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! art should as far as possible be made to
support each other.
'The tools necessary for the making of
exercises in these grades are the rule,
com passes, square, pencil and sloyd-knife,
which is safer than the ordinary pocket
knife, and of such shape as TO be easily
adapted to all models. These tools
should be kept in very shallow desk-top
such as is manufactured in the East. Clay,
paper, card board and wood are the mate
rials used.
"The central thought in manual train
ing in the publ schools" concluded Pro-
fessor Addicott, ''is education; second, as
far as possible 1t should train with dl.
rect view to actual work; third, pre- epara-
tion Tor higher technical study should In
these grades be incidental. The oppor-
tunity for correlation should always De
watched and the esthetic side OF the Train
ing ever kept in mind,
1t is not generally known that Cam-
bridge man, DR.. Furnivall of London, was
the inventor of the Iowboat sliding-seat.
But aside from this distinction DR.. Fur
nivall has other claims 10 the World
notice, for he it was who. III 1864, founded
the Early English Text Society, 10 wh'cP
all the leading English scholars OF "a
day belong. Already 100 volumes EaVe\
been published by this society, many
edited by Furnivnll himself, which have
greatly advanced the study OF early Eng
lIsh language and literature.
Not content with his exertions in this
direction we find DR.. Furnivan later be-
coming founder and director of number
of other societies, among which may be
mentioned the New Shakespeare, the
Shelley, the Wycliffe and the first Brown
ing Society. In 1869 he started the Chau-
Ger Society with the aim of rendering
closer study OF this great author possible.
While engaged in this work DIR. Furnlyal
conceived the plan OF making an extern
sive dictionary OF the language OF Chau-
Ger which would aid the study OF original
texts already publ shed by the society
In this scheme he was greatly encouraged
by Professor Francis J. Child of Harvard,
who is called the father Of English phllol-
ogy in America.
DIR. Furnivall succeeded in interesting
in the project young commercial traV-
eler, Wilson AylN ard who was accident
ally drowned few years ago, but whose
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Chaucer Concordance, because 10 him we
owe it that the scheme was not at first
abandoned through the great difficulties
that arose in its path.
While travelling about in the interests
of mis- paper business, Aylward in turn
succeeded in inducing over twenty-six
ladies and gentlemen of leisure in both
England and America to help in the
| bop of SIiT
person was directed to choose a
particular poem of Chaucer and
copy on slips of paper every word
| which the author used in that particular
work, marking the variations of the ,
words in different lines, and giving in the
| first place the context of the word some
what abbreviated One college student in |
| Ohio became so interested in the plaE'
| chat. he continued his slip-writing to
within half an hour of his DEATH and then
made his sister promise TO continue his
work where he had left it.
| Some idea of the magnitude OF this
scheme may be formed when it is learned
that with repetitions included Chaucer
used over 100000 words, which is about
| 100, 900 more than Shakespeare.
FulIJ half of these word slips for the
|
Unfortunately the first editor, Professor
Corson of Cornell, did not direct his
assistants 10 copy particles, propositions,
auxiliaries, etc, and this supplementary
| work which was almost a greater task
| than the other, fell to the share of the
present editor. DR.. Ewald Fluegel, for
merly OF Heidelberg, but now filing
chair at Stanford, helped 10 write out
parallel quotations from Chaucer's con-
temporaries, and also concordanced the
works of Cover and Wycliffe and about
seventy more works cf early English
literature. These efforts will cast light
on Chaucer's own writings, and by means
of them a number of intricate passages
| have already been elucid ated.
Moreover they enable to obtain glmpses
behind the philology in Stanford Univer-
sity.
In 1890 the main slipwriting was fin
ished, and since that time the task Of
sorting them into alphabetical order has
rapidly progressed, until now the worE,r
| Oh the concordance proper is ready to ben
! gin. 1t is hoped that the first part OF the
latter may bs published in 1900, which
will be the fifth centenary OF Chaucers
death.
In this proposed Lexicon Con cordance
to Chaucer" the words VII be arranged
under differ erent headings with reference TO
their history, etymoloAy and usage IN
| Chaucer's time and before.
So precious are the vast mass OF word
! slips considered by DR.. FIuegel that he
has recently built to contain them small
fireproot chamber opening off his study
| in his own home in Paio Alto.