The evening times., 1898-11-19
MEN OF MARK.

The recent death of the Hon. T. J.
Byrnes premier of Queensland, at the
early age of IS, draws attention to the re-
| markable number of young men who
reach high places at an age when in more
deliberate eDochs a man had scarcely
settled down to his career. Although
William Pitt the boy premier, has no RI
val, even in these days of rapid careers,
there are hundreds who achieve fame
and position within twenty years of leav-
ing their books at school or college. Mr..
Cecil Rhodes was treasurer general of
| Cape Colony at 81 and premier at 81, and
Sir Alfred Miner, one of the most bril-
liant of the younger Englishmen, was
chairman of the board of inland revenue
at 50 and at a few years over 40 holds
one of the most responsible posts in our
empire. The new Yiceroy of 2s1 million
people in India was a minister OF the
crown at 81. Mr.. Asquith. in spite of his
brilliant gifts started the race for fame
! slowly; still he was queens counsel at
! 49, and reached high cabinet rank at 10
| Lcrd Rosebery owes little to his rank
| that ne was in the ministry at a. and
! prime minister at i7, and Mir Arnold Nor
| ley, still on the hopeful side Of 80, was
| chief Liberal whip and secretary to the
| treasury at g.
Among the artists there are many men
VINO have made themselves famous in the
| ''thrties. Mr.. Alfred Giiber, the Queen 5
! favOrite sculptor, became an A. K. y. at
! thirty-three. and a full-blown academici-
! an at five years later. Prof HeTkomcr
was an associate at thirty and an acade-
mician at forty-one. Mr.. Solomon Solo
mon painted his magnificent picture,
! 'Cassandra," at twenty-siX; Mr.. OnslOW
! Ford, II. A, Ieaped into fame at about
! the same age; Luke Fiides painted the
grand and pathetic Casual Ward al
! thirty; Mr.. Frank Dicksee became an r.
| a. at thirty-eight thus equaling Mi
Alfred Gilberts and Mr.. Hamo Thorn
ycroft's records. In music Pietro Mas
cagni was twenty-seven when he woke tC
find that mis- "Cavaleria" had made him
famous: MIR. Hamish McCunn, the clever
young Scotch composer of over 100 songs
and operas, overtures and cantatas with
out number is still young man of thir-
~. and Sir Arthur Sullivan did some oi
his best work while in the twenties.
Marcoan. the inventor of wireless teleg
raphy. IS only twenty-three. and Edison
was little more than a boy when his name
| became known in two continents.
But IL is in the field of letters that youtf
claims the richest harvest. 1t is tht
not crowned before he enters the thirtie:
is in danger Of going uncrowned for tn,
rest of his life
Mr.. Anstey Guthrie was twenty-si'
when he wrote Vice Versa: Mr. jerome
was three years older when Three Mel
in a Boat" appeared. Mr.. Barrie wat
twenty-eght when Aud LIGHT IdyIls'
pointed the way TO fortune. Mir. Ride
Haggard wrote King Solomon's Mines
At thirty.
Mr.. Rudyard Kipling was barely Of ag
when he wrote Departmental Ditties.
and his plain Tales from the HIS ap
peared at twenty-five Mr.. Israel Zans
will did his best work in the Children .
the Ghetto" when ne was twenty-eisht
Mr.. II. c. Wells wrote the Time Ma
chine the pioneer of his popular novels
when he was twenty-nine Mr. Crockett
was three years over the thirty iimi
when The Sticket Minister" inspired min
to try fiction.
Mr.. Quiller Couch wrote Dead Man
Rock al twenty-four and Mr.. Morle!
Roberts had been through world of ad
ventures before he closed his twenties.