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Show Youthtnl Prodigies;. ayot,tha greatest 'celebrities in "J9 gy very.earl evidence uf the WlUj far" which, thoy afterward be eworld famous. Indeed It Is al-Mlfeo al-Mlfeo say that every celebrity b a very elever childhood, for Wemcetau Instance o a reputed 4uf, it is noarly always tho oe thi Wwna haj betp able to dlnepver tho jt talftht struggling for xpreslnn. ehael Angelo was Mn Many prodigy '"sttraried crowd tn see tho works Jciueri when but? yi'ira nf Hg; re.Aits, when but 6; Sir Thomas "lencewas Iq great request as a palmar when he was but 10 old; and, Gainsborough wan fam-J'n. fam-J'n. 'Among musicians, Weber, and Schumann head the list of prodigies. Weber wrote his first when he- was li; Mozart toured Tf''ftwheu 18 was bu"fj "' 0; and Schumann published compositions composi-tions al the Fume age. The Imitative arts seem tn lend themselves more naturally nat-urally to Instinctive effort, but tho In-tellectual In-tellectual giants of llteraturx nlso afford af-ford a very repreontatlvn gathering of "Infitnt proitlgte." Macaulay at 8 wrote a compendium of uulversal his-tor; his-tor; Gociho's efforts attracted attrition attri-tion before ho wasCjVietor Hugo wrote a novel before he was 11, which was wqrthy oven his later reputation; Pope and Byron both wrote good versa when ruero boyss Ellzihnth Barrett Browning Brown-ing read Greek tit 8. and some of her lasting work was cojiposcd before she was 16. Women who have become f.iinnua have, In very many Instances, given considerable promise of their fuller talents In tLelr childhood, and among them Is the notable instance of Charlotte Bronte, who wrote poems, plays and eight novels before she was thirteen. |