

15. 



MOOKS'S HURAX, FEW-YORKER. 



THE 8TTTDY OF LATIN. 



Maasas. BwTons : — I am surprised that anyone 



bbh -hould attempt to defend ttn rtndj 



iif ihc Latin language. In comparison with the 



.. : d language it ia fhi Info- 



r ,,,r, froth [n ita eooitrnotion and adaptability to 



...ii jay, rad i" Its incompleteness 



and paucity of lUJHGWiOD. The languages of 

 BTOpa and this country have not only 

 the Latin in them a* fur as it is Di i 

 they have been enriched by nn intermixture with 



. ■ i • i ■ ■ r i ■ ■ ■ . ■ ■ ;■■:' !. i ■ ■■'■ ■■" Hi. 'Mi mi i -■ 



test and variety of expression, a multitude of 



words, and a flexibility and suitableness to the 



i it places them 



ii 01 1 i | i expect far ahead of the old tongues. If, 



!, .1 ■ ..n it i hj 1,1 do -i re I" i in pii.i ve and exercise the 

 hi children by the study of a language, 

 givi ■ ilu in French, Qonnan.SpeQisboi Italian, and 

 you will gain not only the greater advantage of a 

 comprehensive tOOgUO, With more than all that the 

 Latin grammar could give— hut ideas and morulity 

 more Bailed to our age. And this is a most serious 



conaldi ration. 



Indeed, admitting lor the moment which would 



lir iiI.-umI mm i- 1 ■ 1 1 1 ■ i ( r i ■ 1 1 , lluil tin' Latin tongue is 

 superior as a training for the mind, the use of it 



»lioii!d not Ik encouraged by any really moral man, 

 ■.ili-mv, lining In its disgusting my- 

 thology, iu loiv mural tone, false principles 

 honor imil conduit, iiml perpetual laudation 



liioo.iy i tolence, is to demoralize the Christian 



iln interim- -.landanl of (he I'agan. Seven days of 



-"ili Nil tit i In- iniinl.'ilmliinred, or ■•■it In. 



corrected by on- day's study oT I'h ri>t inn Ii-jiImii^ 

 Then, again, the Latin tongue, for scientific and 

 medical purposes, can be acquired, and to nr 

 Knowledge, ha* been fundamentally acquired in i 

 few month's time at a riper age, when the mind ii 

 not so likely to be vitiated by the insane and tilth; 

 doctrines. Leave, then, the boy, the youth, t< 

 purer iiml more intellectual studies — to thosi 

 -imhr , ,,i Suture, in tin- Science*, which are "Clod 

 given," nnd for w huh the von m; mind has a peeuliai 

 adaptability— and study Latin at 15 or 20 years o 

 ii--" ■ » l- ii tin ■ i,i i ml I (formed and reflective, and no 1 

 I'.iean tilthiness. After all 

 few need such o study. Latin words and phrase; 

 Come in here and there— so do French, Italian 



NORMAL INSTITUTES IN WISCONSIN 



e support of c 

 mini.. 



) l.lnll;,: 



, and a Univ 



Fund, amount,, u-and dollars, 



iit-fourth of the avails of the sole of 

 what are known nn '■ swamp lands," as a fund 

 for normal instruction. The income of this fund 

 is about eighteen thousand dollars. This sum is 

 expended by a Board of Regent*, for the sup- 

 port of Normal Institutes in colleges, academies 

 and high schools. This Board propose to expend 

 the income hereafter, which will soon reach the 

 annual sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, on a 

 more comprehensive and practical scheme, submit- 

 ted by Hon. Heskv BajBKABD, of Connecticut, em- 

 bracing a central normal school, normal classes in 

 ;r institutions of learning, county touchers' 

 s, state, comity and town teachers' asso- 

 and a general normal sel,„i..l u-nnv Dr. 

 Dabnaiih, having accepted the Chancellorship of 

 the State UuiversiU ul Mudi-smi. has, with thecon- 

 of the Regents of the University, accepted 

 agency for the purpose of organizing the 

 system. 



Wision^in is doing a noble work in the cause of 

 education, from which she cannot fail to reap rich 

 returns. She is fortunate in having secured the 

 services of so able and devoted a laborer o 

 BaHKABD in carrying out her wise provisions for 



e.-iim 



i of I 



Won ns I* Tn 

 Geo. P. Marsh, 



lumriiugi.'. >;i>s t 

 by good writers 





r (ierm 



lifficultv. But if t 



.ii, I,. 





can gel 



villi the 



"God. given, "and morally elevating 



little OF no trouble. Not so the dead languages,— 

 they are dead, indeed, and require mental efforts 

 commensurate with their insufficiency and una- 

 daptcducss to our minds. 



