The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-01-06

He ought to be step
,ing pretty lively on this earth, and
With Il broad Hat foot too, trying TO /
,c honest and useful and loving and
rug. getting bis reward out OF tAIS
,nd OF living. not putting his eye on
larps and roScbedS and idleneSS.
DJnt misunderstood me. | believe
Il religion, bat this is nay religion
md mind you what is too namoy-
oanbg and sentimental for boys is
100 much SO for girls too. l nave no
patience with the idea that girl IS
to be fed on honeySuckle tea and kept
in an '4riary' I'LL she is married, being
then innocent which means ignorant
and totally unfit for the companion
,nip OF man with brains. SO strike
out your sentimental nonsense aud
pat something human into the hands
u yUur children.
~ an oversight Mr.. NcGhee failed
to note that the list contained several
Of the .Ncott books and this called
forth from him the following in re-
gard to these books which are 50 gen.
orally put into every school library:
Il notice that you haven't Miss Al
colts books. l never read these books
and Gever expect ro-neiJher am
sorry for that great omission, for |
have an idea that they are namoy-
pamby. Bat l have never before
heard of school library without
them:
4 BOOK FOR ALL AGES.
By an oversight OF the part OF the
committee in printing the list Plu-
tarch's Lives was left off, and this
called forth the suggestion froGl sew
eral that this should by all means be
in the list and also the following very
valuable suggestion from DR.. Bold
ridge in regard to the value thereof:
By all means get Plutarch,s Lives.
This author helped to make Shakes
peare, Napoleon, Emerson, Franklin:
Alexander Hamilton, Nathaniel
Greene and many others. Mabie is
right iu saying he furnishes p1' tr-
age for noble minds. Much can be
absorbed from him.
Through a similar oversight Web
ster's International Dictionary was
omitted from the list, and that
brought forth from all the suggestion
that no library was complete without
a standard dictionary.
REDUCING TO A PERCENTAGE BASIS.
The effort to get everything down
to a. percentage basis does not always
take. Mr.. McCants hit death blow
at this percentage craze: L teach
mathematics. but l never think in per
cents. In fact, it doesn't 50 much
matter what per cent. Of fiction, as
what tiction. how good travels, whose
history, biography. ETC.. and what IS
contained in your miscellany. l could
make up library correct in percent
ages and otherwise worthless.
Prof. WardIaw finds it easier to
place the relative values Of the dlt1er-
ent division of reading that should be
in a library than to reduce the same
to a percentage basis. He suggests
the following: Il cannot give the
per cent. but the following would be
the order of relative fullneSs: stories
whether fictitious or true), biography,
history, travel, miscellaneous.
There is considerable difference
in the answers that were given in
which the PERCENTAGE basis was made.
Prof. McLucaS suggests: Finction, 60
per cent: travel, history, biography
and miscellany, 10 each. Supt
Dreher:: Fiction, Is; travel, 30: his
tory, 30: iography, 20; miscellaneous,
). DR.. Wallace: Fiction, &c: travel,
10, history, 10: biography. -: mis-
cellaneous, emphasizing poetry, 80.
Prof. CoJk: History, biography, travel,
fiction. 10 per cent. each; miscellany,
90. Mr.. McGbee: Fiction, 10; travel,
20: history, 20: biography, 30; miScel-
laneous, 20. Prof. Morrison: Fic-
tion, 80: travel, 20; history, 20; bio
graphy' 20: miscellaneous, 10. Mel
ther DR.. Mccain nor DR.. Boldridge
found themselves able to reduce their
answers 70 / percentage basis, but
each makes a good suggestion. DR..
Mccain: The answer to this queS-
tion would depend very mncn upon
the age Of the children. DR.. Bold
ridge: = should not like to be posi-
tive in my answer to that question.
Each scholar would be special study.
One would need more of these divlsi'
ons than would another. | believe in
a good portion of each, but all should
lead up to the higher study Of history.
There is one question the answers
to which never fail to interest, and
that is the one in regard to those
books that have made lasting i'm
preston. Ga this point there is a
very considerable variation always not
only on account Of the inacceSSibility
to certain books, hut also on account
Of varying tastes that are always to
be found in children. The answers to
the question as to the three books
that had made the most lasting i'm
preston were as follows:
DR.. Mccain: Bible, Pilgrims Pro-
gress'' anc. "Weem's Marion Dr..
Pilgrims Progress, Tom
Browns School Days. Sanford and
Merton" Prof. Morrison: Pilgrims
Progress, Tom Browns School
Days, 'Eutaw." Supt. Dreher: Bible.
Tom Browns School Days: Mother
Goose Melodies. Prof Cook: Blue
back spelling book, Milton. Bible.
Prof. Wardlaw: Mayne Reid,s Ran
Away to Sea-" Young Marooners,"
Swiss Family Robinson Weem's
Life of Mariou." Mr. McCants:
Bible, Robinson Crusoe, miscellane.
ouS lot Of old histories. DR.. B0ldridge:
Life OF Henry Martini Tom
School DavS:: Sh3 keSnaarp