The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-26
eUEsTIoNs AND ANsWERs.

~. WAnhHR OLhAboH,
John Company. tho Honorable East India Com
pAny. once was sole proprietor OF 90 much as Hin
duStan might be msde 10 yield BY sedulous shaking
Of the pagoda tree. The India merchants nrst
received their charter In 1900, In 1900 II was made
perpetual and they were settled in a monopoly
Of the Indian trade. By this charter they were
empowered y maintain an army and q navy and
. political system Of their own whereby the India
Council In London's LeAdenhAll street exercised
q wider sway than did the Parliament OF Great
Britain In Westminsters Palace of st. Stephen.
1 nvAl COMPANY was chartered during the Eng
llsh revolution. but In 1908 the Two trading es,1n-
Mshments were LmalgamAted. In 1884 Pitt fathered
an India measure which took away from the Hon
orable East India Company Its political powers.
In 1918 the trade monopoly whs rescinded, In 1884
the whole of The company's trading rights were
swept away In return for an annuity Of eSa0.000
payable for forty years, redeemable At the end Of
Its term. at the Governments option. for Eil.UI,-
600. The mutiny broke out before the term had
run much more than half Its course and In 1854
when that grave revolt was put down the com
pany was dissolved and Hindustan passed To the
sovereignty OF the crewn. The days OF John
Company were not inElonouS days, for they were
the days OF such men as Give and Warren Hastings,
OF Lawrence and Wellesley.
Yesterday ! noted that an English reviewer of a
Law book written by an American author strongly
reprobates this expression: Lord Mansfield under
CentuTy Dictionary states that the word resurrect
IS colloquisi. il must, however. be ID very general
whom have spoken Is Offended By y i. j + have BEEN
Eondenng Il good literary prscedents could not
Smd SrSd aSS Sl.s Il lS'U " fsoUrnl.d q s ane TGaG iSSna
T. A. STREET.
The fault upon which objection 10 the word 10
based Is that II ls formed by analogy where DO
analogy exists. As protection. for an instance,
Is naturally derived from protect, q trAndtive
verb. II has been assumed that under resurrection
must similarly be . t~ransltive verb 70 resurrect.
This is not the case; resurrection is'a dertvative
form of the Latin reSuroere, a neuter verb. ReBur-
rect is for that reason objected 70 In England and
has obtained no currency, although the custodians
Of that branch OF our common speech seem 70
manifest no hesitation In employing resurrectioner,
In which the same fault obtains. Bartlett. In dis
cusSinG the word as an Americanisn. derives his
earliest citation from Benton'S "A~bridgment OF the
Debates OF Congress-" Vol. VI, where In speaking
OF the founders OF the Government. who are all
gone-their bodies buried In the earth. their works
buried under rubbish and their names beginning
TO fade away" this author adds: Il resurrect the
whole"
A writer uses the expression Nothing new
under the sun" except that he substitutes the
be placed before the word something" or before
preston In bis book read something new under
the SUM-" or something new under the SUM-
II ' ~
The marks OF quotation serve to set out plainly so
much OF the matter as 10 In form the direct words
OF another. Therefore there could be no ~jusllncs-
ton for including within such marks the state
ment something new under the sun" when II
was thoroughly understood that the original state
ment was nothing new under the sun" II should
In strict propnety read something new under
the sun: and in that case II seems scarcely worth
the dignity of quotation marks. II used TO be
held that the commonplace Of Scripture might
be used without assignment of credit on the ground
that they were thoroughly familiar to everybody,
but perhaps It may be just as well 20 restore the
typoGra phical signs because of the growing feeling
that the Bible is by no means so familiar as once
IL was.
what Is the origin OF shack as applied TO a house
the West. II. T. DAVIS.
The Century Dictionary assigns IL TO a dlalectlc
senss Of the verb TO shack. slgnIfytng to hole up.
as an animal about TO hibernate. This seems
better 70 Mt the form OF the noun than its mean
ing. As the word Is wholly American and when
nrxi found comes out OF the West It Is not az all
unlikely that the pioneers adopted the word from
their Mexican neighbors. The Spanish Of Texas
and the whole Southwest clear through TO Call
fornia has the word jacsl for just such a dwelling
hastily thrown together of all sorts OF Immediately
material. From Its proper pronuncia-
ton OF hacal 10 shack calls for no greater degree
OF violence than marked the general demeanor
OF the Grtngo 10 the Greaser. This derivation
nnds support in the fact that the expected inter
mediate form shackle has, though infrequcntly.
been noted in Westeu speech.
have a friend whose tenure OF the letter H is
they will drop out of his speech in
nngusrded moments. Do you know of anything
that | may tell him that will stick In mind and
cause him to mind, not p and 9. but ~
Probably a hopeless case. II oongenltsl. and
seldom is a lasting cure possible unless the case
be taken In hand early. Charles Stuart Cslverley
once dealt with the topic, thus:
Choose judlciousiy thy friends; for to discard them
is undesirable.
Yet It ls better 10 drop thy friends, o my daughter,
than 10 drop Thy HIS"
or one may cite from Catullus that Roman Arrius
who picked up superintendent HIS. another form
of the same faulty speech. and has gone on record
as calling the lonian Sea Hionian.
.xcited BY statue 10 butter. Who was the sculptor,
md what was the subject of the compositlon' !
WALTER II. GRAY.
The sculptor was Mrs. Caroline S. Brooks, wife
ofA Missouri farmer; the subject was the sleeping
dono IN alto rilievo. She had done similar
work al county fairs and these successes led her
% make an entry at Philadelphia. In the Paris
X position her entry of the same subject was re-
.ected for the art exhibit but admitted among the |
iairy products. Her iolanthe was reproduced In
for the Chicago fair. In addition she did
Iome little work In character and portrait busts.
,utter being used as the modelling material.
Are the following parts embodied in sentences
dramatically correct: we would endeavoT you, |
o kindly, &C." and and the consent OF the owner
lbsolutely necessary, &C." the verb Is, under
Itood In the latter? THOMAS HENRY.
As 10 the latter there can be no objection II the
'lause be otherwise properly inserted into the
ehtence. The former Is doubly defective; the
,pIit innnitive TO kindly" Ia rarely tOlerable, and
he unwarranted Use OF endeAvOr as a transitive
eTb with personal object will not stand analysis. J
Kindly advise II the Mlkado OF Japan has become
convert 10 the Christian faith, or II you ever
leArd OF saw anything 10 that effect,
5, LELAND.
The Mlkado lie not Christian. II there were any
ioubt as TO this point II should be ~dispelled by re-
the terms In which Togo ascnbed 10 his
virtues the victory Of Ills feet.
What Is the salary OF Mr.. Bryce. the Brtt,h Am
,assadori WILLIAM EoINToN,
His salary Is stated al $4,000. In addition his
supplies him with the embassy for a
and maintains II and provides an enter
Iinment allowance and various smaller funds.
Who ia the author Of the quotation about never a
Aw Of God or man runs NORTH OF 53'' \, y.
RudySrd KlpllnF.