St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-09
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the Presidents Tariff Message" illus
trated by cartoons drawn by Thomas
Mast. The illustrations are said to be
Nast's best vein. This firm will also
publish an edition of the message with
annotatlons by K. r. Bowker.
One of the important books which
the Scrlbners have in preparation is
men and Measures of Half Century;
"reminiscences, Sketches and Com
menus, by Hugh McCulloch, secretary
OF the treasury in the administrations of
Lincoln, johnson and Arthur.
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The boys and girls will find deal of
entertainment in Little People and
Their Homes in Meadows, Woods and
Waters" by Stella Louise Hook; book
that takes one into the fairyland of all
manner of insects. the habits ana lives
or which are described with dainty
grace. The illustrations by Dan and
Harry Beard are both helpful to the
reader and decorative. The Scribners
ton.
South Dakota" by Frank S. Child,
is compact little volume of sxty-seven
pages, giving a succinct statement of
the advantages OF that fruitful region.
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George William Curtis. in the Sep
TENDER Harper's, discusses campaign
Oratory and campaign writing. He
points out that eff an orator or a news
paper conducts discussion without dis
charging the iercest and foulest cpl
thets at the opponent, it is of
ten declared to be tame and
feeble and Indifferent" Mr.. Curtis
contention is that heat and reck-
leSsness defeat their own ends. 1.-The
weapon" he says, THAT demolishes an
antagonist and an argument is not
rhetoric, but truth. This accumulation
OF bad names and ingenious combina-
ton OF scurrility is merely rhetoric.
It an American were asked to
mention the most powerful speech ever
made in the debates of congress, he
would probably mention Mr.. Webster's
reply to Hayne. 1t contained the great
statement of nationality and the argu-
ment for the national Interpretation of
the constitution, and it was spoken in
the course OF famous controversy.
The truth is that the fury
which is supposed to imply force is the
conclusive proof of weakness"
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Julian Hawthorne gives the public
his views on plagiarism, in late num-
Der OF America. This is how he re-
CARDS the matter: mo great writer can
properly be said to plagiarize from a
small writer. The horse is his who
rides it; an idea is his who knows how
to make the most of it. Shakespeare
was not plagiarist; he took plots which
had previously been tempered with by
small writer's, but he gave his own
genius. The great writer is
not bound to credit the small writer
with what he has taken from him. The
small writer should be only too thank
full that the great writer cOndescended
TO make even so much use of him as to
wipe his feet on him and pass on. How
glad should be to know that | had
furnished an idea to Shakespeare, or
Ceryantes, or Thackeray! Small writ
ers have no rights the great writer's are
bound to respect; they have, indeed, no
rights whatever"
NJ
Prof. 81. FL. BOyesen says in the Sep
TENDER Forum: Il expect to meet with
much opposition when [ declare my
conviction that our public school sys-
tenn Will sooner or later have to be radi-
cally remodeled. 1t is an academic Sys-
tem-a university curriculum on a re-
Strlcted scale-Similar in kind, differing
only i'll degree. The culture which it
lmpartS is academic, and has but small
reference to the life which the great
majority of the pupils will have to
lead. 1t kindles an ambition in them
which, in nine cases out of ten, is des-
tined to be disappointed. and engen-
ders, as a consequence, discomfort and
disatfection toward the state which
fails to satisfy the expectations it has
aided in arousing."
Walter B. Platt, NJ. D., discusses the
subject of physical exercise in the Au-
Monthly. He does not approve strongly
of hasty walk to ones Office III the
morning. Here are bis views: "a man
may walk in an hour four miles, on a
city sidewalk, and reach his desk tired,
exhausted of force, and better only for
the open air and slight increase of the
circulation. Had he spent half that
time in a we'll ordered gymnasium,
using chest and rowing weights, and,
after sponge bath, if he had gone by
rapid transit to his office, he would have
found his work of very different color,
easier to do, and taking less time to per-
form it."
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Harper's Monthly gives revised
anecdOte concerning Lamb and the
rude American" Here it is: Charles
Lamb was once introduced to rude
American. who greeted him with the
rude remark: Il should have known
you were Charles Lamb by your slut
ter 'N-n-n-no, s-s-sir,' said Lamb,
'y-y-y-you a-are ADMINISTRATION. Lit
lis m-m-my b-b-rOther G-g-gGeOrge
wh-wh-who s-s-s-siss-st-tut-tut-tu
n-n-n-ot I''
Othello, the next volume of 1.-The
Bankside Shakespeare" will be edited
by Thomas r. Price. LID, vice presi-
dent of the New York Shakespeare So
ciety and professor of English in Column
bia college. DR.. Price will claim. in his
the discovery of an exact
prosOdial system, experimental upon
by Shakespeare in earlier plays, until
finally perfected in the ''Othello."
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Washington Public Opinion says that
''GladstOne'S private library contains
$1,000 volumes, and the venerable states
man can lay his hand upon any one
book of them all at minutes notice.
L uaVell'I Single DOCK. ue says, 'InaL
L am not on intimate terms with"
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The North American Review for Sep
TENDER continues the Gladstone-Inger-
soil controversy by a contribution from
Cardinal Manning. The value of this
is to be questioned in all
lights save the one, that it has given to
the general public the opinions of some
noted people. Beyond that, no disputed
theological or religious disputed points
have been set at rest, and faith had
added to it's fold no new converts. The
matter interests the struggling portion
Of mankind much less than the question
as to how diminishing incomes and
wasting bodies are to confront increased
demands for mental and physical sup
port. The best article of the number is
Ernest Lambert's ''AmericaniZed Eng
IiShmen:3 a happy PAPER on why think