, 1887) appeared in 1883 and achieved an immense success . It was followed by Die Familie Buchholz in 1884 (translated by L . D .

Schmitz, 1885) ; Frau Buchholz

im Orient in 1888; Frau Wilhelmine (Der Familie Buchholz letzter Teil; translated by H . F . Powell, 1887) in ,886; Wilhelmine Buchholz' Memoiren, in 1894; and Hotel Buchholz; Ausstellungserlebnisse der Frau Wilhelmine Buchholz, in 1896 . Under the pseudonyms of Alfred de Valmy, Wilhelmine Buchholz and Richard E . Ward, he also published various other works of more or less merit, among which his Naturphilosophie (1898) deserves special mention; his Waldnovellen (1881) have been translated into English . STINK-WOOD, in botany, a South African tree, known botanically as Ocotea bullata; and a member of the family Laurineae . Other names for it are Cape Walnut, Stinkhout, Cape Laurel and Laurel wood . It derives its name from having a strong and unpleasant smell when fresh felled . It is used for building in South Africa and is described by Stone (Timbers of Commerce, p . 174) as " the most beautiful dark-coloured wood that I have yet met with." It is said to be a substitute for teak and equally durable . The wood is dark walnut or reddish brown to black with a yellow sap-wood, and the grain extremely fine, close, dense and smooth .