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UNDER THE DUTcHMAN,s RULE

SHREWSBURY-ByS Stanley J. Weynan.
 New York: Longmans Green & Co.
 For sale by Doxey. Price s1 50.
 Of the historical novelists of the modern school there is probably no writer who turns out his work in a more clear cut, conscientious fashion than MT. Weyman. If he is less romantic than Anthony Hope, if his heroes lack the blind dare devil chivalry of Conan Doyle's, he is at any rate more graphic and concise, his characters move naturally in their ap- pointed epoch, and nothing of local color that careful study of the period can pro- vide is lacking.
 It is difficult however, in spite of the admirable technique displayed, to follow the developments of this novel with sus- tained interest. It is a complicated story of court intrigues during that stormy period of English political life which fol- lowed the downfall of the Stuarts and the restoration of the Protestant succession. William III, promoted from the humble position of stadtholder in Holland to the dazzling position of King of England, was but insecurely seated on the throne. Many of the nobles and large propor- ton of the commonalty were opposed to his rule. the air was full of intrigue, and plot after plot for his deposition and for the restoration of King James was form
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THE SHAPING OF MODELS.

Once in the presence of Disraeli an over-confident youth ventured to ridicule the proyerb makers. Any one. ne saiu, 'could make proverbs in quantity And the statesman answered: Make feW! It is needless to say that, had the young man accepted the challenge, he would have acquired a sudden and lasting re- spect for a genuine proverb.
 Now a series of Sloyd models is good deal like a collection of proverbs. They are plain, unpretentious affairs, but there ing The original Sloyd school at Naas, Sweden. has been in operation for twen- ty-five years, yet Dr. Saloman's teachers are still altering the courses, each year introducing new models and modlf1ca- tions of old ones.
 Recent years have seen numerous am- bilious attempts made, both in this coun- try and England, to originate systems or manual training, but thus far there Is not successful elementary manual training course in operation in either country that has not Naas to thank for it's foundation principles. These princi- pies are:
 l. Gradation of difficulty.
 The exercises must proceed from known to unknown, from simple to com plex, from the easy to the difficult In this respect articles made of wood are very misleading in appearance. But the basis of organization lies not in the mod els themselves. but in the tool exercises which they embody. Here, then, Is question of tool-sequence:
 Are some of the woodworking tools easier of manipulation than others?
 Of two or more exercises with the same tool, may one be easier than another?
 The answer in both cases is aff1rmative. It is simple enough matter to roughly cut a stick in two with cross-cut saw. but quite another to put good bevel on that same stick with chisel-
 The Naas people think the Sloyd knife is the best adapted for the beginning, and so the first two or three models. of the Naas series are small modelled articles re- 1t does not seem to have occurred to them that there Is such a thing as tool se- quence, except among the teachers, who are following the Swedish system.
 In the manual training courses of the
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was the man I saw before me; on whose face, as if heaven purposed to warn tlls fellows against him. malignant passion and an insane vanity were so piaihly stamped that party spirit must nave gone to lengths indeed before 1t rendered. men blind to his quality. His shamoling salt seemed a fitting conveyance for a gaunt' stooninp figure so awkward and uncouth that when he gave way to gestlcuialloh It seemed to be moved by wires; yet once he looked askance at you face ana ngufe were forgotten in the gleam Of the eyes that. treacherous and cruel. leered al you from the penthouse of his huge, il-httinS wig"
 For the hero of the novel. Richard Price we must confess an utter iack oI sympathy. His pusilianimity and weak ness excite repulsion and 1t LOOKS as IL Mr. Weyman had only introduced him as a convenient vehicle for the presentment of the more manly and picturesque per sonages of the time Beginning as an usher In a country school, Price is nope lessly befooled in a love affair with country wench and fees to London. lhe,e he serves his apprenticeship to the traue of news letter writing. business "nlO, the development of nrinting facilities nau not vet destroyed Then he becomes the tool of Ferguson and other plotters TOT the destruction of the monarchy. anu iS induced to personate the Duke or Shre"s bury. to whom he bears most marh resemblance. In all these dolngs He 10 purely subjective, he moves through va rious kinds of excitement and danger like a mere quaking automaton. ana II he escapes hanging many times as spy and a rebel it is more by reason or goou luck than merit. Why MT. NeEIhai should take the trouble to bring such ' nondescript creature through all these bair-breadth escapes and marry him hap pilv in the end passes our comprehenslon' Possibly the hero's weakness is purposely exaggerated in order to accentuate the strength of the other actors in the drama. And leaving Price. as narrator, out or the question, Mir. Weyman has certalnIy given us a very vivid presentation or London life and character at the close Of the seventeenth century.
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k1IIIb W UT UT, WIUSe works, as Carlyle once remarked. are lauded as classics and discreetly rele- gated to the topmost shelves of our h. braries. The theory has been ad- vanced that the only reason for the popularity of Quo Vadis?" lies in the fact that it presents pictures of the gilded vice of ancient Rome that could be obtained only after patient research theory is or is not the correct one. am unable to say but it appears to be the one fixed upon by writer In the Wash ington Star who contributes the fol- lowing anecdote:
 I want to get couple of books for two young men," said the girl in the
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Is YOUR God: just yours. That he knows as he does and as he will soon make evil dent to you, every wish. every desire Of your heart, every thought that comes to you. Go to him as you would to living worries. your troubles, your aims. your hopes. your desires. Come close to him. Before long. after he has shown you light a few times, after he has told you what to do when you did not know your- self, then you will find out for yourself whether there is a God or not You will have no doubt of him. He win be to you, as he is to thousands, living Being, an actuality-One that you know almost as you do your own father, who lives his life before you.
