The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-14

necessary I'm those days. Sir Walt0
! Raleigh. Ezabeth's Prime Minister ce-
! ell. and other distinguished people. spell
their names in as many different ways
as Shakespeare"
! Shakespeare parents did not belong to
the lower classes. there was an excel
lent school at Stratford, and Ben jon
sons statement that he had small Latiu
and less Greek lis not to be taken too
seriously"
Yet Prof Fiskc fully admits that
Shakespeare Is not learned poet. and
In this point he Is conspicuously different
from others OF the period. lie uses
Greek and Latin names and scraps or
classical knowledge such as he might
easily have picked up. but he is not cloth
sd in the garment Of ancient thought ~
Milton was
| VII
Mr. Samuel H. Howe OF Boston. has
| purchased Longfellows "Wayside Inn
at Sudbury. Mass. and will convert II
into a permanent memorial OF tho poet.
,sstoring II as nearly as possible 20 the
| condition IL was I'm when Longfeow
wrote the Tales. Mr.. Howe Is n descend
ant OF the original owners Of tho Inn.
VIII.
According 20 the Boston Transcript.
Mrs. $. r. Pickard. niece 81 the poet
| w lltfitf. Is IN Aflf~UUfNs fdtlih lNA AH~
poets estate. The Whittier portraits and
a portion of the furnishings have been
removed to the Plckard's home. where
they will be cared for.
Before removing anything, the loca-
ton OF portraits. pictures and furniture
was carefully indeXed for tho benefit or
any changes which may be made whereby
tho home may become permanently
Whittier memorial so that they can be
restored rs I'm Mr. Whittiers days OF oc-
cupancy. Tho library has not been dts
turbed only replaced as the books were
cataloeued and will remain IN its every
detail as the poet left it,
The Jewish publication Society an
nounces that all manuscripts entered Tor
competition for its prize OF $1,000 for IN"
best story relating TO a Jewish subject
suited TO young readers. must be IN ~"
Office Of the Society 1913 Arch street, Phil
adelphia. on March lst.
Reviewers apparently have notsmuch
influence upou the sales of popular 49,
eraturc No novelist has been more sys-
. tomat,cailv written down in tho Lon
don papers during tho last two or three
Years than Mr. r.. r. Benson. and one
would Imagine that his popularity must
needs have been affected by so many
sided am attack.
, Nevertheless his now look. THE Babe.
r.. A." which was subscribed 10 the
. trade last week. was taken up In larger
numbers than almost any other Of his
novels.
Mr.. Benson has had many publishers.
and has already promised two. II not
p / three books ahead.
The Babe' has fallen 10 Messrs. @.
! p. Putnams Sons. for England as for
: America. and that excellent firm has no
doubt. cause 10 congratulate Itself upon
the financial result Of us undertaking.
, Prof W a. Bishop, OF Yale. writes to
Z the Lounccr. in the Critic;
Q Il must say that the remarks your
b correspondent writes YOU about people
e arc tho kind OF thing that make me very
. tired Since when has English become
!, SO logical that you must refrain from
4 saying three people because. then, you
D might have TO say 'one people.
{ you are not obliged 10 do anything OF
+ the kind and never will he, unless al
good writer's agree upon H. and then
FOR that is the way language Is made
/, it Will be proper TO do 50.
q "Who is this exalted parrot. who has
70 not yet discovered that English Is "A mass
g OF nIogicallties. accepted by convention
And so is every other language as wei
e | The different idloms are not obliged Il
d square among themselves, tncy are -
. because they have been adopted, because
J. they are so.
"a when" continues Prof Bishop. TN
e obiector through resisting the pracuc'
I of 90 use his own words every journal
II list and every author wherever the Eng
IL lish language IS. written suppose ne ue'
!, some other language, French. for in
If stance.
p. II haven't heard that the French zee
k. constrained TO say 'onc young people
c because they say 'dcuX ieunes gems ttw
D. young peopleD Note also in such expires
u sions as n y n bcaucoup dc monde Je M
IL dis rien contre votre monde etc. the us
m of monde for people or iolks. -
" Apropos of this same quqesloh' w D. Il
n writes.
IF .Tho assertion quoted by tho Lounge
I'm "a roctnt Critic that 90 say Two o
" these people etc.. is correct is All non
% sense though t has been going th'
o. rounds of the papers without common
IL or contradiction. 500 far as ] am aware
is THE Century Dictionary gives as IN
- fourth meaning OF people: Persons an
81 / ncrsons indefinitely. men, cohecuN
'e noun taking "A verb boz The plural ana 40
.n r,ittin,, I'm colloQuill use a. numoral h1
jectivc, as. people may say "h.' .',
ploase. n number of country people "ei
ma there. people OF iashloh' 'u'i' WIZ D"
ID. ten people present
n .Tbis use OF the word s found in Shak'
spoare and the Bible. and IS much oin'
than those authtritios. or doh ln
in same dictionary says. a contracuo
W ~ do not. common n colloquial languas
and. more improperly. ass a conracu0
~ Of does no..
IN The latter use IS likely 10 become esta'
n ushed as an allowable coNoquiails.
though il IS doubtful whether u VIII
y admitted I'm literary composition. eNoe
*. i'm quoting colloQuial language IL u
from being as objectionable as amt
which teachers and grammar-monse
rs. are fond OF comparing &c.
~ The President and Fellows OF NaS.'
lon College have formally d''hn.l u
~ memorial tablet which the committee
\ tho Gibbon C0mmemOraton piop"se'
Is ,laco i'm the COLLEGES chapel The run.
.orocted bv the Committee VIII now
~ o,nlied 10 the purchase for each snoscn
cr of q COPY Of the unpublished works
Gibbon. 10 be published by MI Jo'
49,. murray I'm London and by te Moss
=, ecribnor On this country ~
Nr Julian Hawthorn sailed ior 1907
"a" t.v on Wednesday. January -'th'
Of investigate and report the plague ~
- ,omlne Of our interesting but shof'-sisn I
49,. cd Arvan cousins for the Cosmopoi,''
aa with him in India and Mr. hlcha
~, Harding Davis In cuba, we may n
~ tho Toungcr. anticipate some lhteiesu
7 and original reporting