The Saint Paul globe., June 19, 1898, Page 14, Image 14

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TEHCHERS OF ST. PgUL SCHOOLS
Pedagogues Themselves Are Now Taking
Part in Shaping Educational Policy
WHAT TEACHERS MAY DO
A|ipi-'>ii:-i::(,- Tlint They Should Take
l'ail in tho Milking; of Courses
of Study, the Selection of Text
IloolvK. the PliiiiniiiK and Sanitn
-li.ni of School ltulldiiiK'M The
Stand riilcjiivo 1m Taking- in Thin
Matter Detasa oC the Teachers
of St. Paul.
Probably no phase of educational
Uork is bo sugrsestive and promising
Just now ;is tho part the teachers them
selves are taking in shaping education
al polity.
Thi> day Is soon coming when the
control of educational interests by
persons who are strangers to the scl
enoe of pedagogies will be a thing of
the past; when matters pertaining to
the administration of schools, such as
the serccttan and certtfaction of teach
ers, the making of courses of study,
the selection' of text books, the plan
ning and sanitation of school build-
Ings will he largely directed and con
trolled by the class who know most
such Interests, the teachers
themselves.
Chicago, in the work of its educa
tional commission, is furnishing a great
: lesson along this line.
I'nder the lead of Dr. Harper, presi
dent of Chicago university and of the
Chicago school board, the entire teach
ing force tif that city is organized into
workinE bodies solely for the improve
ment of xh" schools. The arrangement
of the councils under the constitution
has been such that no one class of
teachers may have the balance of
power.
All the teachers, supervisors, princi
pals ami superintendents meet upon
an equal basis. The only advantage
that any teacher may have is that of
influence for good.
The questions for discussion are to
he the vital subjects of Interest in the
Improvement of the schools in every
direction. The objective point of all
the work is to be the children of the
city of Chicago. The organization of
the councils is as follows: Central
council, high school councils, district
councils and school councils. The fac
ulty of each school constitutes a coun
cil. Questions may originate in any
council and may be decided therein
and he discussed and referred to any
other council. For instance, any school
council may send its questions to the
district council; the district council
to the high school or central council, or
vice versa. Thus a question started by
a school or any other council may be
discussed in turn by all the teachers
of the city, and the central council may
have a concensus of opinion of the
5,000 teachers of Chicago.
It will be readily understood that this
plan brings together the entire teach
ing corps, so that every member there
of may know the sentiment of all other
teachers, and the school authorities
may know the opinions of all persons
engaged in teaching in the city.
At a meeting of the normal school
council held Afay 20 the following ques
tions were presented for discussion:
1. How far should methods be imoosed by
authoritey upon teachers?. (To be referred to
district councils.)
2. Shculd the h!qk school modify its course I
of study in order to prepare pupils for the
normal school? (To be referred to the high
school council.)
The central council discussed at its meeting
held May 20 the following questions:
1. Manual training.
2. What can be done to bring the home in
terests and school Interest into more effec
tive relation?
3. What can we do to secure the more ef
fvtive treatment of truancy?
Should we use our influence in favor of
establishing parental schools?
The following questions have been referred j
to by the central council to the high, distrk-t
and school councils for discussion and report:
The Creative and Constructive Instincts and ;
Activities of Children—
1. To what extent have they real existence? j
What spontaneous and movements are signs j
of such instincts and activities?
2. What relation have they to the move
ment of civilization?
3. Is svstematlo cultivation desirable or
possible?
4. To what extent Is skilled direction nec
essary ?
5. What can the public schools do to de
velop these instincts?
6. What can be done in the ordinary
school roim. without great expense for ap
pliances and material?
7. In thu determination of what should be
done, shall aesthetic or practical ends pre
dominate? What shou'.d be the controlling
motive on the part of the pupil in construc
tive and creative work?
8. Should the purpose of work be the ex
pression of the individuality of the child, cr
the production of a certain material result;
1. c.. should the nature of the oh:ld aofcar
mlne the product?
9. Are these instincts and activities de
veloped by requiring the child to work alone;
prescribed lines to a prescribed end. ihe plan
and end of work being imposed by ihe tiaeh
er?
M. What constitutes fertilizing suggestion
—suggestion that shall not be a check to
activity, a blierht on creative Instincts?
11. What are the scope and limits of sug
gestion?
12. To what extent should the shiße of
physical development determine the charac
ter of educative work?
13. What kinds of work are most suitable
to arouse creative interest?
14. To what extent may the creative ard
constructive instincts and activities' be de
veloped in literary construction?
15. What must be the nature of the 'itor
ary exercises which shall stimulate and r.ot
repress these instincts and activities?
U. What relation has the manual to the
higher forms of creative activity?
17. What are their relative values?
li. If o.ooi> teachers and principals take
counsel together as to the best means of
stimulating and advancing the creative and
constructive instincts and activities of the
children. |. c .. of giving free scope to the
development of the child Into the creator
what will be the result?
Boston is also moving in the direc
tion of greater freedom and s-tronger
Influence of the teacher in guiding and
determining educaUonai matters. A
1)111 was introduced ifrto the last legis
lature, the strongest feature of which
was the provision of a "school faculty"
to consist of the superintendent as
president ex-offlcio, the inspectors, and
i ct less than thirty members who shall
be elected by teachers from their own
number. As far as possible all grades
cf instruction in 'the public sahools will
be represented in this faculty, wihich
is to consider all oducational matters
and m;:y report to the beard.
Th-'se movements are undoubtedly in
the direction of inprovomenit 'in all
phases of school work and -will do much
toward placing the teaching profession
upon a higher plane.
A PILE OF SAND.
How Little Fellovt-n Can Interest
Themselves at I»lay.