 Excellent advice, and, standing alone, worthy of all the serious atten-
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She appears to be the only American
 woman writer capable of piercing the rhinoceros-like Lides of our local four hundred. Time and time again have Pacific Coast writers attempted to put
 gall in their ink when handling Pa- cific Coast society," but without effect. Their slings and arrows have glided off like buckshot from a modern whale back Then came Gertrude, and pro- ceeded to describe Monterey as the place where the flower and the vege- tables of San Francisco congregate every year." From far off London she thus characterizes the Press of San Francisco: My experience of the San Francisco press has extended over ten years, and if there is anything pet tier on this planet I have been fortu- nate enough to escape it." Her Pa tience Sparhawk' was excluded from
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used daily in the school room under the guidance of the skillful teacher; l there fore recommend the purchase of at least three sets of supplementary reading books (and enough of seach set to place one copy in the hands of each .pupiD for the first six years of school life-eighteen sets in all; that subsequent to the sixth year carefully selected literature work be substituted for general reading, and purchased in sets as in the lower grades.
 ITO teachers I would add that some where in your school library you should find a pamphlet entitled How to Use School Libraries which was sent out from this office to each district .approxi- mately eight years ago. It contains much valuable information and many useful from which you will be able to work out @ satisfactory solution to this important question. Study this line. of your work and try to create a desire in the minds of your pupils to read approved standard literature, and if you succeed, in after years they will rise up and call you bleSSad
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future, physiological psychology. wi.l likely have a say. ltanley Hall and oth- CTS are showing that the musculc~ or ganization of a child does not develop Simultaneously throughout. Thus, a cniid has learned 70 push his arms about and run while 1t Is still difficult matter TOT him to pick up pin.
 J. Liberty Todd of Philadelphia has de- veloped remarkable system of drawing on this basis. Hls younger pupils stand at the board, and with both hands oraW large free designs in place of the craIlped affairs usually found in drawing-books There is food for thought here for those who are trying 10 drag woodwork down into the primary grades, the proper place for clay modelling anu caroDoard Work.
 We cannot develop the pupils self-re- liance by doing his work for him or caus- ing 1t to be done by machinery So the Sloyd idea requires that the exercises shall be reasonably within the pupil s ability of performance.
 ant A birdcage does not make for the highest motive. A birdhouse does. In general, all models making for destruc- ton and detention are to be quietly dis placed for those which are constructive and altruistic n thelr suggestions.
 In shaping model series, the American tendency of late years gives preferment to school apparatus over articles of home use It can hardly be otherwise in this day of correlation of study.
 WALTER J. KENYON.
 Stanford IJniyersity.
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" Y TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS.

The convention of the Southern Cali fornia Teachers Association, which was held in Los Angeles during March 3l to April 2. was largely attended by dele cations of teachers from all the southern counties.
 One of the most interesting talks of the session was by Professor Starbuck Of Stanford, who took for his subject phase of child study which he called Nature Hews First in the Rough Pro- lessor Starbuck began by describing how nature builds in minerals and in plants, and then said that the teacher is learn Ing the secret that the same process of development is followed in the human being. If all this were thoroughly un- 1erstood, it would aid very materially in he work of the school room.
 Professor Starbuck emphasized the inn portance of kiudergartens and manual training in bringing all the activities of the child into play Touch, he asserted, Is also fundamental, and at F years the thinking machinery should be developed Esthetics and morals are the funda- mentals of child nature. We must see that these fundamentals are deeply in grained in the child, and then nature will lake care of its own.
 Professor J.M. Quinn made strong plea for systematic teaching of local his tory as a means of cultivating a love for the subject and also as a preliminary step in the study of national and general history.
 NO State" said the speaker. "has a more instructive, more interesting or a more varied history than California, and no State has had so many different forms of government. First, a semi military, semi dependence of Spain; next a territory of Mexico; then the Estado Libre de California-a republic ali by itself, with a self-constituted gov ernor; back again as Mexican territory then the Pacific republic with the bear flag as its emblem; then a conquered DOT ton of the United States with the bear flag as its emblem; then a civil territory, and lastly a sovereign State of the Union.
 Tn the old pueblo of Los Angeles 1t took thirty-five years to establish a school, and after a year of lickin' an larnin the school took a vacation of ten year to allow the knowledge acquired to settle and possibly the pupils back to heal.
 Tn the forty years that Los Angeles was under Spanish rule there was but little material or intellectual advance ment."
 The professor concluded his address thus:
 ''California, with a past unrivaled in the variety of its historic phases, legend tradition, romance, adventure intrigue war. conquest, ace, prosperity; Cali fornia, with the light and shade of it's shifting civilizations and largess oi material for an epic grander than the 'Iliad and more fascinating than the Odyssey has allowed relic collectors and literary pot hunters to capture the great
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CONCERNING BOOK PURCHASES.

