The Forrest City times., 1892-10-07
GREAT THINKERS.

The Age at Which Their Best Works
 Were Produced. St. Louis Globc- Democrat
 Poe wrote "The Raven" in his thirty sixth year.
 Owen Meredith published "Lucile" at twenty-nine.
 Shakespeare wrote his first play at about twenty-four.
 David is said to have written his first psalm at eighteen.
 Goldsmith finished "The Deserted Village" at forty-two.
 Thackeray was thirty-six when Van ity Fair appeared.
 Homer is said to have composed the 1liad after sixty.
 Solomon is said to have collected the Proverbs at fifty.
 John Bunyau finished the ''Pilgrim's Progress" at fifty.
 George Elliot was thirty nine when Adam Bede" was printed.
 Hannah More wrote "The Search After Happiness" at twenty eight
 Bryant was nineteen when made fa- nous by "Thanatopsis."
 According to tradition, Buddha be- gan his revelation at thirty-five.
 Burns wrote songs in childhood, and published some at sixteen.
 Lambs first printed poems came out when the author was twenty-two.
 The early Christian writers say Paul wrote his first epistle at forty-six.
 Ben Jonson was twenty-four when he wrote Every Man in His Humor."
 The Sketches by Boz" were printed by Dickens when he was twenty -four.
 "Jane Eyre" was the work of Char lotte Bronte when she was twenty-two. Wilkie Collins first novel, "Antoni- na" came out when he was thirty-six. Mrs. Southworth wrote "Retribu- tion," her first novel, at the age of twenty-five.
 Isaac Newton wrote the last of Nat ural Philosophy" when he was forty five.
 Bulwer-Lytton was twenty-nine when he printed "Ihe Last Days of Pompeii." Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote the "AutOcrat of the Breakfast Table" at fOrty-eight.
 When Victor Hugo WAS twenty he issued his first voluine-a collection of poems.
 Little Poems," the first work of Thomas Moore, appeared when he was 28.
 Hours of likeness" appeared when Byron was Is, his' Childe Harold''at 2S.
 William Wordsworth wrote "An Evening Walk" at 13, and the "Excur- sion" at A.
 According to tradition, Moses wrote the book of Job at 70 and finished the Law at l20.
 Alexander Pope was 45 years old when he wrote the immo rtal Essay on Man." and about 25 when he began his translation of the Iliad.
 The first volume of Indian tales from the pen of Cooper appeared wh en the anthor was 30.
 Jewish writers say that Isaiah wrote the famous ode on the fall of the King of Babylon at 52.
 Gray published his "Elegy" at 34. It is said to have occupied his time fer seven years.
 tNdCouidy WAS fl WIltU Uc D6SuU tuc brilliant fragment known as the His tory of England"
 Jules Verne was 35 before he turned d his attention to scientific fiction in Five Weeks in a Balloon
 At the age of forty one Milton is.u- ed the Paradise Lost" which had been in preparation for twenty years.
 Mrs. Heinans wrote poetry as soon as she could write at all. and publish cd her first volume at fourteen.
 John is said to have written the Cos pei which bears his name at sixty, and the book of Revelations at ninety
 The first volume of the Waverly series appeared when Scott was forty three. He published his first book, Ballads" at twenty-five.
 Cowper wrote to relieve the misery of ever-impending insanity, and was fifty-three when the Task" came from the press.
 Irving's "Knickerbocker's History of New York" was written when the author was twenty-six, his Life of Washington" at seventy-two.