A pile of sand should form a part of
th£ furnishing- of the back yard of
tvery home so fortunate as to have
lule children to care for and entertain
It will furnish hours every day of
quiet fun. just suited to the long hot
days of summer, when it is so hard to
find employment for the little ones and
its educational value is so great as to
have engaged the pen of the great
psychologist and child student, Dr G
Rienley Hall, who has written "The
Story of a Sand Pile."
AT CHICAGO UNIVERSITY.
Ml«» Corcoran Writes Interestingly
of the D»fnK» There.
Miss Margaret Corcoran, trincipal of
the Douglass school, has worked during
the summer vacations in the Chicago
university, and 'has brought back to the
public which she serves, what can be
pained from that great center of knowl
edge and light.
She writes the following interesting
account of th a work there:
The Chicago university and the Columbian
exposition mark the fotir hundreth anniver
sary of the coming of civilization to this
Western land. The influence of both in ever
widening cycles down the ages ia immeas
urable.
This youngest university, generously en
dowed by its founders, spending nothing on
buildings, everything on professors and equip
ment, has secured a body of teachers who
"influence, inspire and dominate their age,
their contemporaries and posterity."
The university year is divided into four
terms of tweve weeks each — beginning Jan.
1, April 1, July 1, Oct. 1. Each term is di
vided into courses of six weeks each. Teach
ers taking work at tho university during the
summer may take six, eight or ten weeks,
and secure credit for work done, if working
for a degree.
The^e summer courses are offered in twen
ty-seven different departments. Those of spe
cial interest to a large body of teachers are
pedagogy, psychology, sociology, history, lit
erary science, mathematics.
Dr. Harper would inspire an ordinary mor
tal to do extraordinary things from hearing
him occasionally.
Dr. Dewey is head professor of philosophy
nnd pedagogy. Your views may differ from
his. but you feel that he has gathered all the
lines of knowledge into his hands and Is
driving tho oar of progress over new and
difficult roads at a triumphal rate of speed.
Associated with him are Prof. C. A. McMurry,
Prof. Davis, Prof. Tufts, Prof. Angell, Prof.
Bulkley, Supt. Kingsley. Mr. A. W. Moore,
Mr. Manney.
In connection with the pedagogical depart
ment, model and experimental schools are
maintained. The summer of '96 the pupil 3
in the model school ranged from six to ten
years. The beginners took Longfellow's
"Hiawatha"— that stcry of primitive life fitted
for the understanding of children. The first
day the teacher read to the children, Geo
graphy, history, science, reading, writ ng,
numbers, painting, drawing, modeling, sew
ing, eu'ting, centered about this poe-tn. The
proximity of Lake? Michigan, Jackson park,
containing the Field museum, and Washing
ton park enabled the teacher to have the
little ones observe the greater number of
tlrngs mentioned in the poem. At the close
of 9ix weeks the pupils recognized a remark
able number of words, and read promptly
and naturally sentences from the blackboard
giving the main facts in the story. The
teacher was a3 unusual as the plan and
methods.
The experimental school is so unique that
the practices in it would not be applicable
to common schools. It would need a lengthy
paper to explain its workings and principles.
Dr. Dewey f insatiable in his hunger for ex
perience to benefit, furthers this experiment
for more light on edueat ; ona.l problems.
The enthusiasm in this department will
carry you into that other prop of pe-dagagy
— sociology. There you will meet Dr. Small.
Allowing for the unintelligibiiity cf words
you will find on close examination that you
believe as he does that "every pont in eveiy
man's life is related to every point in every
other man's life." Assisting in the work are
Prof. Henderson, Prof. Zueblin, Prof. Starr
Thomas, and Mr. Henry W. Thurstou. 'You
can't study in these departments and remain
a helpless imitator. You must and will be
come an investigator of past experience and
present conditions In order to aid in the
greatest work in the world— the fitt ng of
man for complete living.
History Is not so valuable to us if It s"m
ply tells us what man has doneat any parti.u
lar time and does not make clear what he
has been. It Is not as a doer cf de da we
are interested in the part of man, but tfhat
knowledge and development came to h'm as
a result of his deeds. Poetry often tells rnora
of the character and life of the rac3 which
produced it than the most trustworthy his
tory.
Of the twenty-four professors in the re'ated
departments of history and literature, among
whom are Profs. Judson. Terry. MacClintoek,
Crowe, it is impossible to speak in this short
note of men who discern the highest and. fin
eat possibilities of life, who Interpret th 3
marvelous drama of thought, fe?lir?g and ac
tion to advance our mysterious and many
sided spirits in attaining self-knowltdge and
self-development.
Hamilton Mabie writes: "The training and
development of the human ' mind have de
pended so largely upon nature that no man can
be said to have really compassed life or com
prehended his own being who has failed to
come into conscious relation with this great
est of teachers."
The university evidently agrees with the
author of the above, as it offers cv r fifty
course* In the sciences.
Besides the regular courses offered, a seri s
of free lectures of exceptional merit are given
on afternoons or evenings, so that if you go
to study your favorite subject, you may be
able to take a lively interest in many sub
jects through the masterful presentation by
experts of the lateft and m^st unv>:sJ
phases of their subjects.
This school of research secures for the
summer quarter men of attainments from
other institutions cf learning in different
parts of the worifl. From Harvard an 1 L->
--land Stanford to the traditional halls of !eirn
i ing of England. Germany and Franc=>.
For the fortunate teacher able to meet ex
penses, the summer school Is a period of |
j growth, of intellectual compan:onshlD —a I
place to come into relation with things which
can nourish and the forces which can in
spire them to work out the',r lives with in
telligence, foresight, and a resolute adjust
ment to the best conditions, and iift rhe'r
work to a plane where its influence will radi
ate new energy to other lives.
