Arizona republican., 1901-07-18

result of the intense heat, He was 5s years old.
 Prof Fislle formerly was connes ted with Harvard as teacher of philoso- phy. but for eighteen years had been only a member of the beard of over seera. John Ffske. when years old. was reading Caesar and had read Rol- lin Josephus and Goldsmith's Greece. Before he was years old he had read the whole of Sheakespeare and a good deal of Milton. Bunyan and Pope, He began Greek at g. By II he had read Gibbon, Robertson and Prescott. and most of Froissart, and at the same age | wrote from memory a chronOlogt, al ta- ble from R. c. 1000 to A. D. 1920, filling a quarto blank book of sixty pages. At r. years he had read most of the colec- tansa Craeca Majora, by the aid of a ' Greek Latin dictionary. and the next year had read the whole of Virgil. Hor- ! ace. Tacitus, Sallust and Suctonius. and much of Llvy. Cicero, Ovid. Catullus and Juvenal. At the sama time he had | got through Euclid. plane and spherical 1 trieOnometry. surveying and naviga- ton. and analytical geometry. and was ! | At Ia years he could read Plato and II He- rodotus at sight and was beginning | German. Within the next year he was | ke ping his diary in Spanislh, and was reading French Italian and Portuguese. | He began Hebrew at l7 yaa's, and took up Sanskrit the next year. Meanwhile | thls omnivorous reader was delvlng in | science. getting Els knowledge from | booN1. and not from laboratory or the | field He averaged twelve hours study daily. twelve months in the year. be- fore h was l6. an1 afterwards nearly | fifteen hours daily, working with per si.ttnt energy: yet he maintained the most robust health and entered with spiI't into out-of-door sports.
 ' Mir. Fiske was gr lduate of Harvard. i His mother. then a widow. married Ed ward w. Stoughton. once United States minister to Russia, when the boy was ! lS years old. Up to this time the lads name had been Edmund Fiske Green. ' hut he now took the nams of his ma | terral great grandfather. John Fiske,
 Mir. Flske opened law office in BOs- ton and found it a convenient place for studying history while he waited six months for clients. Then he mad up hi- mind to devote himself exclusively to literature. He had already done something in that line. In 1881. when he war a Junior In college, he contrib uted to the National Quarterly Review an article entitled MT. Buckles Falla- cies. which is now included in his "Darwinism. and Other Essays" MT f Fiskes first book. which was preceded by many essays in reviews magazines and ewspapeTs. was Myths and Myth Makers" published in 1872 This was followed in 1874 by work which immediately attracted notice 3n En- gland and ths United states-'Outlines of Cosmlc Philosophy" This work was bassd upon a series of lectures which Mir Fiske had delivered at Harvard fin 1869 and 1871. and which he repeated in Boston. New York and London.
 It was an exposition of the new phil osophy. founded on the doctrine of evo- Iutlon. Other volumes of essays on phil osophiCal. historical and literary topics followed-"The Unseen World and 9th CT Essays" ''Darwinism and Other Es- gays" and the pair of little books The Destiny of Man" and It's sequel, ''The Idea of God" The last ten years of his life Mr. Fiske devoted his time almost exclusively to American his tory. and the be auty of his style and the philosophical spirit with which he traced cause and effect in the develop ment of political ideas gives a fascinat- Ing interest to his historical works. These are; "Ame ricln Political Ideas. ''The Critical Period of American His tory l7SS-l7s9." "'rhe Beginnings of New England" and, in the Riverside Library for Young People. "The War of Independence" "The Ame rIcan Revolu- tfon. "The Discovery of America" United States History for Schools. Life of Edward L. Youmans." 'Old Virginia and Her Neighbors'' and Civil Government of the United States"