The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-02
SUCCESSFUL YOUNG MEN.
In These Days Men of Promise Make
Their Mark Before the Age of 30.

In These Days Men of Promise Make
Their Mark Before the Age of 30.
From the London Daily Mail
The recent death of the Hon. T. ].
Byrnes. premier of Queensland. at the
early age of IS, draws attention u the
remarkable number of young men who
reach high places at an age when in more
deliberate epochs a man had scarcely set
tied down to his career.
Although William Pitt, the boy premier,
has no rival, even in these days of rapid
careers, there are hundreds who achieve
fame and position within twenty years
of leaving their books al school or col
lege.
Mr.. Cecil Rhodes was treasurer general
of Cape Colony at 81, and premier at 81
and Sir Alfred Miner, one of the most
brilliant of younger Englishmen, was
chairman of the board of inland. revenue
at 80. and at a few years over forty holds
one of the most responsible posts in our
empire.
was minister of the crown at 80. Mr..
Asquith, in spite of his brilliant gifts
started the race for fame slowly; still he
was a Queens counsel at 50, and reached
high cabinet rank at 40.
Lord Rosebery owes little to his rank
that he was in the ministry at "a, and
prime minister at AZ, and Mr.. Arnold Nor
ley, still on the hopeful side of 50, was
chief Liberal whip and secretary to the
treasury at 81.
Among artists there are many men who
have made themselves famous in the
sos" Mr. Alfred Gilbert, the Queens
favorite sculptor, became an a. R. A. at
SO, and full-blown Acadernician> five years
later. Prof. Herkomer was an associate
at 80 and an Acamedcian at A.
Mr.. Solomon Solomon painted his mag
nificent picture, "Cassandra" at 26; Mr..
Onslow Ford, r. A. leaped into fame at
about the same age; Luke Fndes painted
his grand and pathetic Casual Ward at
So Mr.. Frank Dicksee became an r. A.
at So, thus equaling Mr. Alfred Gilbert's
and Mr.. Hamo Thornycroft' S records.
In music Pietro Mascagni was q when
he woke to find that his "Cavalleria" had
made him famous; Mr. Hamish McCunn,
the clever young Scottish composer of
over 100 songs and operas, overtures and
cantatas without number, is still a young
man of go and Sir Arthur Sullivan did
some OF his best work while in the POS
Marconi the inventor of the wireless
biography, is only %, and Edison was lit
tie more than a boy when his name was
| first known in two continents.
But it is In the field of letters that
youth claims the richest harvest. 1t is
| the Paradise of Youth" and a man who
is not crowned before he enters the thir-
ties is in danger of going uncrowned for
the rest of his life.
Mr.. Anstey Guthrie was % when he
wrote Vice Versa" Mr.. Jerome was
three years older when Three Men in a
Boat appeared Mr.. Barrie was % when
"Auld LIGHT Idylls" pointed the way to
fortune. Mr. Rider Haggard wrote king
| So.omon's Mines" at 80
Mr.. Rudyard Kipling was barely of age
when he wrote Departmental Ditties, "
and his Plain Tales from the Hills APP
| peared at q. Mr.. Israel Zangwill did his
best work in the "Children of the Ghet-
! 10" when he was %. Mr. H. G. Wells
wrote the Time Machine" the pioneer
! of his popular novels when he was 80
Mr.. Crockett was three years over the 81
| limit when THE Stiekit Minister" inspired
him to try fiction.
Mr.. CUTLER Couch wrote Dead Mans
Rock" at "a. and Mr. Morley Roberts had
been through a world of adventures be.
fore he closed his "twenties.'