. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . [iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiMiiiMinimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMi iiiiiMiiiiiiMnHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiMtiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiMiiiiiiiiiiinmi W^^A^iKr^^^cO^P^^^^^i>^Mj?iU^^ JOHN FISKE. DISTINGUISHED LECTURER AND T may be doubted whether even Macaulay exhibited more precoeiou?ability tlian did the man who for thirty years has held a foremostplace among the philosophers and historians of our country. Theboy who read Csesar and Rollin and
. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . [iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiMiiiMinimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMi iiiiiMiiiiiiMnHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiMtiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiMiiiiiiiiiiinmi W^^A^iKr^^^cO^P^^^^^i>^Mj?iU^^ JOHN FISKE. DISTINGUISHED LECTURER AND T may be doubted whether even Macaulay exhibited more precoeiou?ability tlian did the man who for thirty years has held a foremostplace among the philosophers and historians of our country. Theboy who read Csesar and Rollin and Josephus at seven, who trans-lated Greek at twelve by the aid of a dictionary which gave onlythe Latin equivalents of Greek words, who at seventeen had readthe whole of Virgil, Horace, Tacitus, Sallust, Suetonius, and much of Livy,Cicero, Ovid, Catullus, and Juvenal, and at the same time knew his mathematics upto and including much of the work of the sophomore year in college, could readthe Greek of Plato and Herodotus at sight, kept a diary in Spanish, and read German,French, Italian and Portuguese easily, surely this was one of the boys remarkable inthe history of the world. Not only was John Fiske able to work for twelve hoursa day and for twelve months in the year at his studies, but in spite of this strenuousap})lication he was able to maintain vigorous he
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