The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-25
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While generous youth, mostly against
| its will. struggles on the school benches
| with the complications Of arithmetic the
| burdensone tables Of weights and measures
and foreign coinage, It would be improper,
we suppose, TO betray the fact that grown
| up men In real business are not troubled with
sums Of that sort. We never would have
bothered with the Connecticut rule and the
New York rlle for computing interest II
we had known that banks kept books Of
interest tables which do away with the need
OF doing sums and eliminate the possibility
Of pers onal mistakes In figuring. Here we
have a volume OF 100 plR 8 dealing with
the simple problem Of turning dollars into
pounds and pounds into dollars in Dollar
Exchange Tables Between the United States
Of America and Great Britain" by Z. l..
Heavingham George Routledge and Sons;
E. P. Dutton 4 Coz. The tables are made
out for every variation in exchange be-
tween four shillings and four shillings two
pence for the dollar and between $3.50 and
$3.50 for the pound, and a table is pro-
yided giving values for every sum from
one dollar TO a hundred, carried to seven
places Of decinals and for every variation
in the market between the limits set that
amounts TO one-eighth Of a cent or one thirty
second OF a penny. Youth may learn from
this that II exchange sums are not COM
pllcated they are certainly close.
1t would DO a blessing il publishers in
issuing well known books in a new shape
would indicate what are the changes they
have made The History of the United
States CHarpers) in one volume by Thomas
Wentworth Higginson and William Mac
Donald. Is so far as we can make out Col.
Higginson's excellent and approved Young
Folks History" that first saw the light
quarter OF century ago, revised and
brought up TO date. The space needed to
bring the reader from Andrew jackson to
Theodore Roosevelt odds fully fourth in
bulk to the volume and as in these years
fall the abolition times and the civil war,
Col. Higginson's views are especially valu-
able. More recent history is marked by
Judgments from the standpoint OF the
various reforms in which the Colonel has
been Interested. The Characterization Of
William Mckinley after his death as an
"astute politician is none too charitable
Another Of the made up books to which
Miss Esther Singleton attaches her name
is published by Dodd, Mead Co. This
time il is sVerice." II consists Of a number
OF process pictures generally Of stereo-
typed views. with text selected from great
writers Ruskin. naturally, Is the frst Of
these. but the editor shows moderation in
limiting herself to eight selections. j. A.
Symonds, Horatio + Brown, with Taine,
Gautier and Yriarte supply the greater
number Of other selections.
Musicians usually have hard luck with
their biogrDphers. and Beethoven" ODodd
Mead d Coz whom George Alexander
Fischer has written up il no exception
1t is a record Of the composers works, with
a perfunctory abatement Of what was hap
pening to Beethoven at the time. The
writer seems incapable Of seeing the man,
and 20 shun precise statement Of tiograph-
icai facts. There is no excuse for attach
ing to the biography an essay on 'Wagner's
Indebtedness 70 Beethoven
Whatever the object Of Miss Helen Gould's
sporting offer Of prizes for the best essays
on The Origin Of the Bible Approved
by tho Roman Catholic Church, and that
on She American Revised Version IL
certainly seems as though an excessive
price had been paid for the three prize
winners which are published with the title
Roman Catholic and Protestant Bibles
Conpa red bible Teachers Training School.
New York;, edited by Melancthon Williams
Jacobus D. D. The chief discovery seems
10 be that the Catholic Scriptures include
some books which are regarded as apoc-
rypha by Protestants, q fact which might
have been ascertained without awarding
81 600 prizes. The essays are mainly biblio-
graphical: the one that took first prize Ia
marked by a bigotry which fully explains
the refusal Of Catholics 10 serve on The
committee Of award, and justifes Catholics
in their general ahsJention from the COM
petition.