Critical Age For Genius

Fifty-aix years seems to be a fata] age for people of genius. Among those who have died at t'hat age ma y be mentioned Dante, the ItaJian poet; Hugli Capet, king of France; Ilenry VIII., Icing of Engiand; Hen.ry IV., emperor of German3-; Paganioi, Italian violinist; Alexander Pope, English poet; George Sala, English oriëntalist; Marciis Aurelius, emperor of Rome; Frederiek I., king of Prus&ra; John Hancock, American statesman; Marie Louise, emprèss of France; Philip Masser.ger, English dramatist; Saladin, the great sultan of Egypt; Eobert Stephenson, English engineer; Scipio Africanus, Roman general; Helvetius, French philosopher and author; Henry II., the fir&t of the Plantagenet line; the eider Pliny, Roman naturalist and author; Juliius Ctesar; Charles Kingsley, English author; Juan Prim, Spanish general and statesman; Henry Knox, American rerolutionary general ; Thomas Mifflin, American patriot; Jlarryat, th-e novelist; George Whitefield, English founder of Calvinistic Methodism; Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, favorite of Queen Elizabeth; Joliann Casipar Spurzhelm, Germán physicinn and phrenologist,iand Frederick II., emperor of Germany.