Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-07-22
BY WILLAn HAMILTON OSBORNE

deeply interested in the advanced work
of classical p~hilologyy He is able to
read Herodotus, Aeschylus, S~ophocles,
Euripides, A~ristophanes, Lucian and
other Greek writers with the same zest
as our schoolboy reads his Robinson
Crusoe or the productions of Cooper
and Henty. The boy has a fair under
standing of comparative philology and
mythology. He Is well versed in logic.
ancient history, American history and
has a general insight into u poll
ties and into the groundwork of our
constitution. At the same time he is
of an extremely happy disposition,
trimming over with humor and fun.
His physical condition is splendid. his
cheeks glow with health. Many a girl
would envy his complexion. Being
above FIVE feet four, he towers above
the average boy of his age. His physl-
cal constitution, weight, form ana
hardihood Of organs far surpass that
of the ordinary schoolboy. He looks
like a boy of 16. He is healthy, strong
and sturdy"
It is not of his son. however, that the
doctor breaches. He complains OF our
systems of education. He says there
Is no provision made for the education
Of the genius, and that every pro-
vision should be made for him. One
genius, he thinks. is, worth a thousand
men, and our system merely chokes
him off. He d~enounces practically all
the educators in the country. He may
be right. 1t Is difficult for the man
in the street, however. to believe that
he is right. The BACKBONE of the ma
ton Is the average man, who grubS
along without any too much intelli-
genee, without flashes of g~enius-per-
haps his education along average COM
mercial lines is better. after all. The
doctor does not think so. He speaks
pleasantly of the principal and schoo
superintendent-he seems to love them,
not wisely but too well. Poor old col
lege owls" he calls them; academic
barn-yard fowls. and worn-out, sickly
school bats. = philistine pseu-
dagogues, self-contented school auto
Gratis" The doctor hits from the Shout
der and gives us something to think
about. We should be grateful If he
would place upon record the full hos
tory of the education and development
of his son, who, unquestionably, is the
prodigy of the century.
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WHAT IS AN EDITION?
Ask some of your friends this Ques-
ton. One mar will say 10000 copies,
another 10000, another 1000.
After the reports are all in, go to
your dictionary. That friend and fire.
side companion will tell you this: 1.-THE
number of copies printed at one time or
for one publication" constitute In edi-
ton.
If you print n copy, n only one,
1t is an edition. If you print 100,o 600 at
one time, it is an edition.
What does 1t mean, therefore, when
you read, in an advertisement, that
1.-THE Bold Bad Man." has gone to its
fifth edition, or that ten editions of
"Mulvan.-'s Ears" have been ordered
before publication? 1t means simply
an each case that the publishing house
has printed a number of the book in
question and stopped, then printed an
other quantity and stopped, and so on
until four or five or ten p%rintings have
been had. OF q certain book that sold
to 1000 sopies, it's publishers said:
1--WE have printed -four editions and a
fifth large edition." Probably it's first
four editions were of 5000 each and its
last about 10000. But that is not the
impression that the word edition"