The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1885-02-21
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA.
A Msn of Varied Career and Extraordin-
airy Versatility

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Boston Globe
A most versatile and attractive writer,
Mr.. Sala is fortunate in having at his
command so many resources, for every
article in the collection is turned to ac-
count, and serves its purpose, There is
no better read man England, and it is
largely due to his untiring spirit of work
that he is able to do 50 much, and TO
have such Il remarkable knowledge on
SO. many Of the great subjects which in
ttfest mankind.
Between the ages of 6 and 9, says
The London World in its mention of
Sala among the celebrities of the time,
he was absolutely blind by reason of
severe inlammatory attack and at y he
could neither read nor write. This was
the time whom a dear sister read to him
by the hour and when his wonderful
memory had its early training. FAIRY
Stories novels, history, travels, scores
of books supposed to be beyoul the
comprehension of ch.ldren, w.ro read
and listened to greedily 30 that when
the child Of 10 was sent with eyesight
restored to the College bourbon at,
taris he went ignorant, it is true OF
some things most young people know,
but yers1d in the ways Of particularly
bright and cheerful world, and with his
/ head stored with the fa Is,
faucIos and images ue had
made his own from hcarius
books read to him, when his reflective
and memmonie faculties yere his chic
resource anl Solae1 At ,ho college he
/ stayed two years, ha ing as form fc
.oWs two sous of Casimir beIayigne an
Alexandra Dumas, tie younger, wNC
te carried away the hrSt pri @
history and the first in mathematics. 1T
Holton house, estalo 4ian school
whl-h young Sala next went, he wa
equally successful At the public e.
animation n 1872 he amon@Tated 5ey-
oral pro lens in mathematics, played
upon the fiddle, recited an anacreonTC
ode, played The parts Of Brutus il
Julius Cesar Of william Tell in Ger
man Of &ganarolle in Molores "T
Aedicin Malgre Iui beside tak.p /.
subordinate parts IN "Oodjpus Tyra9
nus, and the AdelpAi of Tcren 6, ~
After his schooling years, ala 9ocan,
our pupil, and, at neces,tys callih.
was even when a youth a carl aturat, =
| draughtsman, Il photographer and an en-
graver kven the theatre claimed hi
services for a while -nominally as as
S.Stant to scene painter at the Princess,
london, but really as a general utility
man. 1t was not TIL 1850, that Sal.
entered the great literary field witt
much success. Prom the day TIA
charles Dickens published, in House
hold Words, his story, THE Key Of th
torld, a naw era Logan for the yount
man 1t was Dickens who encourage
MIN and especially urged his entranc
NO the Lists of journalism; and IL.
great noyels, WAS always his warn
triend.
Everybody knows how varied ha
been Saa's work, Us au essS yist not les
5 than as q journalist lie has toueho.
amuttituIe Of topics, and touched tA3h
all well. As lecturer Salls sgaueS
e has boen extraordinary Ho is as enter
tanning on the platform as in converse
lion, and no man in Ing.ani bette
knows how to talk, and to talk we'll
dis ser ices are in great demand N Eng
land Whether it be Literature or I'D
Y venture Sala has always something t
+ say worth hearing.