My greatest opponents, I grieve to say, have 

 been my clerical friends. While they cannot deny 

 the in hum of tin- moral ih con nre ted with the Study 

 of Latin, they still cling to it with a wonderful 

 fuse i mil ion, which some might shy must be the 

 work of evil spirits. When we reflect, however, 

 we have to admit that minds trained in a school of 

 error, arc loth to believe that they have lost so 

 many years of time. Their pride makes them 

 revolt against a change. They are human, too.— 

 Still, the influences are very disadvantageous and 





England, 



mny of my 



the University of 



l trail cememner, 

 many years ago— I w 

 young friends were members 

 Oxford. They had spent, many of them, 14 and 15 

 years at the classic-, and were then not very bright 

 scholars. To pass an examination they had to be 

 ertmmtd. Strange to say, few of them could write 

 English correctly, or had ever studied its grammar. 

 Few of them know anything of the sciences, and it 

 was a common saying among them, that they would 

 have to begin their education on leaving the Uni- 

 »eBaity| 1 think, since thai classic time, some- 

 iIiiiil- more has been done for youth; but such was 

 the tOuoaUoti then. Rroor, Stow, and other great 

 schools produced the same classically vseducate, 

 hoys— uny 8 destined afterwards to inle our Empire 

 No wonder, as practical men, they were incapabl, 

 of the work of a common elerk. The.r utmos 

 talent was that of wrangling about words and 

 phrases, and he who had the longest 



Wl Itupidly esteemed the si tub 



■ rroi prottj wi N sjqQodcd now-a da 



But, Sirs, lor agricultural peoph 

 l.iiin \\, tv ant such practical knowledge of the 



iwntaM areationi of Sod as will enable us to 



■mike Iiml piTuiu;,) use of it which tends to 



develop the moral as irsl] as the mental capacities in 



a healthy way Then the loro of violence and an- 



I trlth our Latin, 



"ill be changed into a love for Work The sword 

 ' ; ' '^ Im'i.i.ii.i. lb.- wealth nowwaat- 

 ■ ■ I '■■ '"■ reaatd i thousandfold. 



" "'■ ■ ■ ;J 



I LAHODAO»-Tne Hon 



it lecture on the Englisl 

 iiglish words found in ust 



II short of Ifl 

 truordinnry 



bring into use half of that number, he generally 

 contented himself with far fewer. Each individual 

 used in his daily life a repertory of words to some 

 extent peculiar to himself. Few scholars used as 

 many as 10,000 English words; ordinary people not 

 more than 3.000, In all Shakspeure there were not 

 15,000 words; in all Milton, 8,000. 



SIR EDWARD BULWKR LYTTON. 



PLEASURES OF THE MICROSCOPE. 



Fhoji the Earthworm and the Housefly — by 

 James Smiuelson — wo take the following: 



The rich coat of the Leopard, the beautiful and 

 variegated plumage of the bird of Paridise, the 

 sweet note of the Nightingale, and the gracefu 

 form aud movements of the Gazelle, all delight th< 

 ■eosL-s hut lend little, toward t tin.- el 

 intellect. These nth.nl yruliheulioi 

 age, the child and the educated u 





former; but when we come 



superficial observer, we find tl 



by which they perform the 

 re begin to wonder how i 



Uiu-ds 



We 1 



Thowald thought it very unfair 



nave come to years of dUcret t 



garden, and told i ll( ,, ,, 



II.. i, D " 



'0," i .« plied, "that it b 



>ou see. have taken the lih-rir . . . 



w»My t„ grow, and I 



■ ii-- soil 111 







.nd strawberru,' _,. 





MonciTT or Lumino. — Loan 



| would think, might dispose a. t ,, 

 ■>•<■ more a man knows, the more h 

 gnoranee. 



propem 



objects contained therein, a 



that they impart sensations quite as 



aginations when first we beheld the mor 

 of the higher animals, communicate ne 

 fresh capacity to imitate und design; ai 

 for greater importance, they instil into 

 careful habits of observation, uud em 

 form a more correct estimate of our ov 

 capacities, and of (In- boundless power ai 

 Creator. 



to be so wisely 

 cresting appli- 



ural functions, 

 'e should have 

 ?ir remarkable 

 i a new world, 



l.-llslH-ul.ll.- IIS 



childish im- 

 >re beautiful 



VELOCITY. 



