The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-23

Wther BseGs.
- The certain conde~c~p-Ion- With which
The English regard Americans will be
found IN the observations OF an intelligent
,.r-orian student 4 GeorGetts Bo~den-
@emith's An English Students Wander
Z. Year IN America ,Edw ard Arnold: Long
rnsns. Green and Company, though the
sbumbar II things she got right n'tnum-
.hers that ~ her Misunderstanding and
art,IAl ui-tAke~ Whether she can make
sthe information she acquired fully com
ArYehensIhle ~ her cnIntryw omen l. per-
ahAre doubtful americans will b~ inter
3ested IN seeing themselves and their inSsi-
kt'rions Described a. they themselves de-
,snrib~ foreign lands The chief cause
.cf errrr a. usual - zeneralizing from too
.{fs~ INSTANCES II - a lit'le dinfcult tn
understand f~r eNSmrl~ how at any ~
fthe larger college, which admit students
VITO higher standing an fnglish degree
rshculd 10 itsrsgAr,i~d or an examiner
should insist m the -peC,ti~d requirements
tn Latin. VI hen the candidate - able ~ read
~ atin eAAilv at sight The authors
linveetiRafionA Nere not confined 20 the
A~ollegee and their studies. she looked
Alao into home life. eSshetlcs. religion.
agricultural training. expenses. charity
and settlement work. the public schools
and the newspaper She took particular
interest IN vhe Elmirs ReforrnAtOry I'm
many 81 theee subjects her views are
rnavoidably colored nv those ~ an
thusiAstic infornants. and = longer A.
auaintance might have shown her the
difference between What - AIMED at and
~har is actually accomplished Her
pant Of view - academic. hut she tells
her oountry-SorDen many things that
should interest them
In -Th@ Two knights ~ tho swan.
Lohengrin and Helyas- 90. y P,tnarn's
sorEN Robert JaFray traces the origin
~ the legend made familiar through
wagners opera Tho G.,rman prem s
fret found IN Wolfram Won Eschanhachs
'Parsival- bar 'S taken from -nne CARRIER
roen In the port ~ -Parr.vsl- that
ChrStien Dc Iruyee himself wrote u doves
not occur The story IL found IN a r,or.
ron ~ -Le Chevalier an CyKne- whsr,.
the swan knight - called Heiyas Mr
Janray gives = conplets sCcount ~ the
evidence regarding the date ~ the po~na
and ther relative antiquity IN such =
form that laymsn can easily follow the
argument He - inclined 10 riga nj the
Helyas form a. the earlier ~ tho two
n u thorough and Interesting little
unonograph
A handsome aud ~nmpIeta edit I'm -
The Works 81 Christopher Mariowe-
Gomez from tho Clarendon Prr-s-. Oxford
Henry Frowde. N"w NorkI Tho editor
&C. ,. Turksr Bronke IT Yala University
The teri has heeu cnllsts-d with that ~
the original editions and, u ~ hop.-i j.
almost faultl~-s The variants an. at the
bottom ~ the page Zach work IL pre-
coded nv brief Introduction Tho
ob;ect Of providing tha student With an
accurste and convenient text Of MarIowe
has Certainly baen attained.
There " a good deal ~ the Information
which every one IL supposed to know
but few persons know accurately in
Humphrey Robinson's a simple Explana-
lion NJ Modern Ranking Customs" ,SmaII.
Maynard and Company. Boston,. Banker.
ran learn nothing from IL. hut others NAV
have many misconceptions removed by
rpading il. There are still TO he found
business men. for instance. who put away
checks a. though they were money
instead OF deposi,inR them at once.
Pleasant articles describing nature.
aome u which first appeared in the Boston !
ErenRg TraRSey,ps make up Winthrop
Packard's Woodland Paths CsmAII, !
Maynard and Company. They carry the /
reader through March. April and May. /
telling 81 flowers and birds and meets.
and occasionally OF less poetic animals. !
Mr. CopelAnds wood cuts are excellent.
4 collection Of sketches Of Eminent
Negro Men and Women has been made BY |
John Edward Bruce CGazetts Press. Yon- |
kers. y. ". Il ~ by no means complete /
'tnd We imagine will b. followed by others. !
Where Pushkin - included. for instance.
here should he room too for Alexandra /
Dumas. Interesting A. many Of the hi !
nGraphies are they hardly s-em 90 Offer !
suficiert material for the long list - |
Questions appended to each
An anthology 81 the verv latest |
pets s published under the title The |
Younger Choir" Moods Publishing Com |
rany. New York.. with a kindly introcuc- !
gun nv Mr. Edwin Markham. lie assures |
~ that IT - comforting to know that our
America has never been left without her |
IEets the afiirInrrs "a beauty and duty. |
the votArie- 1t vision There are thirty
ia y"io"- Ia the choir; they al sing re- !
sTectdtIly -oTns meiOdo,I-ly. b,It No fail /
80 discover a note that rts-- abovs the re- I
q,Iir.m"Dts e magazine verse
The intention ~ superior - the sxec,i. 1
Lon ~ JOAN Trotwood Moora- verse. /
"a The Old Cotton Gin uha John 1, /
Winston Company. Philadelphia. and the |
same, -" fear. must h- said " th. iII,,-. !
tnAiions.
An address delivered ~ Syracuse I,v |
Co@@i.s.0ner VI Education, Andrew