AMONG THE TEACHERS.
President Northrop has hit upon an ercel
lent characterization of the mental and moral
pabulum of the schools of the past. He calls
It "bean diet."
He said in his address at the high school
commencement exercises in Minneapolis:
It is a very poor Idea of education which
says this study is better than that- there
fore we'll throw the last out. There are
studies which one does not directly use which
do more in the way of culture than ari'h
metic ever did. I don't like to see a courseof
s.ndy trimmed down until everything, that
tends to culture is left out. Beans ar- the
most nutritious article of food, but ~ who
w^nts an eternal bean diet?"
The charter of the city of St. Paul has
been so persistently quoted as responsible
t« >, 9 ° »w ny ,, inscru tible doings affecting
teachers that they have come to regard It as
ranking in majesty and power with Magna
mwV* J s but natural that the y snou '-a
question why one provision of it can be for
?hif r i m th years - "Elected with impunity
h^ i i, i T/ hlch declares that teachers
shall be elected not later than the 15th of
June. To say nothing of the legality of the
proceeding, it must appeal to every right
to defav C R tiZe , n " ' S a Sross fnjusuJa
to delay so Important a matter until after
the c ostng of the schools. If there is another
city in the country which treats its teachers
rac{ h orou7h y tro%7b^n b oYe lad t0 h ™ *"
! professional standard by the discussion of
! pedagogical subjects, the study of narlia
rnentary law and such other subjects SS tha
federation may deem best; the promotion of I
social spirit and the securing to teacher-, all
entitled!" 8 "* benefitS to Whtte™ £c
Such federations of grade teachers Tmv«
elected officers as follows'" t. federatin
Flint; vice president Mm Cih£n« dent - ¥ lsa
sS C uni^ G ent;r? a^/ n 4^ p t^ Jefferson
teachers very, hand-romely nt i? pal and
Wednesday afternoon, June 16 A?f home
novel and original games two Jt* eT sonle
presented, the first a very bealitifni Wcro
Miss Maher; the second a n' '100l Oon ', to
bon-bon box, to Miss Howard T ht e °" top
a beautiful spread of Ice cream ♦" came
e^-|y^ ue rMr, b €^ pI S b r
cKfn^L^er.^ A^^vs& <-
The closing exercises of the A s T Q fr«
ggrmat Mr ar a as
I Mrs. C. R. Groff is president of th« Jeffw-
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE^ SUNDAY— JUNE 19, 1333.
■on School union, and has always been a loyal
good friend to teachers and pupils.
I'KRSONAIi
Mtas Nellie Walton Ford's little primary
classic, "Nt&ture'a Bywaiye," is meeting- •with
unexampled success, having been adopted ps
regular or supplementary reading by upwards
of one hundred and seventy-live cities and
towns. Including Brooklyn, Philadelphia, San
Francisco and Chicago.
This is not only In the highest degree com
plimentary to Its author, but is an endorse
ment of the methods in vogue in our school,
since the matter and method of tho book were
worked out by Miss Ford in her own school
room in the Irving school.
"All the Year Round," the series of na
ture readers, written by Miss F. F. Strong,
of the Teachers' Training school, and illus
trated by MI3S Gertrude A. Stoker, super
visor of drawing in our grade schools, la also
winning its way rapidly, having been adopted
* short time since by the Chicago school
Board as supplementary reading in the
schools of tliat city. Miss Strong has been
asked by the publishing firm of Glnn & Co.,
to write a monograph on nature study.
Miss Mnrgaret Corcoran, principal of the
Douglass school, will attend the National
Educational association at Washington, D. C.
Chicago university.
Miss J. Kenny and Miss R. Morlney, of the
Douglass school, exnect to do some, work at
Chicago university during the vacation
Miss E. Callahan, M:s3 L. A. BtKtrich, and
Miss M. A. Emerson will attend the sum
mer school at the University of Minnesota
during August.
WHITE BEAR.
The Alpha Card club, of St. Paul, attended
the hop at Raraaley pavllllon last Saturday
night. The party consisted of the Misers Eva
Halderman, Grace Halloway, Florence Ives,
Jessie Arey, Mabel Vernon. Messr3. Cliff OM-
Al Foster, George Shaw, Harry Barlow!
Elmer Oakes and Hugh Arey.
A party of young people attended "Shenan
doah at the Grand opera hous^ Friday
evening. The party consisted of Tho Mis es
Pearle Halllday, Anna Davis. Mamie O'Nsll
Messrs. Earlc McElroy, Emery Thompson
and Joe Cayon. The young people were
chaperoned by Mrs.' W. B. Thompson.
Miss Lucy Bartles gave a luncheon Thurs
day. The guests were the Misses Kelly, of
St. Paul; the Misses Lovejoy, of Minneapolis:
Miss Krenshaw, of Fargo, and Miss Angeline,
of Crookston. The dining room was artistical
ly decorat-d with pink marguerites and tha
parlor with roses, and ca-pe jessamine.
At the Williams house: A. J. Bloom An
drew Linden, A. J. Prins, H. Stoltz, G W
G-olts, Theresa Lyons, G. C. Morris, of St
Paul; C. H. Null, M. D.; S. Reaney, Van
Compen, of Minneapolis, and Mr. Stevens of
Hamline.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Wright and sotf. of St.
Louis; Mrs. E. C. Burke, of St. Paul, and
Miss L. E. Tramm, of Northfleld, were guests
c.t Raraaley villa last week;
Mrs. Pierce, of Clarke avenue, entertalnsd
her euchre club from St. Paul this week.
The house was beautifully decorated wl:h
ferns and roses.