Superintendent Mack of Amador County thus addresses his teachers on the pur- chase of new books
 "At our institute last year the assem- bled teachers made list of books which in their judgment should be on the shelves of every school library in the county. 1 sent to each teacher a copy of such list, and would respectfully rec ommend the purchase of more books of desirable nature and less apparatus. purchased should be especially adapted for teachers reading-pedagogca and otherwise. In his recommendations State Superintendent Samuel T. Black writes as follows: The most important books in a school library are those that may be
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New York to have what is hoped will be model school building which Hundred Hundred Fifth
  side It will be five high and built The first includes boys and girls play glazed brick and fooed with asphalt furnished
  have been laid with direct floor join vesbue These 
 The second third fourth
 
  tei each has coil o dry clothing maintain circulation The fifth ua and physical training and supply library This building will be heated thirty cubic feet of fresh the of foul be of the most mode H. adjustable modern style.
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ular ironing cloth. AIways lay your trous- CTS out at full length when you take them off; do not hang them unless you have stretchers.
 So if you want unconscious humor you must not miss the Ladies' Home Journal, whose conductor, it would ap- pear, would be far more in his element in the editorial office of Puck. If these few remarks bring him to a sense of the incongruity of his actions, they will not have been written in vain, and, since we are dealing with texts, let me urge upon MT. Box the advisability
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excuse me- ms so the way, ZOla s Iour
 Unexpected" letters to France have been issued by Mir. John Lane or the Bodley Head AS might have been expected, the letters are full of high and sounding rhetoric, of that melodra- matic passion which we know best from the works of Byron. Yet there IS true pathos in the opening sentences:
 "Whither are you going, young men?"
 Do you go to protest against some abuse of authority?
 Do you go to redress some social wrong?
 NO, mol We go to hoot a man, an old man, who. after long life of labor and loyalty, imagined that he might give his support with impunity to generous cause"
 Gertrude Atherton is about to chas- tise us again at long range. She has
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Also encourage your pupils to make col lections. This will naturally lead to lit- tie talks on the plants and animals they have observed. First take up the most familiar forms, noticing their different then gradually enlarge your researches until all known forms peculiar to the vicinity have been described. Relate short stories regarding the same. Study seeds and their germination in their season.
 Require at times illustrated compost tions. By training children to use their own eyes we improve the work in draw ing and at the same time furnish food for thought. Children express in language much better that which they find out themselves by observation. This gives them self-confidence, and in addition cul- tivates their powers of observation, love of literature. truth telling. truth-seeking and increases their vocabulary.
 Systematic nature study in the gram mar schools would give an impetus to the study of botany. zoology, etc. in the high schools. These studies exert a moral influence. broaden the sympathies, elevate their tastes and lead them to higher thoughts. ANNIE BASS.
 Bedding, Cal
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Now, I am not one of those who, to employ the words of the first Psalm. "sit in the seat of the scornful," at the mention of religious matters. nor would I, when hearing them. discussed, an- swer with the sheer of the false pro- phet of old. Which way went the spirit of the Lord?" Nevertheless am decidedly opposed to the adminis- tration of spiritual advice and consola- tion In homeopathic doses. and regard it little less than blasphemy to mix sec ular and religious matt-<' in the man. ner that MT. Box does .n his Ladies' Home Journal. Rarely a month passes where this error against the canons of good taste is not committed in its most fragrant form. Take the April issue for instance. On page 40, in a column headed Problems of Young Men" by Edward w. Box, you may read this:
 A YOUNG MANS GREATEST HELP.
 You tell me that many intellectual men
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Stanford University.
ON THE BLACKBOARD.


