The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-06-19
THE QUESTION TABLE.

THE QUESTION TABLE.
'HOW TO JUDGE OF A PICTURE."-van Dyke.
Each member of division B. class No. will please
send in answers to the following questions for
publication in next weeks issue of THE MIRROR.
/. In looking at picture what is the first
question that we should ask ourselves2
e. What are the two leading features of paint
ing2
8. What does the author say regarding educa-
ton in the art of painting of the native born
American?
4. What is the caution offered by the author
regarding color?
S. What is said regarding the number of paint
ers who have lived and who have been ''colorists'
6. What is the advice offered by the author for
the study of picture gallery?
z. What is the work of the modern school
known as the Spanish-Roman remarkable for?
s. What is harmony?
9. How is harmony produced?
TO- What colors are included in the two groups
distinguished as warm and cold? and what is said
regarding their tones?
H. What is the only one true way pointed out
by the author to acquire art knowledge of
harmony?
IL. What is said regarding the color perception
of the people Of India? and why?
ANSWERS TO IL QUESTIONS ON "PREPARA-
TORY AND COLLEGE LATIN COURSES IN
ENGLISH. "-WILKINSON.
l. The plan is to adopt the selections ordna-
rily made by teachers. first in preparatory school
and afterward in college, accompanied with intro
auctions. translations and comments. 2. The
plan of the author is to deal with classic Latin
literature--chiefy. 8. The classic period may
be considered extending from about so B. C. to
los A. DIS years-less than six generations. 4.
Cicero begins and Tacitus ends the classic period.
S. Livius Androncus is regarded the beginner
Of Latin literature. He Italian Greek.
having been made prisoner at the capture of
Tarentum by the Romans 20 B. c., consequently
he was a slave. G. 1t is historically significant
that Roman literature should have been begun by
Greek. Z. Naevius a Roman of Hellenic
origin and was famous for having written an epic
on the first Punic war, esteemed by scholars
of the chief lost things in Latin literature. S.
Ennius was Latin poet and Cicero and other
Latin authors acknowledged great merit in his
verse. g. Plautus and Terence were the
great Roman writer's of comedy;. but they plagia
rzed most of their writings from the Greeks. The
works of these two writer's represent to the lit
erature of the Roman theater. They were partly
cOntempOraneOuS. III. A KnOWleQgo respecting
the everyday life and the morality of the ancient
Romans is to be found in the Satires which their
own writer's produced. IL. Satire is form
of composition in verse original with the Romans
and was their way of unbending from their
customed severity. H. Latin literature is
markable for its spirit of satire.
1t is gratifying to announce that in response to
the call made to division A. class No. for
to the IL questions which appeared in last weeks
issue Of THE MIRROR each member of said divis-
ion handed in their replies thereto almost within
4S hours from the time the paper reached them,
all of which bore the impress of much careful
study and though differing in language and gen.
eral form, were upon examination found to be
correct in every particular. Although all the
answers handed in are we'll worthy of study and
imitation, those selected and appearing above
were the most attractive by their brevity and ex-
planatory accomplishments.
VINCENT AND JOYS "OUTLINE HISTORY OF
ROME"
In studying the story Of the foundation and
Kingdom of ancient Rome we forcibly i'm
pressed by the lesson it teaches of mans avari-
ciousness and grasping greed of power and what
low despicable and even criminal means he will
employ to obtain absolute or even linn tied author
ity over his fellowmen. We would suppose from
the story of the vicsstudes of the childhood of
Romulus and Remus that everything that might
happen could not destroy their fraternal relations.
But we see Romulus at the threshold of manhood
Staying his brother for defying his authority by
leaping ever the slight barrier he had erected
around small settlement of which he was the
founder and over which he ruled as the first king
OF Rome. But even Romulus' crime sur