The ice cream festival given at the home ol
Mrs. Baldwin last Tuesday evening was a
success, and all enjoyed themselves who at
tended.
Mrs. Kanouse, who has been visiting her
daughter, Mrs. Guy Holliday, at New Paynes
ville, returned to her home at White Bear
Friday.
Dr. and Mrs. Pickler, of Minne
apolis, will spend Sunday at We're Here cot
tage, tho guests of Mr. and Mrs. Bcnst'ed.
Miss Lucy San'born returned from school in
Duluth Thursday, and Is with her parents.
Gen. and Mrs. Sanborn. at White Bear.
Mrs. C. R. Howard and two children, of
Anamosa. 10.. are the guest 3cf Mrs. Howard's
slater. Mrs. O. L. Perfect, at Bald Eagle,
George W. Wishard and family, of Indan
apolis. Ind.. will be at Lake Side next week,
where they will spend the summer.
Mm. R. H. Cordoza and children and Eu
gene Solomon, of Mahtomedi. visited Mrs. G.
Thane at Lake Side Saturday.
Miss Myra Hollister, who has been the
guest of Mis 3 Kate Mou!d?r, returned to h.2r
home in Austin last Monday,
Mr. and Mrs. Emil Zimmerman and little
daughter are occupying one of the Leip cot
tages, at Lake Wood park.
Mrs. A. Riohter, of Salt Lake City, snd Mrs.
A. C. Randal, of -Minneapolis, are the guests
of Mrs. Emil Zimmerman.
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Fogg, of Summit ave
nue, spent Sun-day with Mr. and Mrs. W. 4.
Miller, of Bald Eagle.
Mrs. Williams, daughter and niece left ior
Duluth Thursday. They will make a vl3it
of a couple of weeks.
Joseph Kababas gave a very .interesting
lecture on Peraia Thursday evening at the
Presbyterian church.
Mrs. Frank Larrabee, of Minneapolis, has
been the guest of Mrs. B. F. Ellison at Bald-
Eagle the past week.
Mr. Cornish and family, of St. Paul, hare 1
taken the Abbott cottage, mar Tenth street,
for the season.
'Mrs. Dumond and son, Phlneas, and Guv-
Kemp, of Sault Ste Marie, are guests at the
Pino cottage.
Miss Elizabeth Bissell. of Redwood Fails,
spent several days of the past week with Miss
Ida Gundlach.
A. D. Trempe and Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Mc-
Millan and daughters spent Saturday at the
Pino cottage.
TJri Lamprey and family, or St Paul, are
occupying one of the cottages at the Will
iams house. '
R. B. C. Bement and family and Mrs. Stur
gis, of St. Paul, are on Manltou island for
the summer.
Mrs. David Hanna will spend the summer
with her mother, Mrs. John Williby at St.
Paul Park.
Capt. Hardecker, and 'Mr. Hardecker, of the
Northern Pacific, are at the Benson ho 1 el
Bald Eagle.
'Miss Herzog, of Lake Wood park, spent
several days last week with friends in Min
neapolis.
Mrß. A. Rotert and Mrs. D. Hickey of St.
Paul, were guests of Mrs. E. A. Plough
Thursday.
Mrs. W. F. Kyle, of St. Paul, visited her
mother, Mrs. M. E. Snell, at Park place 1 st
Monday. ■ •
The Misses Lucy Leppen, Lilly Lepp n
and McDonald were. guests at Albatros oa.no
Sunday.
The Misses Perfect, of St. Paul, are visiting
their sister, Mrs. O. L. Perfect, at Bald
Eagle.
Mrs. O'Grady and daughter Nellie and
graddaughter Violet Greek are gussts at Park
i Place.
Mrs. Oscar Lehmicke and son, Rupert, spent
several days of the past week in Still
water.
Miss Mamie O'Nell spent TueEday and
Wednesday with Mrs. Whitford in Minnp
apolis. •
Mr. and Mrs. Willam Burke, of Dayton ave
nue, are occupying their cottaga at Cot a~e
park.
Miss Lulu Shandrew. of Ashland avrnue
i will spend Sunday with Mrs. Newell Clapp!
Miss Mamio Conroy, who has been visiting
j in Withers, returned to the lake Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Lyons, of St. Paul, are spend-
I ing the summer at the Donaldson cottage.
The Misses Dousman and Shepard Stone are
guests at the Bement cottage this week.
. Mr. Griggs and family, of Grlggs. Cooper
& Co.. will occupy the Hanna cottage.
Dr. Hubbard, of Faribault, was the guest
of Weston L. Moulder last Wednesday.
Miss Ruby Butcher, of St. Paul, spent the
past week with Miss Mildred Cooper.
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. McGuire, of Tenth street
St. Paul, are at the lake for the spason.
Mrs. Thomas Hanna will visit her daugh
ter, Mrs. Murray, at Lakeland. Minn.
Mrs. H. O'Xeill and daughter Mamie
will leave for Yellowstone park soon.
Herbert Gooch, of St. Paul, visited Emory
Ttompson at Bald Eagle last week.
Miss Georgia Johnson and Arlow Wa'son
will spend Sunday at the lake.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mortin were guests
at the Pierce cottage Sunday.
Mr. Donnelly, o£ St. Paul, spent Saturday
and Sunday at Ramaley villa.
Mrs. Van and daughter will occupy one of
tha Lup cottages this season.
Mr. and Mrs. Jensen and family are In
their cottage at Cottage park.
Miss Eunice McMlchael will spend Sunday
with Miss Mildred Cooper.
Roy Castner, of St. Paul, was the guest of
Edward Gundlach Sunday. b
Mrs. Allan and daughter Jessamine of Min
neapolis, are at Park Place.
Miss Christine Forsell spent several day thli
week at Russel beach.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Jewett are in their
home at Cottage Park.
