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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 174, 31 October 1941, Page 4

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WHEN Lindbergh flew to France—at just 25—everyone had to dwell upon his youth. He were a mere kid. Yet he was as old as Keats wast at death. He was a year older than Pitt was when he became prime minister of England. He was eight years older than Mendelssohn was when he composed his overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Chatterton finished at 18; Galois, the mathematician,, at 20. Jane Austen was writing one of her best novels a,t 21. Smollett was a physician, married and busy as a man of letters at 24. In round years, Shelley was through at 30; Schubert at 31; Andre Chenier at 32; Mozart at 35; Danton at 35; Bizet and Byron at 36. Moseley, the British scientist, had contributed his work and had given up his life in the Battle of Gallipoli at the age of 27. At 30, Kipling had published a dozen volumes or more, including several of his best.