The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1904-07-15
FOR OUR PUBLIC
HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY.

The Department of History an
Literature, over which Mrs. Nan
ME 6. Carter presides with digni
ty and scholarly ability, has beel
greatly strengthened by the pur
chase of recent publication whicI
will be of marked value to th
school. The wide range of th
work makes it available alons
many lines requiring accurate in
formation, especially in History
and Literature. Character sketch
es of Poetry, Fiction, Romano,
and Drama by a distinguished Ok
ford scholar, Rev. Gotham Brew
err, LII. D., has range of valuable
information that cannot be found
in any other work of similar char.
acter.
To give the reader better idea
Of the real value Of the work, we
will state that in history and liter
ature the student is constantly
running across illusions which the
most cleverly edited texts do not
explain and therefore leave the
reader in doubt. This failure on
the part of the editor and very
often on the part of the teacher, is
precluded entirely when the stu
dent is in possession of, or has
access to, this valuable work.
In it we have complete sketches
of poetry, drama, romance and fc-
ton running back to the tragedies
of Homer, through the tragedies
of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Eu-
ripides. 1t makes the student IA
miliar with those poetic figures
which were not only the creations
of Greek imagination, but were
the expression of their ideals and
aspirations; for to the Greek,
mythology and poetry were vital
part of life.
The figures that move through
The Aeneid; stories Of the Nibe-
Iungen Lied which form the fore.
ground of German poetry and
drama: the Divine Comedy of
Dante, the great epic of English
verse Paradise Lost and Paradise
are all fields from which
The author has gathered a wonder
jul summary. Over five hundred
characters are treat
ID in the work, with valuable in
in reference to the
sources or originality of plots,
late of publication, etc. The
modern dramas of Goldsmith,
Bulwer, Rostand and
Phillips, are brought to the atten-
ion of the student by vital char
lcterization. Moreover these val
liable books contain the Sagas and
Iddas of Icelandic and NorsIandic
iteratures; the great and minor
operas, emphasizing their sources
n a pictorial and literary sense.
Poetic Characterization brought |
Town from its earliest creation,
Trough the literature of Germany,
france, Italy, England and our
'wn country to the present time.
The personalities that have been
by the realism of Balzac,
Dickens, Scott, Fielding, Eliot,
'hackeray, Hugo and Tolstoi, are
e-sketched with accuracy and con-
iseness.
The illustrations of these vol
mes cover q field of valuable sug-
estion, are of superior workman
hip, chosen from the best models,
Illustrate lofty thought and should
reate in the minds of our students
be highest ideals.
1t is the intention of the associa-
on to purchase a number of
hoice volumes and to place same
n the shelves in the library Tor
le use principally of the high
,hool students.
The writer predicts that the
me is not far off when the Board
18th its accustomed progressive
ess will, after the custom of other
ties, make an annual appropria-
on to be used in building up a
library for our high