Laura Bement has returned from the Fast
and is on the island.
Dr. Haas, of St. Paul, is in one of the Will
lams House cottages.
Mrs. Rogers and family moved into their
island home Friday.
• Nsr -* a ? [ l^ rS n W - R Snow> of Kent street
are at White Bear. '
Mrs. Sheetoan, of St. Paul, visited Mm
Cornish this week. ea jVlrs -
Mr. and Mrs. Newell Clapp are at the lake
for the summer. c
Miss Angeline, of Crookston, is visltine Mio..
Bartles this week. 6 3
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Mrs. A. E. Leaman spent Friday at Russell
beach.
Joaeph R. Welde was at Lup'g Vi:ia Friday
Cooper Fulton Is visiting in Faribault.
LITERATURE OF TODA*
DAUDET'S LAST NOVEL, "HEAD
• OF THE FAMILY"
"The Jndsre," by Mrs. Ella W. Peat
tie—"The Standard Bearer," by
S. It. Crorkclt— "Ai Revolutlon
ary Love Story," by Ellen Olney
Kirk x«< e « of Jane Books and
Magazine*.
n
Under ths title of "The Head of the
Family," the Pu;tnams publish a trans
lation of Daudet's last novel, "Le
Soutien deldFaityile." The illustrations
are by Marchetti, and the book is
prefaced wlfh a^crltical sketch by Prof.
Adolphe Cohn. of Columbia. Daudet's
last novel would command interest
from the fAt^that it is. the final work
of hia peas Mid the publishers have
taken painsTto-Tntroduce it fittingly to
an American audience, but it is to be
doubted if it receives any very warm
reception. *he^trutth is, as Prof. Cohn
suggests in^hisf just and interesting es
say, that there' were two Daudeits. The
one was mpoej, a man of insight,
imagination, of exquisite taste. This
the Daudfet who wrote "Lattres da
Mon Moulin,", and the "Contes de
I.undi." The other Daudet was a real
ist, to whom "the everyday events that
he came .across wfere so interesting
that he at tiroes hardly dared to -alter
them when ir-Jtrcxfueing them into tais i
books." "He has, perhaps, transferred
bodily into his writings more, actual
events related' in the newspapers, in
the court house or in society than any
other writer of the present age; of
some of his novels one hardly dares
say they are "works "of fiction;' their
characters arejirtn and worn en. of our
time; we know their names, and they
do in the book almost exactly what
they have done in real life:"
"While it may be that life and its
casual incidents were sacred to Dau
det because of ths reality of them,
what is certain Is that, while faith
fully transcribing these incidents, he i
often fails to make the reader feel the
sacredness, or. even the importance, of
the actualities he prizes so highly. As
a result, the atmosphere of his books
is not that of, great . novels. It might
almost be said* t'hkt the seal of a great
novel, without which none is genuine,
is the impression it gives the reader of
the value, the importance of the life
it depicts. This impression la crowd
ed out in Daudet's long stories, and
therefore his final fame will not de
pend upon them, but upon his exquisite
contes, in which, on the other hand,
it is the bulky, distasteful and un
necessary mass of fact and detail that
gets crowded out.
The stories, are by their plan too
short to admit of the author's favorite
tampering with the events of reality.
They are of . his imagination all com
pact, and the result is tenderness,
grace, beauty, to a degree he nowliere
else achieves. •■■ >
While "Ttte Head of the Family" is
not open to the aoeusat+on of being as
much overladen -with fact as "The Na
bob," for instance, it still is somewhat
dry and har^lv in treatment. It is the
story of .the' two sons of a suicide, a
man who had fulled in business and
killed himseff - wihen he saw disgrace
before him. For the elder son, the
clever oce, who is to be the supiport
and redemption of the family, as they
think, that ,;farrrily makes enormous
sacrifices. He-mHiSt be kept at , school,
given a profession, allowed to go into
society, provided with a separate
apart-men^.jvhije his younger brother
be-oomes aV 7 jprac|ical electrician and
turns over 'Ste learnings' cheerfully for
the use, of ■ Blotter; sister and brother.
The elder fypotWr, Raymond, taking
every^in^i^/givrn.? nothing, regards
himself as put t3p?&i and weighed down:
by the burden, pf the family, who are
in reality; '.npihnldit»& him and suffering
from hiS;i«sri-atltUiiie and extravagance.
With #tKSP a'"th©rae the book should
be a mor.£"*n<oying one than it Is. Ray
mond's and Anto
nln > a-.greTf«roua..«elf-forgetfulness should j
not leave the 'reader cold, as they do.
Somehow the magic touch is lacking. |
But the charm which is wanting to the
main incidents of the tale attaches it
self to some of the less, and in the un
likely and engaging romance of D-ina,
the daughter of the family, will be
found all the delicacy, grace and fan
cy which are lacking elsewhere. The
reader is left to wonder if it is not the
very improbability of little Dina's love
story that caused Daudet to lavidh on
the incident all his resources of del- i
icatg, feeling and expression, and if,
after all, in spite of fame and fortune, I
he is not an artist who missed his vo- i
cation, in that he insisted upon mak- j
ing himself a realist in spite of a
well defined '!ea}l" to romance.
"The Head of the Family." by A. Daudet.
$1.50. G. P. Putnam's Sons. For sale by
the St. Paul 'Book and Statonery com
pany.
"The Judge."
"The Judge" Is a detective story that
Mrs. Ella W. Peattie wrote many years
ago for a prize competition of some
newspaper — the Detroit Fress Press If
we are not mistaken. Rand, McNally
& Co. have just republished it in book
form with no indication that it is not
Mrs. Peattle's latest work. The natural
assumption of the reader would be that
it was subsequent in date to the
pleasant volumes of stories — "A Moun
tain Woman" and "Pippins and
Cheese"— which bave lately made their
author well known as a short-story
writer. Thi^ssumption is a little un
just to Mrs^ Peattie, who probably
would not write the story now In just
the way that .she did several years ago.
