The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-03

prominence. Before I fell into their clutches was an obscure and self-re- specting man, peacefully pursuing the even tenor of my way. unwept, unnum- l bered and unsung, with no reputation
 outside of my immediate family and not much of a, one there. Now. thanks to
 them and to their anxiety to get rid of
 my book, my life has become one long nightmare. My bilious and dejected countenance stares responsibility at me 1 from every Sunday newspaper and pa tent insider. My hitherto untarnished
 name flames on every fence, billboard and ash-barrel. I am in receipt of let ters from widows in reduced circum- stances, asking me to contribute toward
 the expenses of their daughters musi-; cal education. I am invited to lay cor ner-stones, sign autographs, buy tickets
 to church sociables and colored or
 phans' clambakes, and receive offers of
 marriage from women who are willing
 to take long chances
 As-is well said of "A Few Remarks" 1 1t is book of irresistible humor with a
 laugh on every page. Price s1.OO; for sale by the Pease-Lewis Go.
 Of Professor Dexter's "Yale Biog-
 rapher and Annals" the New York
 Evening Post says:
 pr. Franklin B. Dexter's great task
 in emulation of Sibley's Harvard Bio- | graphies' now completes the parallel in
 number of volumes. The third of his Yale Biographies and Annals Henry Holt & Co.) covers the period 1763-1773, | midway in which President Clap's re- signation was at last brought about, and an effective hold secured on the general assembly's annual bounty through the import duty on rum and I otherwise). At the very close. Presi- ! dent Stiles appears upon the scene, and
 pr. Dexter's familiarity with his diary
 and personality warrants deep regret if ! this series is not to be continued, for
 want of tirne and strength, over Dr. Stiles incumbency, so much would, the
 Annals prefixed to the biographies of each class be enriched and it is largely
 in them that we find the savor of the decade under consideration in the pres
 ent volume. Thus. for the. college year l 1172-B a formal commencement debate
 is recorded on the, advanced question | Whether the Education of Daughters I be not, without any just reason, more neglected than than of Sons?" And the future Governor Oliver Wolcott, Jr., is l cited for a description of gownless 1 freshmen fin the yard'' (not yet cam
 pusl made to flag, out of study hours. as walters or servants to the Authority, President, Professors Tutors and Un- dergraduates." Yet already, five years before, the alphabetical arrangement of
 the catalogue of each class had super seded that according to social rank. Dr. Dexter is at pains to set down the I traces of an early anti-slavery con I science. For example, the Rev Ebene-
 ger Baldwirl's newspaper essays, "Ob- l servations on the Slavery of Negroes 1 and on Slave-keeping" (1T73-4), through
 twelve years behind John Woolman's l Considerations on the Keeping of Ne
 groes,'' took what was at that time ad- vanced ground in condemnation of \ slavery" The Rev. Elam Potter and his classnate, Judge Theodore sedg- l wick, were also in the same honorable I company, in benevolent feeling and ac- I ton at least. To be remarked, further, I is the mortality of wives, and the ! proneness, especially among the clergy, to triple marriages. One feels the vest ! ward migration from the coast to inte-
 rior New England, to Wyoming (Pa.),
 to western New York, to Ohio. Manas- I sch Cutler, class of 1765, is one of the
 leading names in this section. Others
 are Jared IngersolI, the mathematical I Dr. Nathaniel Emmons, Judge John I Trumbull (author of 'McF'ingalo, Presi- dent Timothy Dwight and General Hull. Few are the graduates regarding whom
 something has not been gleaned even l if as meagre as William Giles invento- ry--a suit of clothes and nine books. On but one is the biographer's censure loosened unreservedly, the infamous" l Rev. Samuel Ely, fomenter of Shay's rebellion. Dr. Dexter's performance is
 consistent, accurate and authoritative, l highly to be praised in every respect,
 especially for the bibliographies. A pi-
 ous complement to his labors would be. I an album of portraits of his graduates. | He notices them wherever he can; many exist in printed works, and Yale I owns now a few. They should be got I together. ,v
 I The new volume of poems by Rud- I yard Kipling-the first collections since