The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-17

Sc':nc OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES IyaU
Signs an .:dmiring E.ctter to xoIs.
--Ciowe$' "The Roya. Navy"
Correspondence The St Paul Globe.
BOSTON, April H.-Madrid and
| " aShington, the army and the navy.
Being the sole subjects in which Bos-
ton has been really interested for weeks
it is a very good time for the appear
aIce OF Maj. W. K. LiVermOre's Amer
! lean krieSsspiel." which, after some
eighteen years of preparation and ex-
pertinent, is now ready for publication.
and VIII be issued next week by the
W. b. Clarke company. It is rot al
together national vanity which makes
American officers regard this Kriegs-
spiel as combining the good points of
the free" and the rigid German sys
TENS, for experience has shown them
that 1t can be played with sufficient
rapldity to satisfy even Napoleon, and
/ that its system of computing and
] recording results would leave nothing
! Tor Won Moitke to desire. An ingenious
! table Of logarithms, arranged like a
| criDbage board, and added and sub
| tracted by moving a peg, and tables of
/ nOulncaUlGnS COnfOrmed to the very
latest standards, are the machinery by
/ which speed and perfect eXactitude are
obtained. The chance factor is found
/ ~ LII Wv LES Qi6, ana SuGCfdcIlnG one
from the number exhibited; the blocks
used are so scored that by turning
/ them they can be made to show the
/ exact condition of each company, bat
! terry or squadron engaged; and means
are provided for Indicating fatigue. dis
/ organization, motion and direction and
| intensity of fire, so that the game
might be played silently. if desired,
| ard is sufficiently simplifed to be with
! IN the comprehension of the lowest of
militia subalterns. Originally. this
method was devised for detachment
hriegsspiel, but it has been so extended
! as to include grand tactics. strategical
movements, siege operations and naval
| engagements. The educational value Of
| kriegsspiel played by Maj. Livermore's
| plan, is beyond cavil, which is more
! than can be said of either the free
! or the rigid" forms, one sometimes
degenerating into pure guess work,
rather less exciting than the multiple
! cation table set to slow music
1T is not surprising" Hrothar Jona-
than Will say, that my sons can devise
a good war game. They can plav one
IN earnest and forget it, and that they
really can forget, not only civil war
! but its origin, is shown by the surpris-
ing popular indifference to the protest
of the mill owners against the eight
| hour law, fOrbiddinG them to use their
| costly machinery and immense water
power to full advantage. # was With
the endeaVors 3f the New England
manufacturers to obtain protection for
their products that the devastating war
of the last generation began, and this
| appeal to the Legislature power may be
the initial movement Of a struggle more
deadly; but eyes and cars exist only to
read and hear news from Spain ard
! Havana
Perhaps Boston eyes may turn aside
for a moment in a Week or two. when
Mr.. Arthur Stanley Piers The Second
String" a story of the Harvard Sun,-
mer School, is to he issued, for the
school is pet with Boston and Cam
bridge, and both towns are somewhat
! strenuous in demanding that their IA
! Vorites shall be admired and respected
| The heroine is a Western teacher, not
one Of those superb instructors whom
| DR.. Rice found in the West and descrjb
ed as models for Eastern imitation, but
a silly, half-educated girl, too lazy for
manual labor, and really caring for
nothing but Irritation. She and her
betrOthed lover, poet Of the same
class as Mr.. Hezekiah Butterworth,
come to the summer school together,
and she promptly begins to WOO the
supercilious, well-dressed instructor in
English literature, youth who despisas
his heterogeneous classes until it daWns
upon him that his pupils are really
earnest, devoted seekers for knowledge.
although their clothes and their accent
are unlike his. 1t is easy to foretaI the
wrath of odd Teacher and "Poda-
Il gogue," and all the other regular cor
respondents of the education Jour-
mails, and it is easy to imagine the
peeVishness of certain foppish, cigar
ette-smOking tutors and instructors at
Harvard, although, really, the story is
a very fair account of q struggle be-
tween crude Vulgarity and crude knowl-
edge, and neither has cause to COM
plain that the other is unduly favored.
The publishers of ''The Second
String" will be Messrs. Copeland &
Day, who also announce 1.-The Man
Who Worked for Collester," a volume
of short stories, by Miss Laura Tracy
Earle. THE Birds Highway" by Mr..
| Reginald Heber Howe which is also to
have their imprint, is to contain some
rather extraordinary heliotypes, so ac-
curately initiating Mr.. Fuertes' water
colors that it seems impossible that
they should be I.2ere press work The
fastidious souls who pine to behold
the actual brush strokes of the artist
will be sore!y puzzled to know whether
or not TO be enthusiastic about them.
| The promised History of the Lowell
Institute" by Miss Harriette knight
Smith, really includes a brief account