Review of reviews and world's work . e men of sixty or the menof thirty? He inveighs against the idea ofProfessor Osier, that a man has done his workat sixty and i> thereaftera negligible writer makes reference to Mr. RobertMartin, of Liverpool, the inventor of the gas-stove, now in hi- eighty-seventh year, but stillhale and vigorous. Lord Strathcona may besaid to have begun his imperial renown at seventy-five; at ninety he i- at his office dailyat ten oclock, and after working diligentlyall day attends on an average three publicbanquets or dinner-partie- a week. Williamde Morg
Review of reviews and world's work . e men of sixty or the menof thirty? He inveighs against the idea ofProfessor Osier, that a man has done his workat sixty and i> thereaftera negligible writer makes reference to Mr. RobertMartin, of Liverpool, the inventor of the gas-stove, now in hi- eighty-seventh year, but stillhale and vigorous. Lord Strathcona may besaid to have begun his imperial renown at seventy-five; at ninety he i- at his office dailyat ten oclock, and after working diligentlyall day attends on an average three publicbanquets or dinner-partie- a week. Williamde Morgan was sixty-five before he thoughtof writing novels. Pierpont Morgan wassixty-five before he thought of his coltscheme of finance. Mr. Chamberlainsixty-five before h< sted tariff reform. Earl Roberts was nearly seventy when hewent out to retrieve disaster in South Gladstone said that if he had died atseventy fully half of his life-work would haveremained undone. Fifty j man at thirty-five was supposed to be middle-; 1. LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MOXTH !<)]
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