The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-11
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Dfter Reviews OF Hnaportant ano InterestinR
New Publications
Mr.. G. W. Bardeen of Syracus publishes. UNI
Der the title Of .Teachinr nv n Busincss." n
book made up OF four az Al esses recently do.
iiyered by him. Mr.. Ba ,1een ia not without
humor. He used TO DO n school teacher. but he
ia ut preaent a publjsb ar. and the amusing
uuolity OF tho business pf school t,achine prc.
~ents itsolf to him m n wny that would very
likely be impossible To school toacbers who have
not become publish. sra mr. who have not other.
vvIse managed To lift Themselves into A more
profitable employment. Mr.. Bardeen is
frankly glad That he has ceased 10 DO a
school ten .hcr. There seems to DO no
reason, beyond certain reasons founded in
extreme Altruism, why he should not be glad.
OF couI sc, school teaching is not only an i'm
,portant but a noble occupation. The nobility OF
II has always boon insisted upon by Governors,
Boleotman. and school committeeman not to
spsak of all sorts of casual orators. That any |
I ninR 40 noble should command 90 small a COM
sensation is exasperating rather than surpris.
Ang. 1t is q proyerb in Germany that learning
is poorly paid. Ono may know Euclid by heart,
and be wholly familiar with the mystery Of
sines and coslnes. and still be able to command
NO more than $500 II year. Indeed, there arc
Riants OF learning who nre not sure OF even so |
much. A perfect understanding OF tho unhar.
monic ratio of the pencil cannot be pawned
for rs much as u nickel watch. 1t
IN hard to say whose fault it IL, but IL is q fact
that the worthless follow who peddles tips on
the horse races may make moro money than the
scholar who knows Virgil by heart. No one
would think of r~eciting "Tyrant Euipus" in
tho street with the hope of gain, and yet the
pennies shower In tho tin cup Of the organ grind
OF. Probably 1t 10 nobody's fault. 1t In merely
the irony of fate. Some little consolation for
tho learned may lie In tho circumstance that
nobody has ever described organ grinding or
the business Of selling tips on the horse races an
noble. Perhaps to be held in the esteem that Ia
p~igniied BY the word noble IL better than money.
t5ome years ago q young man distinguished BY
original methods and by what appeared to
DO q cheerful hope sought in tho advertising
columns Of tho newspapers q landlord who
would consider his Christian example as . suf.
aoiont compensation for his board. 1t has never
como to DO known that no found the landlord he
wal looking for, but that 10 not to say that he
did not deserve to lind him. Perhaps he was
consoled by sense Of the Justice and rsasona-
bleness OF his own position In the matter. Per
haps he was able to feel that he himself, In the
Hight OF his unanswered proposition, was noble,
and that all the landlords who failed to respond
to him were nothing OF tho sort. He, may have
been happier, in the moral citation incident to
his self-scrutiny, than sausages and mashed
potatoes could have made him. Mr.. Bar
deem, as We have intimated, contemplates tho
question of tho small pay of school teachers
with . humor not unnatural to one who has
anaged to DO no longer in the business. To
see to 1t that his pupils should correctly cay that
the Connecticut took its rise in northern Now
England. and, flowing south, separated the
States OF vermont and New Hampshire, inter
0ected the States Of Massachusetts, ana Connect
acut. and. passing Middle Haddam, lower had
dam. oia madam ana Haddam' erLptied itself
into the Long Island SOUND, between Saybrook
ana Lyme was not sumcient fof him, consider.
ahk Inc coinpehsatioh that was attached. He
"elVereo himsei from an occupation that Is
nooie rathef mar pronteoIe as soon as he was
Hoie. ltmay 10 that ne Is thankful that he was
hooiy employed once upon n time.
IN Inc fotters wheel we have a volume Of
sermons oy ian Maciarea Uodd. Mead & Co...
AUS u oe hopeo 'naIis Will not be thought pert
or OFFENSIVE 10 say tP.at these are not in the
Scoech diaiect- Ih'y contemplate the indis-
Putaoie iect OF the tragic sorrows OF the world.
Hney PROFOUND ID any questions. the burden Of
"nicn 49, why are we made to suffer and to
nourn' why 10 there pain ana deathf VI
COURSE not likely that there should be n
ne" answer 20 these questions. Ian Maciaren
euggests u at We are the clay on the pot
'er whe". we arc moulded to an END, without
Eosaru ~ the particles. There isa graceful now
anu = pD ilosophical consolation in these essays.
wn,on' re dignined and sympathetic, II not for
oioie.' n their illustration. Ihey arc calculated.
M az uot. TO sober us and prepare us for the
com ng OF stevenson's Pale Centurion 1t
WI. DC remembered that omar spoke briefly OF
and MS work:
For l remember stopping by tho way
To watch a Potter humping his wet Clay;
And with Its all'obliterated Tongue
Hmurnured; gently brother' gently prayr
To any one who saw the different series Of OK.
tracts from Mark Twain's latest book, Follow
InE the Equator. A Journey Around tho
World" loosely put together and served up
some time ago with the regulation yellow Sun
day supplement embellishments in the shape of
crude caricaturestand comic pictures. the vol.
ume. % now issued by Messrs. Doubleday &
Mcclure. will be both a surprise and q delight.
Well bound and printed. with an artistic cover
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