There are &y good many crudities of
style and ffipught that her maturpr
taste would b? sure to reject. When It
Is once understood, however, that "The
Judge" does not, represent Mrs. Peat
tie's present attainments as a novelist
the reader may fery well enjoy it for
just what it is— a stirring detective
story, carelesslyvwritten, but full of in
cident, interest tfnd "eto." It is much
better wortlT"rea§lng than nine-tenths
of the romances of war and love in the
middle ages which are still passing
popular, an<nt will be found to serve
the same end of diversion.
"The Judge" by Ella W. Peattie. $1.50.
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co. For sale
by the St. Paul Book and Stationery com
pany.
"The Standard Bearer."
Mr. Crockett, we have been told, is
wont to arise in the morning early and
rattle off four or five thousand words
of Jgie novel upon which he is engaged
upon the typewriter before his break
fast. At this rate he wrote "The
Standard Bearer" In less than three
weeks. For such a hasty performance—
and done upon an empty stomach, too—
it is quite creditable. But this is the
utmost that can be said of the book It
is a tale of Covenanting times in Scot
land, but of the times after the heat
of persecution had somewhat waned
There is not much bloodshed In the
book, and what there is- is not wildly
exciting. The love story, too, lacks the
piquancy which we have come to de
mand as a right from the love tales
of Mr. Crockett's telling. The book con
tains one character of whom the reader
would have Veea^pleased to hear more.
Alexander-Jgnita of Drumglass is a
young womalf of^ome "snap," and had
she been the'herOjne of the tale instead
of the stiff arid rather bombastic Mary
Gordon, it wouUd have been crisper
reading. Tfee glergyman-hero is not
well defined^ and. never engages the
reader's interest except in the early
chapters wherrin he is occupied in
convoying Ht» rkt'e daughter of the
Gordons to h^- aftil'scare under thrill-
ing circumstances. On the whole, if
Mr. Crockett cannot Rive us hotter love
and fiercer fighting, he is going to fail
to command the attention of his aud
ience. The newspapers are much more
interesting just now than "The Stand
ard Bearer."
"The Standard Bearer." by S. R. Crockett.
$1.50. D. Apnleton & Co. For sale by tha
St. Paul Book and Stationery company.
••A Revolutionary Love Story.
The little volume entitled "A Revolu
tionary Love Story," by Ellen Olney
Kirk, contains two short stories from
the pen of the well-known novelist. The
title story Is apparently a true tale of
Revolutionary times; the other is an
eld-fashioned Rngllsh story. Both are
wiitten in the manner of IS3O, and there
is nothing about them which in the
least suggests Mrs. Kirk's ordinary
brightness, vivacity and insight. They
migiht — and what more damning thing
can the critic .say? — have appeared in
the Pal! Mall- Magazine or the English
Illustrated! Perhaps they were written
I a great many years ago, before the
author had acquired her present ma
turity and Insight. It Is to be hoped
so, for if of rec-.-nt origin they would
mark an amount of decadence in the
work of a graceful and original writer
which It would truly be painful to
contemplate.
"A Revolutionary Love Stony,"' by Rllen
Olney Kirk. H. S. Stone & Co. Chicago.
$1.25. For sale by the St: Paul Book and
Stationery company.
Newspaper people out of employment seem
to be numerous In the Klondike. Perhaps our
special writers will go there. Joaquin Mill r
sends to The Land o£ Sunshine a rather ainua
\ ing account of- some of them.
"We are fortunate in having fine neigh
bors," he says; "newspaper men and arcjsts
from the great Eastern cities, and we are
entertained and instructed. Men do not play
cards here as they did in California. But I
there are newspaper mon and newspaper m=n.
The camp is overrun with homelsss fellows
going up and down claiming to Be working
for this paper or that. They are too worth
less to provide supplies and too lazy to build
cabins and keep them In order. They are. a
numerous nuisance here. There were three
"women of this sort who used to go up and
down the creek, booted to the thighs and
all girded and plumed Hk9 Jack the Giant
Killer, but they, found other business. One
|is a good cook for -a good company of miners,
I one Is. kicking high at a higher salary in a
dance hall, and one has got married a t;ma
or two. Would that the other newspaper
' tramps would find something better to do
than 'cousining' around from one mining
camp to another. I say this not only because
.it is. right,, but because the miners liave
asked me to say it. No wan is a real man
who shirks the task of packing his load over
the pass, where he can have every alternate
sack of flour for packing it over, and other
things In like way; or at least could last
sea. He may be talented and he may be tol
erated, but he is at the same time despised."
There Is another account of a visit to their
cabin made by a newspaper woman:
"Life is cot a bit monotonous in a Klondike
cabin, much as you might imagine it. All
sorts of people call, of all sexes and conditions;
more women than you would think; good wo
men, bright and beautiful, with heskhrSl
color from brisk walks in the keen cold. One
woman who sat watching Kreling, to his great
annoyance, as he cooked, said, 'N. G. ! It
would kill me to eat that.' He lcoked at her
a moment and then salti very seriously, 'No.
madam, it would not kill you. It-might cripple
you for life, but.it would not kill you. How
ever, I wish you no harm, and you shall not
even be crippled.' And with great gravity
and- deliberation he sat only two plates. Then
she left."— The Chapbook.
