When They Wrote Their Books

A broader experience ií needed to compose a fuil prowu novel than to sketch a short story and thg great uov eüsts baveofteu essayecl their first elabórate fiction wben uo longer young. Scotc was more tiian 40 wben be publisbed the first of the Waverley novéis. Thackeray was not far frota 40 wben "Vanity Fair" was finisbed. George Eliot was almost 40 when "Adam Bode" oppeared. and Hawthorno %vas 46 when ha seutforth '"TheScarlet