Connecticut western news., 1877-05-11
Rapid Writers.

many interesting IaCCS concerning the time occupied in the preparation of their works. From the number of works prepared by some of the ancients we judge that they wrote very rapidly. Livy wrote one hundred and forty-two books. Cicero wrote three or four inn portant works in single year. Byron, we are told, wrote the sCorsair" in ten days; Fenelon ''Telemaque" in three months. Walter Scott wrote a book for which he was paid one thousand pounds, in two days. 'tRab and his Friends" by Dr. John Brown, was written, it is said, in single sitting. Dean Shipley said to Heber, Suppose you write hymn for the service to- morrow morning." The hymh. "From Greenland's Icy Mountains;" was writ ten and printed, and used in the mis- sionary service of the following day. Baxter, in fourteen years, wrote and published nearly sixty volumes. Chal- mers being asked how long it took in the preparation of sermon, replied:
 "That depends on how long you want it. If your sermon is to be half an hour long, it will take you three days; if it is to be three quarters of an hour, it will take two, or perhaps one, but if you are going to preach an hour, then there is not much occasion to think a great deal about 1t. It may be done in an hour" When Robert Hall was con- suited on the same subject he gave sub- stantially the same answer. Both these great men believed that the longer the time of composition the less of value the production possessed. But pr. Johnson, who prepared forty-eight printed octave pages at single sitting, when he heard that it took Blair week to compose sermon, remarked, "Then, sir, it is for the want of the habit of composing quickly, which I am insist ing one should acquire. would say to young divine: Here is your text; let us see how soon you can make a sermoD.' Then I'd say, tlet us see how much better you can make it, Thus I should see both his powers and judg- ment.'
 Charles KingIey's Love Of Animals.
 But to speak of his home without mentioning his love of animals would be to leave the picture incomplete. His dog and his horse were his friends and they knew it, and understood his voice and eye. He was 8 perfect horseman, and never lost his temper with his horse, talking to and reasoning with it if it shied or bolted, as it had been a rational being knowing that, from the fine organization of the animal, horse like child, will get confused by panic fear, which is only increased by pun ishment. His dog Dandy, fine Scotch terrier, was his companion in all his parish walks, attended at the cottage lectures and school lessons, and was his and the children's friend for thir- teen years. He lies buried under the great fir trees on the rectory lawn, with this inscription on his gravestone, s'Fideli Fideles, and close by "Sweep" magnificent black retriever, and '.Victor," a favorite Teckel, given to him by the Queen, with which he sat up during the last two suffering nights of the little creature's life. Oats, too, were continual delight to him the stable had always its white cat and the house it's black or tabby, and he never tired of watching their graceful move ments, His love of animals was strength ened by his belief in their future state "a belief which he held in common with John Wesley and many other re- markable men. On the lawn dwelt family of natter jacks (running toads), who lived on from year to year in the same hole in the green bank, which the scythe was never allowed to approach. He had two little friends in pair of wasps, who lived in a crack of the win dow in his dressing-reom, one of which he had saved from drowning in hand basin, taking it tenderly out into the sunshine to dry and every spring he would look out eagerly for them or their children, who came out of or re- turned to the same crack.