CHAPTER 4.
Points of Character.
A point highly illustrative of the character of Faraday now comes into view.

He gave an account of his discovery of Magneto-electricity in a letter to his friend M.Hachette, of Paris, who communicated the letter to the Academy of Sciences.

The letter was translated and published; and immediately afterwards two distinguished Italian philosophers took up the subject, made numerous experiments, and published their results before the complete memoirs of Faraday had met the public eye.

This evidently irritated him.

He reprinted the paper of the learned Italians in the 'Philosophical Magazine,' accompanied by sharp critical notes from himself.