 Berkeley will not have new High School this year:
 The Mayfield School District in Santa Clara County has decided to issue bonds to the amount of 1000 for new school building.
 School will give fancy dress party next week.
 County Superintendent Margaret M. Mogean and a large delegation of teach CTS from San Bernardfno attended the re- cent convention in Los Angeles.
 The bond election at Big Pine, Inyo County, resulted in favor of the propo- sition for a new school house by large majority. Exact details of the building have not been determined. but many favor a two-story addition to the pres ent building.
 On april the Berkeley Board of Edu- cation held it's regular meeting. at which the question of calling an election for a direct tax for school purposes was dis cuSSed.
 On the 23d of this month the Trustees of the Redlands Grammar School. San Bernardno County. will call an election to determine the issuance of s7000 in bonds at per cent interest. It is intended to build two-story four-room front to the State-street school house. The archi- Is $6000, but any surplus from the bond issue can be advantageously used in re- pairs on the Kingsbury school building.
 The Schoolmasters' Club of San Diego recently adopted resolutions favorfng the
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tiOn Of the young man to whom it is addressed. I am interested, and read further. What is this I see?
 Baggy trousers may be prevented by frequent pressing, which you can do at home. Brush the trousers carefully first; lay them out at full length on an ironing board; dampen with sprink- ling of water or moist sponge, and iron them over areg-
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zine, and his gigantic mentality makes itself apparent even in the departments supposed to be conducted by those more or less intelligent females, who as- sume to give counsel to our wives, our sisters and our daughters on the meth ods they should adopt for the proper conduct of their lives. Do you wish to know how many timea per evening it is considered comme-il-faut to em- brace your best young lady? Ovid Box will enlighten you. Are you in doubt as to whether or not you should eat ice-cream with a fork? Consult Ches- terfield Box and he will guide you. Are you anxious for political or diplomatic preferment? Talleyrand Box will as
 sist you. Would you seek wealth on the Klondike? Here are Expert Bok's potent and original observations on the subject: Chances on the Klondike de- pend as everything else does. on the
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and Receiver of the United States Land Office at Independence. For this reason MT. Austin will probably resign his pres ent position at the coming meeting of the Board Of Supervisors.
 4 fine new schoolhouse has just been finished at Tamalpais Station, Marin County.
 The students of the Visalia High School gave very creditable presentation of the four-act comedy, Dot, the Miner s Daughter" last Saturday evening in the assembly hall of the Locust-street School
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FROM SAN BeRNARDINo COUNTY.

Last week. after one of the most suc- cessful meetings ever held there, the San Bernardino County Teachers Insti- ute adjourned to meet for the remain ing three days with the Southern Cali fornia Teachers Association in Los An geles.
 School building in San Bernardino, and great interest and enthusiasm was mani fested in the entire programme.
 Interest was manifested in the speci- mems of drawing, penmanship, compost tion and science work from the various county schools which decorated the walls and tables One of the most artistic fea- was the modelling, paper cutting, fold ing, designing, border making, etc., which showed commendable beginning in the line of manual training. The Lugonia itable work in sewing and drafting on paper.
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LITERARY NOTES.

Leon Daudet is at work upon bios- raphy of his father.
 sThe Londoners'' is the title of Robert Hichens' new satirical novel, to be out this spring with Herbert s. Stone & Co., of Chicago.
 Rumors that H. Rider Haggard was at uork on a new novel are now confirmed. The book is to be a historical romance with the scene laid in Holland at the time of William of Orange.
 Copeland & Day will shortly bring out q volume of poems by Ambrose Bierce. C. P. Putnam's Sons have just published MT. Bierces ''In the Midst of Life," in cluding '.Tales of Soldiers and Civil ians."
 Professor Robert Herrick, who occupies the chair of English literature in the Uni versity of Chicago, has written novel which Is to be published shortly by the Macmillan Company under the title of "The Gospel of Freedom"
 Bernard Shaw, who is called the clever est dramatic critic and playwright in England. is about to bring out an edition of his dramatic works. He calls them Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant" Two volumes will be issued late in February by Herbert s. Stone & Co. of Chicago. Mr. Shaw has written preface, mainly about myself he adds.
 During the last three years William Black has been engaged upon a novel which is now near completion. The title will be "Wild Eelin; otherwise called Eelin of the Eyes Like the Sea-Wave: Her Escapades, Adventures and Bitter Sorrows" The serial publication of this work is to begin this month. Harper & Brothers will publish in the spring a new | volume of his short stories.
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written a DOCK en- titled American Wives and English Husbands" which was originally ad- vertised under the name of Millions of Bubbles" and will be published simul- taneously in Eng land and in this country. The fair Gertrude possesses a trenchant pen, as s an Franciscans l.poxy at their COSt