Dr. Tucker has given us a very delightful book on genius and some very interesting sketches of a number of geniuses. The charm of the book resides in its intimate character, so that one feels in reading it almost as if he were having a conversation with the author or listening to him over the coffee cups. The last paragraph in the book gives an idea of the way in which the subject is treated:

“Genius knows not time, nor order, nor circumstance. Genius burns its candle at both ends. Genius, in order to create, creates itself; it subjugates, crushes, consumes other faculties. The only reward of genius is genius alone, indestructible, without heredity, without environment, without convention, inexplicable. Like radium, genius feeds upon itself interminably and emanates from itself unendingly, and, withal, it is so luminous that we must dim our eyes to behold it, or else we lose our sight.”

White