Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1920 — Had to Wait for Fame. [ARTICLE]

Had to Wait for Fame.

Dryden and Scott were not known aS authors until each was in his fortieth year. Thomas Carlyle was thir-ty-nine before he published “Sartor Resartus,” and forty-three when he produced his “French Revolution.** Richard Hooker was forty-one when his famous “Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity” was first published. Dr. Samuel Johnson was thirty-eight when he* announced the plan of his Dictionary of the English Language, and was for-ty-six when, after a heroic struggle egainst penury, he succeeded in pubIlshing the work.