The record-union., 1898-04-10

Ae Sdlu, IN MS most SOOQ-nuIlOfeu Way,
but you know how they manage these
things in France. Emile was really
natural son of the great scholar. and
they call that a nephew This L
stoutly denied, for never was more
irreproachable pere de famille than my
friend and master Eugene Burnouf.
But in spite of all remonstrances, Emile
remained with Arnold the son of Eu-
gene; For, you see, my good fellow
know the French, and that is my view
of the matteri' If that happened in the
green wood, what would happen in the
dry!"-From Professor Max Mullers
"Auld Lang Syne."
New York Evening Post: One of the
surest marks of the youthful writing
of great poeticaI geniuses is a ready
sensitiveness to 1.-The beautiful dallying
of earth and heaven" 1t is true o1
the typical young poet, as it was Of
Wordsworth You have only to turn
to the earliest poems of Tennyson, OF
Browning of Lowell, to find the veri-
fication of this truth leaping to eaten
the eye from almost every page. Now
it is certainly curious that Mr.. Kip
ling's poetry will not yield three lines
of just the suggestive quality of those
that have been quoted. 1t is not that
he is unconscious of nature, but the
human soul that through him runs is
not linked to her fair works; he is not
brooding in her presence or plastic be-
fore her touch; for him nature is the
necessary scene and setting of rude and
striving human passion, and little
more. There is nothing in him of the
contemplative spirit. This deficiency,
this popularity, whatever it be called,
gives Mr.. Kipling a distinct place
among poets of his years. The usual
order is, natural grace of manner first
delicate fancies to begin with, after
ward the deeper breath, the firmer
tread.
Miss Evelyn Ashton Fletcher of To-
ronto. Canada, has attracted some at
tention by her application of kinder
garten methods to music, and musical
educators have declared this the most
important advance yet chronicled IN
simplifying their work. Success,
telling of the development of this
scheme, says:
Miss Ashton, who was a music teach
er. took at first only advanced pupils;
but, upon accepting an offer to teach IN
a school, she found a class of begin
pers awaiting her. 1t was then she
realized the difficulty of making them
comprehend the study, since there was
no way of teaching them except the
method employed for the older pupils.
So she set to work to devise a way. Step
by step she advanced until now she
has her method complete. She has
gifts" and apparatus, just as in a
regular kindergarten, and the children
| learn. not by theory. but by seeing and
handling To them the notes in music
are tangible things, and the time marks
a natural division of objects. A child
can understand what it can see, and 1t
! knows what it builds for itself. SO
when in a series of games, by means
/ of an adjustable keyboard, it learns
| every. scale in music, both major and
minor. it will never forget them. Miss
Fletcher has had her system patented
not only in Canada and the United
! States but in all the European coun-
tries, in Japan and Australia, and she
/ is soon to open a training class for
Z
has of late years aroused so much en-
thusiasm among educators as this new
musical system devised and perfected
by an earnest, clever girl still in heI
early twenties.
On this subject the New York
Times" says The old declaration
about there being nothing new under
the sun finds constant illustration We
have before us a. circular issued IN
1879 by Miss Gertrude Jenkins of New
ton Center, Mass. (now Mrs. Paul Su-
torius of Hackensack, n. j., announc-
ing that she is ready Hto receive addl-
tional pupils to a kindergarten music
class. She wishes to take children
from to 10 years Of age. by
use of the blackboard and helpful IL
Illustrations, together with the piano
forte and by class instruction, SHE
hopes to make this early training cas-
ier. pleasanter and more thorough, anc
to relieve both parents and chlldrer
of the tedium of home practice" Mrs
Sutorius, who is still teaching music
and practicing her kindergarten sys'
tenn, says that her ten years eXperl-
ence with it has confirmed all her ex'
pectations in regard to its utility, anc
that her older pupils who have start
ed in the kindergarten make progress
which is not possible for others OF the
same age to attain without TINS pre-
liminary training.
ORATORS IN CONGRESS.