The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1884-05-18

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Tho ambitious effort Of the Palmyrs eccaleobion
10 "The Presdicide" He explains that this title "is
word Of my own coming taken from the Latin and 10
not TO BE- found In dictionary published this
date" The poem 10 . supposed soliioquy Of j. wilkes
Booth It consists Of nearly thousand
one Of which may not bs read forward or backward
with equal interest
The First Report Of the Civl Service Commission Of
tho State Of New York contains among other thinGs
the replies OF number Of citizens the
propounded BY the Commission last fall One Of tho
questions this DO the present methods Of sppoin
ments and removals for political tend to bring
the best class Of young into prominence In political
parties, do they tend to make prominent less de-
serving class Of persons and to discourage the asprs
tions Of the more merttorousf" Mr. Theodore Roose-
welt replies, Tho last is the case"
The thirteenth annual report Of the Of
Public Instruction interesting facts Last
year IN Now York State there 9l% school houses
worth ISL .Oil2ii. The number OF school children In
attendance was .04i Oeo-a number greater than the
total population OF any Of nineteen States In the
Union. There $3.50 teachers. 24s47 Of them
Ing women The average annual salary OF the teachers
was 1901. The total expense Of maintaining the
schools wa, 81 .s5s,504.
Ned In the Woods" by Edward g. Ellis (Porter 4
Coates. Phladeiphiah 10 thoroughly wholesome book
OF Indian adventures. written for boys.
The vital. social, judicial nn'nciul agricultural. and
LABOR statistics OF Ohm compscty exhibited In the
last rrpart of the Secretary o that state We Hnd that
22& ohio people were sent to insane A.yiums 857l to
jail 3Wi were In the poor house. and 20 3tS went 70
the graveyard There 10 nothing TO show how many OBJ
tainrd public ONCE during the year.
"Day's CoiIacon" international Printing and Pub.
fishing Oce) Is eepkantins aggregation OF the
OF quotations from eminent authors which fur
nishss material for the Golden Thoughts" departments
Of rural newspaper Tho compilation and olassinoa-
ton 10 the work Of worry industrious person. Another
industrious person. with equal amount Of leisure at
his dsposa and equally unrestricted supply Of scrap
books might compile smother Collacon big ~ Days
and quite golden In which there should appear
single choice extract here presented This 10 the kind
Of labor that justified BY the rssula The book
illustrated by extraordinary steel and wood en-
gravinss Of distinguished authors-shskespsare and
King Kslakaus zoroastsr and Fanny Fern Dean Smith
and Emma II. Willard, besides many othera The por
trait Of the industrious Mr.. Day himself appears in the
group those Of Jonathan Edwards Ralph Waldo
Emerson and Edward Everett
Two Boston gentlemen. Mr.. Thomas ". snloway and
Mr. Lee L. Powers having made the ordinary tour Of
the United Kinsdon sSsh an account Of their travel,
ia handsome volume entitled The Cathedral Towns
Of England Ireland and Scotland" We cannot Imagine
why this handsome volume was ever printed.
"Ths Mothers Of Great Men and Women Dunk 4
Wagualls) 10 the contribution Of Laura Holloway to
the vast literature Of sloppy sentnentslty The Eng
hsn hss the tScHe pen OF inc Rtted author
%" may BE- Judged BY the following specimen; Mrs
Grant, though the mother Of the General
Of the and who twice elected President Of ths
United States to the least extent before the
public In the social that 10 true Of many mothers
| Of great men,"
Here 10 . novel by . drummer. "A Commercial TriE
with an Uncommercia Guiding" "a. p Putnam'a sons)
without the slightest prstensions literary merit IL 10
nevsrtheless artessy frosh and In it, con
temptation Of the anars Of the world from the CONNER
cial travellers point Of view that has both general 10
tersst and special value ~ . study Of real life.
Mr. Donald Mitchell has revised his excellent worn
ON the laying out Of country place aud the building
country house. (scribners) Its title 10 Towr
Places with Hints for their Improvement" We com
mend 10 the attention Of tho thousands and
Of psrsons who mean 10 construct country homes fo
themselves. Even those who do not concludeo follow
Mr. Aitehell's sdvns will learn something By reading
his book.
Dir George Groves ssssys on tho Nine Symphonies Of
Beethoven arc reprinted In beautiful volume, with
prsfaes By George Henschsl Geo H. Els) Every on,
whs wishes to increase his knowledge Of Beethoven %.
Do 70 by psrusai Of this volume.
The Century Company produces in very elegant aat
satsfsetosy style new collection Of hymns and mss,
entitled "Laadss Domini" We sorry not 70 nnA
ths preface assurance thss every hyaA stvsa pss
sissly - The asthss wrote u