Tub velocity of moti 

 employed in moving over a certain space, or by 

 the space moved over in a certain time. The loss 

 the time and the greater the space passed over in 

 that time, the greater is the velocity. Thus the 

 space given, to find the velocity, divide the space 

 by the time. The time and velocity being given, 

 to find the space, multiply the velocity by the 



The uniform velocity of sound compared with 

 the instantaneous motion of light, enables 

 determine the distance of the object from which 

 the sound proceeds ; as that of a cannon fired at a 

 distance, or a thunder cloud, provided we can see 

 the Hash and hear the report. Multiply 1,188 by 

 the number of seconds between the flash and re- 

 port -the product will be the distance in feet. 

 Divide the number of seconds by 4: 5, and the 

 qnotffcBl will be the miles, nearly. 



Sound conveyed by means of water, mercury, or 

 spirit* <.r wine, moves 4.000 feet in a sccoud; con- 

 ;,soo; by silver, 0,800; by brass, 

 11,800; by copper. 12,000; by iron or glass, i,7,r,nii, 

 and hv wood, from i j.uoo to 12,000 feet inn second." 

 According to the experiments of S^rvrrn. the 

 hmesl -ouiid which the ear can appreciate consists 

 :lve and a half indentions in a second, and 

 ost acute, of something more Ihun f'.,n,io. 



Lvrrnx, whos 

 of General Bui-WWl, of Hey- 

 don Hall, Norfolk, and Bluabkth, daughter of 

 IlBNtir W. Ltttos, of Knebworth 1'ark. Here 

 foreshire. Biilwbu early gave signs of poetical 

 aste. In childhood he wrote verses for his moth 

 ml in l.--_>; made his hist essay in print— a little v 

 me entitled •• Weeds and Wild Flowers" bean 

 is thoughts to the- world, ilis Collegiate Com 



oem on Sculpture. The age was Byronic. ho 

 rer, and no opening offered to the young poet. 

 Though versification was his passion— though he 

 gly and wrote it easily, while 

 gulor difficulty and exertion he could 

 pen prose, his practical mind taught him that 

 proper force must be applied in the proper 

 he desired success, and he turned his 

 prose composition. Perseverance did for him just 

 what it will for others— he toiled faithfully, and he 

 conquered. Speaking of his first attempts lie says:— 

 "I wrote with incredible difficulty and labor. To u 

 critical study of the rules of fiction, I owo every 

 success in literature wbich I have attained ; and in 

 the mere art of composition, if I have now attained 

 to even too rapid facility in expressing my thoughts, 

 it has been purchased byamoaj hibonmi.-, sluwuess 

 in the commencement, ami a resolute refusal to 

 write a second sentence until I had expressed my 



Fictioi 



i the best i 



r I could iu the firs 



I . : I 



.ml t ..lum 



after volume fell with. amazing rapidity ft- 

 pen. Soon we find him (editing a Loudon monthly, 

 and in his new sphere he proved that Bitlweh, the 

 Essayist, could make himself us noted for grace, 

 lofty thought, and wide erudition, as Hie.wer, the 

 Novelist, was known for bis command of passion 

 and satire. Wlul.- engaged in tins lalfer vocation, 

 he was also ably performing parliamentary duties. 

 When he entered the House, everything seemed to 







s of attire almost 



styloflorid, while Ilia faatid 

 rcrote foppery againathiant 



ing " he will never be Speaker." The same untir- 

 ing energy which had marked his previous life was 

 brought into play, all the obstacles in his path 

 were surmounted, and on a v.tal question -th- bill 

 for establishing a Dramatic Copyright Law-he 

 deeded the House Parliamentary speeches, pol.t- 

 >•-" p.un |iti let-., e-says leanu-d and critical, editorial 

 duties, etc., now divided his time. Thus, diversi- 

 fied with trav, 1. he passed his time until ls';7. when 

 he gave further proof of his industry and versa- 

 tility in the production of a play. His first attempt 

 was a failure, hut succeeding trials crowned his 

 eflurta, and some or the most popular pieces now 

 placed upon the stage arc the children of his brain. 

