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There are more thing, IN heaven and earth Horatio
| Inan are lreammt 81 IN your philosophy.
Age aai Intellect.
(From The Boston Courier)
The richer nature says Carlyle,
/ 1.-The harder and slowerits developement.
/ Two bows Were once of Il class IN the
Edinburgh grammar school; John ever
trim, precise and dux Walter ever sloyen-
| lv, confused, ar d dolt. In due time John
| became Baillie John Of Hunter square,
and Walter became Sir Walter Scott OF
the universe The quickest and com
pletest of all vegetables is the cabbage.
! This slowly developed Sir Walter Scott
of the Universe" was thirty four when he
made his first draft of "Waverly," and
forty three when he rewrote and publish
ed. Nearly every one of those tales
which conferred Immortality upon HIM
was composed after he had reached the
age of forty six. He wrote the Heart OF
Midlothian" nj for:y-sevcn the Bride
of Lammermosr. "A Legend OF Mont
rose, and "fvanhoe" at forty eight the
Pirate and ''Peveril Of the Peak at
fifty; the Tales Of the Crusaders at
fifty four; and the chronicles OF the
Canongate" at fifty seven.
Carlyle was fortvtwo when he publish
cd the French Revolution the first
work Of his to which he formerly put his
name. The publication Of this work was,
it is true delayed, owing to the burning
of the Ms. of one volume through the
carelessness of Mrs. Taylor, to whom it
had been loaned by John Stuart Mill; ;
but if that mishap had not occurred, Car
lyle would have been over forty before
his work could have appeared. Ibis
Cromwell WAS published when he was
fifty; the first two volumes OF his Fred
erick the Great when he wGs sixty three,
another two when he WAS sixty seven, and
the last when he was siXty-nlne. Swift
was tifty-nine when he published "Gulli-
ver's Travels, and certainly did no work
on it before. he was fifty seven. Tennyson
had reached fifty when his first idyls,
"Euid, .'Elaine, 'Nivien' and ''Gulne-
we're were published. and was about sixty
two when he conplc,.d the rlrs with
''Gareth and l.Nnette Macaulay was
forty eight when he issued the first and
second volumes OF his History OF Eng
land, and the third and fourth did not
appear till he was iifty-tivc. Good as are
the essays Of his early manhood. they
pale when Compared with tins work OF his
mature years,
John Stuart Mill WAS - when his essay
"On Liberty was published, and 81
when he gave us that on ''Uulitarianlsm. 4
Milton was certainly more than 81 when
he beganto compose his Paradise Lost.
He was 5S when he sold ii to Simmons
the bookseller George Eliot composed
"Mlldlemarch" between the age OF Ii and
5l, and since then ''Daniel Deronda.
Bacon WAS ~ before he published his
great work, The Novum Organum.
CaHpcr Mis- over - when he wrote John
Gilpin" and IL. '.rusk - and Defoe 5S
when he published "Robinson Crusoe."
Darwin published his 'Ori9ln of Spe-
cies' when ~. and his descent Of Man
when e. Grote wrot" the larger part of
of his History OF Greece between the
ages of - and 81, and Hallam occupied
nearly the same period OF hfe with his
'.Introduc.ion to the Literature OF Eu-
rope" The two works by which Ihomns
Hood has survived the grave, The
Bridge of Slghs' and the Song Of the
Shirt" were composed when he was 46,
and on Il sick bed from which lie never
rose
Longfellow gave us "lllawathn' when
forty eight Tales OF a Wayslde Inn
when fifty SIN, and since then has been as
prolific rs he has been excellent. We
need ONLY mention his translation Of
Dante's "Divina Commedla, and his
exquisite poem, 'Morituri Salutamus.
The Autocrat OF the Breakfast Table
was published when Holmes was forty
eight, and Songs i'll Many Keys when
tifty-tve. Washington Irving completed
Tales OF the Alhanbra' at forty-nine,
published "Mahomet at sixty seven, and
the Life of George Washington after
that age. Prescott wrote, we believe, the
Conquest of Mexico" between the ages
of forty-one and forty-seven, and the
Conquest of Peru" between forty-seven
and tifty-one Motley completed the
History of the United Netherlands at
fifty three, and after that bag.m the his
tory Of John of Barnevald,' which he
published when he was sixty.
Frenchmen have produced very re-
markable books long after the noon-day
of life. Laplace did all extraordinary
amount OF mathematical work after three
score and ten, and Victor Hugo scarcely
'.got under way" before he WAS fifty He
published Napoleon the Little" at fifty,
lies Chatiments" at tiitv-one, LES
Miserables' at fiity-seven, the "Toilers of
the Sea" at sixty-fUur, The Man Who
Laughs at sixty-seven, and the "Annals
of A Terrible Year" at seventy. The
great physicist and mathematician,
Amberet, did not begin to devote his at
tention to the phenomena OF electro
magnetism till he was forty-five, and 1t
was from fifty-one to tifty-thrce that he
published his observations, work.
characterized, us has been said, "by pro
found thought and extraordinary philoso-
phical sagacity." Raching was fifty when
he wrote his drama OF Esther, and iif-
ty-two, that OF '.Athalir" the finest pro
duction of his genius, AMI masterpiece
of dramatic eloIuencc. Thiers was six
ty-tiye when he completed his ''Consu-
late and Empire" and Chateaubrlend
sixty y-thIee when he published his
"Etudes.'
Cervantes had passed his fifty eighth
year before he published the first part OF
! Don Quixote," and WAS sixty eight
when he issued the second part. He and
Shakespeare died ON the same day.
Cicero composed most of his philoso-
phical tr,atises between the ages of fifty
eight and sixty-two. Gilileo published
his Dialogue on the Two Pnnciplc Sys
tens of the World at sixty eight the
Dialogue on Local Motion at seventy
four, the age al which lac discovered the
moons y diurnnl liberation.
g. e.hc and Kant, two of the greatest
minds that ever lived, did, III view oftsieir
later works. scarcely anything till they
had passed the age of fortv-fivo. Kant was
nothing but Il professor till fifty seven.
when he published his ''Critique Of Pure
Reason, on which he had begun work ten
Years before When sixty four he issu'd
his "Critique of Practical Reason, and
his 'Critique on Judgment was
published two wears later. But tho
most conspicuous literary example
of fertility at an advanced age Is
Goethe. At forty eight lac published
"Ilcrmann AMI Dorothea, and at fifty
six his immortal Faust. ''lf Goethe,
saws Carlyle. had died Ia lSlt tthe year
when Faust appenrcdl, he would have
achieved greater r,nuNn than any other
man of letters. bat he Was destined to live
twenty six years longer, years "i labor
and productivcncsi Ia lsUg. when fifty
nine, he published - Elective Aiinitles, ~
and in 1881. ut the ace of eight two,
Helene, the second part OF Faust
While Senator E,lmunds was speaking on
the hill for the relief OF Ben llollI,lay, lac
was maniicstly annoyed hy Senator Cunk-
ling's loud taking. Cnnhling and Cameron
had drawn their chairs together, and their
heads almost in contact tunklng'S voice
! IL IL