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Show Inunz Mn a Atithora. Kent w as dead when just a littlo over bis Unity fifth )cnr. bhelley wrote "(jnetii Mab" attwenty,nnd tbo"l'ro-inetheus tbo"l'ro-inetheus Unbound" nnd tbo "Ode to tlie West Wind" at twentyslx, llyron startled tho town with "Hnglltli I lards and Scotch ltoIrwer" at twenty-one, and at twinty-four "woko up and fouud lilmwlf faiuous" by tho publication of "Cbildo Harold." Hums wn but twenty sctcn when he was tho Hon of tho season in frllnbnrgh. Campbill lublUheil bl "Hiaiurvs of Hopu" at twtnty-twa Chittertou was ntt tight-i-cn when ho (In lilted his Ilfo'i work Tho freat tiinkesj-wire liiinKU wasramou wbeu little more than n jouth.and tin samel trueof tho bbakef.Maru of Trance, Victor Hugo; and Uoethe, by tho bye, was 1 nowu to all l'urupo at twenty-four bcott, ou the other band, was more lelscrely. Ho made no serious effort n on author till ho whs over thirty, nnd ho was oirr forty when "Wamlej wu KiMti to tho world) and Thuckcray alno was rerglug on tw o score beforo " auity l'ulr" establlahvt bis reputation. CrJtlo. |