 History succeeded the drama, aud the "Rise and 

 Full of Athens'- won for him golden opinions as 

 a historian and philosopher. 

 One of his reviewers writes:— " Novelist, drama- 

 poet, historian, orator, politician, an 

 all these positions bus Bijlwe 

 nth credit to himself. In each, except the 

 2 started out with a failure — worked ahead 

 t discouraging circumstances, and impedi 

 both natural and circumstantial, ultimately 

 reaching the goal he had set for himaulf." 



To the beginner there is a wholesome lesson 

 the development of Bcxwer Lytton's genius. 

 teaches that not what one would most be pleased 

 with should always receive the individual prefer- 

 ence— that judgment should control choice — thai 

 lot indolent aspirings, is the chief element 

 ?ss. One feature, not the least to the credii 

 'ubjeet, is the fact that, though ?„„■„ to inde 

 pendencc and the prospect of a fortune, he pu 

 aside the advantages of wealth and station ready a 1 

 hand, and found his greatest gratification ir 

 lest toil — the very thing which most iu blf 

 outd have shunned as diligently as h< 



A CITY BOY IK THE C0UNTBY. 



Eds. Ri 

 bai 1st. ye< I I'.'' I 

 opinion in regard 

 paper, that 1 find inrmtr 

 hopes I may be permitted toapaak'lhn 



" l 7"- \ ""' ? frt "" 



* ork city ; fourteen years old, and a pt, UT fa Tortt . 

 age, 



Although i maoi llVolX0 r,.. 

 stronj i dasiw to express tuj 

 *- »»m* lot, ittii :. n , 



Vw 



hie specimen ol a fast young Ml, . 



So they all -;,v ! ,!,„,', ,h,,ik. th, , 



very bad one to, the Limee I llwnjl t,v« fZZ 



one well, ami .-m i> „ljke, win,,-,,., ,)„-, Ml , 



(only let them heat in mind to keep me cool,) 

 though I don't suppose I would quite en,,, ,,,, ( ', h 

 your standard of the right kiud of n boy, u» I n 

 to the theatre, and smoke cigars, and ull that sort 

 of thing, pretty freely. 



Father haj always had so little leisure thai he 

 never found time to see me much, and never tried 

 to keep mo al any sort of business. (Bj the waft 



if he had tried, he would have been hrought t,. th," 



stern necessity of either giving op bis job or leav- 

 ing i mi,, h hie mercantile busineaa.) I have been 

 at school some, bul do aol like so n 



Early last spring, heii.g discontented nnd de- 

 siring a change, I at last took it into my he ,.l tb„t 

 it would be a very fine thing to live in the country 

 and work on a farm, just about one aummi r M 

 father had a cousin Iu ing in Potato Bollcnr, noma- 

 where iu the western part of the State I had 

 Often heard him speak of her as the most kind- 

 hearted, old-fashioned old lady he 

 "This," I thought, "is the place for ,„.-," >„, uller 

 urging, my father consented that I should go, 



I should, i 

 ner. I gladly assented to this 



1'otaio Hollow, uly amothai 



on condition 

 through the 

 In a week I i 

 ed with Auni 



I brought a letter from father to Uncle JiniMAl 

 Hiuiwn, her husband. I afterwards found tl irafl i 

 -tnct injunction to Uncle Jrd. to keop B dhftT] 

 lookout forme, try to steady me down. ,,„<! a h..v. 

 all things, to keep me busy. And they have dont 

 vengeance. A few days ago, I asked per 

 to go, with several boys of my age, to a 



, a fei 



a of the world.- 





& I) C tt C v i c \vt v . 



liavotwo distinct and absorbingly ii 



(and too frequently present) custom 

 romance Into two or more volumes, 

 already " made her mark" in the v 



-Theglfl, 



Ths Forkatiox OV A 



imposed of fresh water. Its elements are modi- 



lass hy its base. The fracture and dis- 



iption is caused by wave action, bv gravitation 



id t- nip. ratnre The iceberg is a liberated gla- 



■ 



s cobalt blue, and 



bapa depends 





1 In color, 

 like frosted silver. Its base 

 edges flash and sparkle. Its 

 nfluence 



find all landscape forms and featnrcsupon it. Min- 

 gled with these pleasing associations are higher 

 'igaof grandeur. I have measured them nnd 

 found them to be 300 feet, and the entire height 

 * such is, therefore, 2,100 feet. Millions or 

 nro embraced in it, and it moves sometimes 

 ' milea an hour. There iaaomi 

 ^'"g in iu march through the ice-fields.— 



oti-e,' h,,,I II,,.' I 



ban. By J, B, 



eluded the dulle: 



li-:il,iht> will (-ivc i! fnvc 

 he lively stylo la which I 

 It to the general read.-i 

 figures and of letters. Fu 





Urn 



ished to hear n 



i, eh , 



Sol. I by 1 



inlmltablo I'm lc. 