Five or six years ago most of our Ameri
can .colleges began-, to make a reasonable
change In the forms of their graduation ex
ercises on commencement day, and In many of
them now little trace remains of the. o'.d-fash
ioned and tedious ceremonial, lasting often
through an entire day, and consuming the
endurance of the participants as wejl as that'
of the auditors. ■ ' The aesthetic and sensible
Instincts of American women have protected
the students at Vassar, Wellesley, and Smith
from such unattractive, wearisome, and profit
less proceedings, and nothing of the kind
could we-il surpass In artistic Impressiveness
the exercises and .customs In vogue, on class
and graduation day at these Institutions.
Many of the unique, and beautiful ceremonies,
celebrated durtng this season at our colleges
for women are Illustrated in Harper's Bazar
for June 11,. and it may easily be imagined
that this striking series of pictures, r&D.-o
duced from photographs, makes a particu
larly attractive page.
Eric Mackay, the poet, died in London on j
the first of this month in the forty-seventh !
| year of hia age. He was the son of Charles
I Mackay, also a poet, and Misa Made Corelll
was his adopted sister. Mr. Mackay will be
best remembered as the author of "The Lova
Letters of a Violinist," though he wrote a
number of other books, most of them filled
with poems dedicated to love.— The Critic
Prof. Charles Eliot Norton Is not a favorite,
for the moment, or more would have b?en
said of his retirement from the acf.va posi
tion of lecturer on the Fine Arts at Harvard,
i Only those who know Harvard realize what
| this means to the university, and through
i its graduates to the outside world, tt is
perhaps too much to say that Prof. Norton
has been the dominant influence in Cam
j bridge; the place is too big for that. Hut
for many years he has come nearer than any
other single personality to embodying tha
many curious qualities which we call vague
ly the "Harvard spirit." One. never felt
quite sure whether Prof. Norton influenced
the university or whether it was that by a
wonderful sensitiveness he had come to ba
the spirit of the university made concrete.
Objections to such broad generalizations as
this will be made by every man who has
lived in Cambridge. Part of Harvard's in
dependence consists in each man having h:s
idea, of what Harvard really Is; and rarely
did any one agree thoroughly with Prof. Nor
ton. He has been called by every class un-
American, reactionary, a kind of Ru?kin
manque. Hundreds of men took his courses,
in Fine Arts 111. and IV., which were r.s
tensibly on--the history of ancient and me
diaeval art, without ever consciously listen
ing to what was said. But the lecturf s would
not keep inside the lecture room. They were
in the whole atmosphere of the place; they
formed a kind of background to which the
new student learned to fit his life. A kind
of mental aristocracy, a fastidiousness, an
assumption that beauty and delicacy were
things it was not effeminate to love, a v g
orous and unyielding independence of judg
ment, a democracy of feeling which com9s
rather from a feeling that there are inequali
ties that can be bridged than from any con
viction of equality, an emphasis constantly
laid on manners, with the idea that In the
end this meant morals as well— all these wsra
various phases of thought which as found in
the Harvard undergraduate were directly
traceable to Prof. Norton. They tak a great
deal about the "atmosphere" of Harvard. It
can never be quite the same without Flna
Arts 111. and IV.— The Chapbook.
Every citizen, mindful of our welfare and
national affairs, will read with especial Inter
est two articles In the July number of Harp
er's Magazine: "The People and Their Gov
ernment," by Henry Loomls Nelson, and
"The Middle West's New Era," by Charles
■M. Harger. The observations of an American
In Eastern Siberia are recounted in a
copiously illustrated paper by Stephen Bonsai,
and the opening article, also reminiscent of
Eastern travel, is a story, "A Prince of
Georgia," by Julian Ralph. The other at
tractive features of the number ore "Notes
on Journalism," by G. W. Smalley; "New
Words and Old," by Brander Matthews; and
"The Ethics of a Corrida," a description of
the national sport or Spain, by Lucia Purdy.
In addition to Mr. Ralph's story, the fiction
includes tales by William McLennan, Fred
| eric Remington, 'Margaret Sutton Brlscoe and
George Hlbbard. Further instalments appear
of Mr. Merrlman's brilliant serial, "Roden's
Corner.y *|id of Margaret Deland's "Old
Chester Tales."
The London Telegraph lately devoted a col
umn of editorial discourse to a suggestion of
Mr. James Bryce that tho British public wants
cheaper books, and that if the publishers
would supply that want the habit of reading
books would be stimulated and the business
of the publishers increased. Mr. Bryce's ide"a
seems to have been that only by the cheapen
ing of .books was it possible to meet the
formidable competition of the magizines and
newspapers. The Telegraph Is by no means
ready to admit the expediency or effectuality
of this method of cure. As to British readers,
it says that "while a leisurely and content
ed class who buy books haa not increased
in number, the large chaotic and indetermi
nate class bred by the board schools and
taught to read by expeditious methods have
practically decided that they do not want
books." It finds that the number of British
readers who read literary work is relatively
small, and that the great mass of the reading
population is quite content with sixpenny
magazines and newspapers. It notes the
familiar fact that he circulating libraries are
the mainstay of the British publishers of good
books, and it doubts U the Mia of such book*
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could bo material Ly increased by. lowering
the price of /them. Obstacles to reductipn of
price it finds In many considerations that the
publishers have to regard, and in particular
In the cost of, advertising and the large ray
altles paid to successful authors. Then *;-en
in the caso of novels, the trade in which con
stitutes the most important part of the ln.o!£
business, the publisher haa no assurance that
a reduction of price will be followed by a
proportionate increase of distribution. If you
appeal to a particular class, says the Tele
graph, it is always doubtful whether you will
widen your appeal by lowering your price.
Many and mank abook haa sold fairly well
for twelve shillings and not a whit better
for being reduced to five or six shillings.
Book reading, it adds, is subject nowadays
to the competition of a much greater variety
of entertainments than .In earlier times.
