The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-29

Interest than value was elaborated In three years
work Of Il palnstaklng compiler and given TO the
world In Horne'S introduction TO the study oi the
Scriptures" The figures refer to the King James
version:
.oo,, re'a%,n. r"ss%cM, 7o'ss,.
Chapters. p2S ?O l.lS9
Letters, .,.,.2 ,Szs,ioS $3.50 a],5d6,1iSs
The similar record for the Apocrypha is: BOOKS, IA:
chapters. 1888; verses. 6.o3l; words, l25 1855; letters.
l,003. $40, Similar statistics arc the following. The
middle line is found In II. Chronicles, w., 10. The
middle verse Is Psalms, cSviii., 3. The middle
chapter is Psalms. evil. and that is the shortest
chapter as well. The shortest verse is John. a., 81.
The longest verscis II Esther, viii. o. In Ezra, VII, 81.
occur all the letters of the alphabet save j.
There was a wen ys5y spirited dlscnssion recently in
memory dear" Can you place IL S SIC
The song with that title WIS written and COM
posed by George Linley u7aS-lse5l for Augustus
brsham somewhere about 1880. The first stanza
10 this:
Tho lost TO sight. TO mem'ry dear
Thou ever wilt remain;
One only hope my henrt can cheer-
The hope TO meet ne sin.
And In the last stanza the same thought recurs In
the Inverted order:
Yet tho thy smile be lost to sight,
To mem'ry thou ART dear.
A song with the same title was published in Lon
don In 1880. purportlng TO have been written by
Ruthven Jenkyns In 1903 and published In the
Magazine for Mariners, No such magazine
existed then or later. and The author OF the hoax
later made acknowledgment. Linley will be re.
membered for another sentimental piece, Ever
OF thee I'm fondly dreaming"
I made use OF the expression 1T occurred at a
ysry inaprop9s .ime% in reference to he smoking
before breakfast. il was mildly ridiculed and
goodnaturedly denounced as being neither elegant
nor appropriate, Now, was | really wrong
With SCOT In his porrldge a man certainly may
be pardoned q aggression from the standards of
elegance In diction, for there are moments when
the surcharged soul is ready to trarnple on rhetoric.
and when the SCOT settles on the hominy Is surely
such q moment. In any condition less calamitous
tnapropos must be ruled out Of court, for II is neither
ash nor desh nor good red herring. II the intelll
gence incllnes toward q little French. maapropos
is called for. II the English tendency is uppernost,
Inappropriate. infeiicitous or iropportune should
AFFORD ample choice for the shading Of comment.
But under conditions such az are described It may
well be that most mems dictlon woul d be character
tied more by rugged orthodoxy and vivid theology
than by the graces OF style.
houses" In Wal! street speech? {. II. W.
Arbitrsge is a financial game whereby advantage
Is taken Of the difference In price OF a commodity
as between any two markets, The tendency In
prices In these days OF rapid communication is
toward a nat ngure, but as the quotations do not
Immediately fall into agreement all alert intelli-
gence may be able 10 sell In the nigh market and
buy in the low with proAt. This will be possible only
when the simultaneous prices differ by an amount
greater than the commission on the transaction
and the cost OF transmitting the order. and. OF
course, the order must be placed and executed
with the utmost prom ptness so that the transaction
may be completed before price equilibrium has
been established.
What Is meant by The saying, the Seven Wonders
Antiquity was mol wholly In accord In c~lasslnca.
ton OF the seven most remarkable creations Of
human ingenuity. The most commonly accented
list comprises the Egyptian Pyramids. the Mauso-
leum OF Artemisla the temple OF ArtemIsa ~ phesus,
the Hanging Gardens OF Babylon, the Colossus Of
Rhodes. the statue of ZeuS at Oily np,a aud the
Pharos Of Alexandria, Probably our modern steel
construction In architecture surpasseS most Of the
buildings mentioned In wonder qualities.
Belgrade" and now wish to asS, II there Is any
distinct designation for verse of that description.
namely, where each word In the line has the same
Initial. II. u. WARBEN,
In English rhetorical nomenclature It Is TO be
comprised under the general name OF ALTERATION.
The French have a specific term for It, nrae Srnte.
verse In which each word in the linz begins with the
same letter. This from q, Marot viii serve as au
Illustration:
Ccst Clement contre chagrln CLIQUE,
Et est Eticnne aveillt, cnJout.
rou.S 'es, .c. , yB;Sn 10Th The sisn, lines oG;.G Of 0ay 4,
complete the work. From The Columbian orator,
complied BY Caleb Bingham. Boston, 1907; sixth
member mem eq'! "spou,lns~ these Sepp'ii lines es' about bout is, we'i and nd,
as you say, they are too good TO be forgotten.
SBSEK.
You'd scarce expect ono OF my age
To speak in public on the stage;
And II ! chance to fall below
Demosthenes or Cicero.
Don't view me with a critics eye
But pass my imperfectlons by.
Large streams from little fountains now;
Tail oaks from Nttlo acorns grow:
And though | now am SINAI and young.
OF Judgment weak. and feeble tongue.
We, all great learned men. like me.
Once lcam'd TO read their A, b, C..
But why may not Columhia's soil
Rear men as great as BHtain's Isle,
Exceed what Greece and Rome have done.
or any land beneath the sun?
Mayn't Massachusetts boast as great
As any other sister State?
Or where's tho town, go far and near,
That does not hnd a rival here?
or where's tho boy. but three feet high,
Who's made Improvements more than ~
These thoughts inspire my youthful mind
To be the greatest OF mankind;
Great, not like Cesar. stand with blood:
But only great, as am good.
Lake Cham plain. In the correspondents column
I noticed a query from A, K. c. in reference 10 an
old song. Andrew Jackson Allen played the charac-
ter OF Gunbo In tho play Tho Battle Of Lake
ChAmplain," produced In the old Green Street
Theatre In Albany In the year 1915, and sang a
song OF mary verses that was quite popular for n
time. have a record, however, Of bit two
"Backside Albany, stan Lake Champlaln.
Lilly Pond, half full OF water:
Plattburg dar too. close pom de main
Town small. but be grow big hereafter
ON Lake Champisin Uncle sam he set he boat.
And Massa Marlborough he sail um.
While Glneral McCorub make PlattShurg he homs
W1d de army whose courage neither fsl UNI"
No less an authority than Sol Smith SAYS Of this
ditty. 1T was In ell probability the trst negro song
ever suns on the American stage
NAT MccARrr.