The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-01-05
OUT AND ABOUT.

The volume of Emerson's Select Is
says and Poems.' which Miss Eva
March Tappan of the English high
school has been preparing, appeared
early this week from the press of Allyn
& Bacon, well-known school book
publishing house of Boston. 1t contains
100 pages, of which twelve are occupied
by notes, the greater part of the book
being occupied by the text of three es-
says Compensation Self Reliance"
and "Manners"-and ten poems, the
longest Of which is "Woodnotes." The
whole is preceded by a delightfully."-
written little biographical sketch and
literary appreciation of Emerson, which
concludes with the following para
graph
Emerson is not one of those writers
that can be labelled and shipped COM
forrabfy into their proper literary pig
eon-holes. Call him a philosopher, and
he flashes forth as a, poet. Say that with
him the thought is all, the expression
naught, and suddenly his direction be-
comes. as Lowell phrases it, "homespun
cloth OF gold" Say that his thoughts
md their best Illustration in the simple
life Of New England, and 10! he has an
inspiration that only the poetry of the
land of roses, wine and nightingales''
will enable him to embody. Saw that
his words are old and familiar and
presto. he has slipped AWAY into some
fourth dir1ensiop of tba Ia.,d &c
thought; say that they are new and h.
mold! he is but revealing to us the Sc
crets of our own innermost heart. Call
MIN poet, Philosopher, Puritan liberal
what you will,-but if you have learned
to know him. Won vial own with Io1,
that a message has been sent r. 1; 1UI
and that you have been at the "TIo,1sa
of the interpreter. ''
Novel as the idea of TEACHING the
most transcepdental of Anerican or
thors to pupils of high sohooI ., 1a W.
seem, it has in fact been very S1Iceaes,
fully and practically deyeloned nv Miss
Tappan. THIS book is one If tbe A.
rect results OF an experiment triad Nv
her last year in the Enelisb bio.,
school Then, as in this case the a.
tention NJ ~ - ~ 'Aua ease, tue at
some of the most ciear si in, ~
vital of Emerson's Writings sud r. ~
principles and thouehts IF Troo+i.aI
significance UNDERLYING them no T,'a
thought of practical v9Iue and .r,aii
cation to the lives of voung neonIe Ia
been the guiding rnofiya in ar soiaa9
ton of the compositions 70 he st7,die5
and in the cboins ns M ~ pe stuuleu
the text. which are niacoS a+ ~ eIt ~
the pages In the case Of the nrosa - u
among the notes in ~ " tti
poems and are fha most oriesira1 f oiie
lure Of tba e6i+ion VI . maj Ae"-
For Instance tha fo11o,,,i,o ,,,.-4.....
offer sIIggaatio,e 81, .ts oiI
meat Prom, na,,a oo,,1, ~ .tS a. tIiIs eile
tion,' .UTb,J h of,ea4,at s e IIE,
is cheap studv2 Wbv ~ 1,ls " ny ~,
much r.. e. 40 we pay so
more than tbe sailor9 Vyhe slte a oap' am
thief steal from himself? If bnv
cams nothing from his study but abili-
ios.S P ge examination what does he
and 10 60 80 Poy q ihSh LOT sooo work
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Iosso re - titeu YOU may gam from the
na5d ~ 'Ie pooi Workman IS poorly
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et,,are. "a 1g NE IdPPahs editlng may be
e,s1iioit nc notes Whlle suinclently
80. ~ % ai Iot congested' me pupil
,IlC,e AZ I tl5e "oEA Tor hunselt, and the
~, itsa epiS . anu Widely ne can draw
az ny s " anu hlhl-the lie Of the spirit
Iiu Ui rUTiiiiois e&peflehce-the better
From all of which If will he gatraAad
that it rs for no perf,,notorv o,. soleI1
literary acquaintance with Enersoy,
combines scholariiness with "A sense
OF the practical and a willingness,
so 80 ne. ma, rare IN EDITORS Of text books,