Theaters, concerts, and' lectures abountd more
than of your. Ay t and so do bicycles and
all sorts of out-dqpf sports, but yet the great
competitors of books seem to be the news
papers and the periodicals.
It is not held that the demand for bcoka la
falling off, but only, apparently, that it
does not increase in proportion to the In
creased number of readers. It seems to be
the Telegraph's opinion that that desired in
crease may not be trusted to follow a re
duction in the price of new books, and that
it is by no means clear that a lowering of
prices is the publishers' best policy.—Harp
er's Weekly. ...
A new edition of the well-known "Saints
bury Balzac" is the latest announcement.
The great popularity of this work has in
duced Messrs. Croecup & Sterling company.
New York, In conjunction with the Enjrlish
publishers, Messrs. J. M. Dent & Co.. to issue
an authorized edition complete in twenty vol
umes.
The edition will be printed upon a beautiful
Dickinson paper of extremely light weight,
similar to that used In the "Temple Classics,"
and illustrated with full-page etchings from
the original plates.
Several volumes of this edition, including
Prof. Salntsbury's invaluable Introductions,
will be copyrighted.
A special introductory, price Is made for the
first Importation.
Elmwood is saved, and the home of James
Russell Lowell will be turned into a memo
rial park. The enthusiastic men and women
who had the matter in hand had to raise a
good many thousand dollars within a given
-time, and the money came in so slowly that
they were in despair; but now they have the
full amount and a little over.— The Critic.
Felix Gras' new romance, ''The Terror." is
Bald to picture the adventures of an "Aristo
crat" in the French revolution. Some char
acters reappear who will be recognized by
the many readers of M. Gras' successful
"Reds of the Midi." "The Terror" will be
..published immediately,- by D. AppJeton& Co.
Admiral Dewey's Religion.— lt will take Ad
miral Dewey the rest of his life to catch up
with his own reputation and Inform himself
of what has come to be known about him at
home since that May morning when he be
came famous before breakfast. Every possi
ble theory about his ancestry, habits, and
state of mind seems to have been offered
during the past month to the acceptance of
hi 3 countrymen. His religious preferences,
for one thing, have been the subject of sev
eral dissertations and ingenious hypotluses.
It has been averred that his mother was a
Jewess, and that the best materials in him
were Jewish. It has also been confidently as
serted that he is a Roman Catholic. The
Buffalo Commercial has printed a letter
•which seems conclusive as to his religious
affiliations. It is from Mr. Lewis, rector of
Chrict church in Montpelier, Vt., who says
he is authorized by the Hon. Charles Dewey,
of Montpelier, to say that the admiral is a
loyal communicant of the Protestant Episco
pal church.
The admiral's politics have been as much
discussed as his religion, with the result of
a failure to discover that he has any poli
tics. But, after all, if he doesn't know
whether he is a Democrat or a Republican,
h« is no worse off than, many thousands of
his countrymen ashore.— Harper's Weekiy.
The Century Magazinze has arranged for a
series of articles on the present war, some
what in the manner of its famous "Battles
and Leaders of the Civil War." The series
will be entitled, "Battles and Leaders. Places
and Problems of the Spanish-American
War." and a number of Important articles
are already promised for it.
Miss Blanche Sully, who died in Philadel
phia recently at the age of 84, was the daugh
ter of the portrait-painter, Thomas Sully.
When she was a young girl, Miss Sully posed
in the robes of Queen Victoria for a "por
trait made by her father for the St. George's
Society of Philadelphia. The queen sat for
the face, but to sit for the costume was tire
some and unnecessary. — The Critic.
In the mind of a layman, gold lace and
shoulder straps are so invariably associated
with officers of the navy, that it is dlfllcult
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to realize that naval uniforms are an innova
tion of the present century. In his memoirs
shortly to be published by Harper & Broth
ers. Rear Admiral Franklin teUs many curi
ous anecdotes on this subject of the days
when the costumes of our land and sea forces
were strangely different from the common
sense dress of the modern soldier and sailor
The present necessity of service in a trop
ical climate is now making further radical
changes in the uniforms of our army, as may
be seen in the large colored supplement pub
lished with the issue of Harper's Weekly for
June 11. Several serviceable maps of tha
various fields of operations of our war with
Spain are also included in this supplement,
reta-en™ " valuable for Preservation and
a, M M? r ßi]fhi'^ eton - £ Co - enounce that
™ i f^ 1 Mansfield has Deceived num-
The Eagle'aSong." they wil supply copies
■°Th am^ let fOrm - Inc »«««»B also his poem on
The Charge of Dargai Gap."— The Critic.
Captain Mahan (now on the strategy board
at Washington) gives in the July Scribner'B
his opinion of. the strategy of the great naval
hero of the Revolution, "John Paul Jones "
Captain Mahan will describe the great fight
of the "Bonhomme Richard" and the "Se
rapis" in the August number of Scribner's.
George Moore, the author, of the remarka
the novel of modern life. "Evelyn Innes "
which is just published, has gained high rank
as a critic as well as a novelist, although
some of his novels, like "The Mummer's
Wife," may be known to a larger circle
than his fine critical studies of art and lit
erature.
Richard Davis' first twe^ War articles for
Seribner's Magazine appear in the July num
ber. They are "The First Shot of the War"
and "The First Bombardment" (Matanzas),
with snap shots of life on the flagship "New
York."— Ensign Boone, who fired the first
shot to kill, "cleared for action " etc Mr
Davis will write of the war for no other
magazine.
"The Financial Management of a War," by
Prof. Henry C. Adams, is the title of a
timely- reprint from the author's "Public
Debts." wlch is issued by D. Appleton &
Co.
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