of two writers one was brilliant but indolent; the other though

dull, industrious1. they set out for the goal of fame with equal

opportunities. before they died the brilliant one was detected in

seventy languages as the author of but two or three books of

fiction and poetry, while the other was honoured in the bureau of

statistics of his native land as the compiler of sixteen volumes of

tabulated2 information relating to the domestic hog3.