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years before his plays were collected.
However the people of his day re-
garded him, it is safe to say that they
could not have had any conception OF
the: Importance of the work he was
doing. They were doubtless satisfied
with him. 1t was a great age for ro-
mances and storytelling, and he told
stories, old in new dresses, but he was
also careful to use contemporary life,
which his hearers understood.
1T is not to his own age, but to those
following, and especially to our own
time, that we are to look for the shap-
ing and enormous influence upon hu-
man life of the genius of this poet. And
it is measured, not by the Libraries OF
comments that his works have called
forth, but by the prevalence of the
language and thought of his poetry
in all subsequent literature, and by
its entrance into the current of COM
mon thought and speech. 1t may be
safely said that the English-speaking
world, and almost every individual of
it, are different from what they would
have been if Shakespeare had never
lived OF all the forces that have sur
vived out Of his creative time, he is
one of the chief
(''The People for Whom Shakespeare
Wrote" by Charles Dudley Warner Harper
& Bros, New York. $1.25. For sale by the
st. Paul Book and Stationery company)
Infancy and Childhood" by Mrs.
Frances Fisher Wood, is a small but
important book which will recommend
itself to mothers. The rational and n.y.
gienic treatment of young children is
discussed by Mrs. Wood in way that
persuades one Of her practical and pro-
fessional knowledge, and one does not
need to be told that she is the wife of
an eminent physician, and herself an
educator, to know that she must have
enjoyed peculiar advantages in study
ing her theme. She emphatically be-
lieves and persuasively argues that
coddling and superfluousN attention are
against the physical and mental devel-
opment of children, and she urges
sanity rather than sentimentaity in
their up-bringing; American children
receive too much attention and too lit
tie care" Food, dress, sleep, rest, rec
reation. training, the nursery, the
nursery-maid, the mothers personal
care, the individual child are some Of
the subjects considered in this small
volume. The chapter on Nursery
Maids" is especially suggestive: In
England the children, not only of the
upper classes, but even of the middle
classes in moderate circumstances, are
provided with their own apartments
and watched by a special care taker;
and the routine Of their daily life is
suited to their immature years, as ia
vorable results demonstrate. But the
children of an English family are by
no means neglected by the mother.
In America, in a family OF
equal social and financial standing, the
mother either has no regular nurse at
all, or, for economy's sake, puts UP
with an incompetent one; while among
the weather. classes, where one OF
more expensive nurses are secured, the
mother almost universally abandons
the supervision of her children, and
practically leaves them to the less in
telligent care of these women.
We believe that the children who are
totally neglected by the mother and
those who are cared for solely by her
are both, on an average, unfortunate.
= s Many American mothers cher
ish the misguided sentimental impress
sion that no one can give the children
such good care as themselves. But no
mother can give her children really
good care and do anything else, with
out absolute decentralization of her own
health and complete arresting of all
personal mental growth"
(''Infancy and Childhood" by Frances Fish
er Wood Harper Bros, New York. S1.OO.
Tor sale by the st. Paul Book and Stationery
ccnipany.)
persons who have never given the
subject much attention will be sur
prised to learn how little authority
there is for the rules governing the
great majority Of cur popular games.
says Mr.. R. r. Foster the author of
"The Complete Hoyle," and recog-