The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1914-02-20
THIS FARMER BOY
NOW SINGS IN LATIN.
Book an Aid to Social and Intel
lectual Life.
BY LOWE SHARON.


don, announce the publication this
month Of Latin Songs: Ancient, Me-
dieval and Modern, with Music" by
Calvin s. Brown, and thereby hangs a
tale.
The announcement by the Putnams
says:
This hoax contains large variety
OF Latin poems and music, providing
something suitable for all tastes and oc-
casions. Among its numbers are ancient
classical lyrics from Catulus and Horace;
medieval church hymns, such as Dies
Irae, Stabat Mater, and Veni, Creator
Spiritus, and the old Christmas carols
Caput ApriDeferro and In Dulci Jubilo.
There are also included such convivial
songs as Gaudeamus Igitur, Lauriger
Horatius. and Meum Est Propositum,
folk-songs of the type of o Sanctissima;
and lullabies like Dormi Jesu. The
Latin songs of Harrow, Eton, Rugby,
and other great English schools are
given.
The book also contains many Latin
tradslations of popular English and
German songs. Among the former are
Rock Of Ages, God Save the King, the
Psalm Of Life, and several nursery and
nonsense rimes. Among the latter
are Tannenbaum, Die Lorelei and Die
Wacht am Rheim.
Mr.. Browns volume should appeal
to large number of scholars and mu-
sicians, and aid the social and .intellec-
tual life of clubs and societies.
This book, which its well-known pub
fishers say should appeal to scholars and
musicians and aid the social and intel
lectual life OF clubs and societies, was
written by man who thirty-ive years
ago was a farmers boy who had never
seen street car or been on railway
train more than once or twice in his
life. He got his love Of nature and
music from clover fields and meadow
larks as he helped lay open the furrows
for the seasons crops, and at other
times trudged across the fields for a
mile and half to private school at
Palestine, Tennessee, that then boasted
of two or three little stores and post
office. 1t is now called Glass.
The school had one teacher and about
forty pupils. There the pupils, who
were beginners, we're instructed in the
English alphabet, and those who fin
ished the course were we'll up in Latin,
Greek and higher mathematics and were
ready to enter the second year, being
able to skip the first, in any college or
university in the United States.
There was another remarkable feature
about this school. 1t was taught by
man who, just after his graduation from
college, was given up by physicians as
hopeless victim OF the great white
plague, consumption. But that man
planned differently. He determined to
live and be useful. In order to ward
off the effects OF the disease he made it
rule never to sit down except at meal
times. He taught from a. m. until
D. M, with an hours intermission at
noon. During all these hours he stood
erect in the schoolroom, and usually
carried a switch from neighboring
beech tree that reached from the tip of
his ear to the floor, and he was just
little less than six feet high. William
r. Moore was his name. He was fa- ;
known as "B'' Moore.
Professor "B" Moore is still alive
and in robust health, having conquered
his ailment and spent his life in the
of youth. Unfortunately,
however, the writer has not had the |
pleasure OF seeing him since one sum- !
mer day, many years ago, when that 4
long beech switch came down across i
his knees because OF his failure to mas |
ter rule in algebra within prescribed /
number OF minutes, and the writer !
his allegiance to another y
school where they didn't believe that I
sparing the rod spoiled the child. +
Calvin S. Brown finished his course
1t Palestine. Ee learned all that Pro-
lessor Moore could teach him. He not
only finished his course there, but he :
finished course at Vanderbilt Uni 1
versity, and it was here that the writer |
nad the pleasure of again being with a
nim, having shared room with him at I
Liberty Hall, a cooperative living place '
hat was conducted BY some Of the stu 4
tents at Vanderbilt. {
Then Mr.. Brown took post graduate =
curse and was, fora time. an instructor