 tings among oat 

 ne and Judge of 



'""''■ '"■.Tmiii-.-IoI.p - iu.,1, B, t,v, ,.„.,, AlS] 



»mi. imiii-ir ,| ■■ Mi,r, ,1-. ■■ Wlii-ikr ■' ■■ I II,, ■■ ,-i, 

 ^' Ihi-trntiou, Heslou ; i;,,i,|,| , v Lllieoln. ' 



Tms Is another of "The AJnaveU Stories,' 

 able series of books for l lie young, and an 

 upon the preeedlnj 







t I'tcllMlTll 



l; ' >ton : Sfit-par.J, I 



of Mrs. Leslie's Juvenile Serie*, a 

 [cellcnl tendency, ii oompikej •* 



Wiil.oui. Hew York : K.iberl Curler iiu.l |-.r..l|„ r. 



Moae than thirty years ago the aerlaa Of loles ion 

 prisi-d In this volume made tie ir upjuarance ia Englan 

 underthctilte.iril„-^,i,,i^^i.„;/.'„^.<^-. Tlieywer 

 exceedingly well received, the copies nmnlng up t 



eounl.-rr,, linir llie effects of i 

 dangerous Institutions, they 1 

 very' neat style. The object o 



lume contains, not pne can be thi 

 i, in: in. The work numbers upwar 



anAniAif Hats' EBTBXxauotXir 

 Phillips, Sampson & Oov—IUS 



., r,',: 1 



*";,! 



'':: 



■eaders have an illtutralU 

 Caliph Stork,'' given ir 





ll„. j,„ 



Itylfl In 



atrial 





■ 

 Eulerlainmente" cover 









™ 



ra pronuelj Illustrated. 





'"•" 







Tar. Bftxin ov B 



■ ■: ■ 



■u ii. All «ho have read 

 o .uflldcnl to ealahllah lha 

 a genuine poet— uiii deelre 



talked to me a long time, and ended v, ilh b . ..... 



ing story of a boy who went to a Ira ' agajjul 



his father's wishes, aud got " blowed up." One 

 thing I wish— that is, that he could see mo for 

 about a week after 1 gel home, ami that won't be 

 fur some time yet, father writes. Two or ffireo 

 weeks ago I borrowed a pile of HrnAus from my 

 friend Geoiiqb Suite, the son of om town phyai- 

 cinn. Uncle Jen. doesn't take any paper. Qo 

 says that farmers, as have to work I'm a living, 

 don't have no money to pay for such things, nor no 

 time to read none in 'em if they had 'cm Hni. I 

 like to read your paper, and I rather think if 1 

 lived in the country all the time, I think „ |6U | 

 part of my pleasure would consist in reading, and 

 doing things so nice as to astonish tho country 

 folks. I see that those who read the most and 

 know the most, have the nicest houses, aud horses, 

 and fruit, and clothes, while tln.se who have every 

 thing tumbling to pieces are ignorant, and seem to 

 liku it. If you print this I will write to you again, 

 and then, perhaps, I shall be so proud of the mut- 

 ter that I may think it best to stay in the country 

 and be .somebody. Soloiv. 



Potato Hollow, Woyno Co., N. Y., ISM. 



WHAT IS A LIBRARY! 



"While recently engaged in arranging u large 

 library," remarked Alexander Hamilton, " a friend 

 came in to lighten our labors by pleasant conver- 

 sation." 



What is the most common idea of a library r' 

 said be. 



A workshop, perhaps, iu which are all manner 

 of tools." 

 " What is your idea?" 



"A dictionary, in which wc can turn to any 

 ven subject, and Iiml the information we desire." 



"Very fair, both tb.e*e ,1, linit 9> but I think 1 



know of one much better. When a lad about llx- 

 teen years of age, !i\ ing us u neighbor of Dr. .Ma- 

 son, nnd also a member of Ins congregation, I >\.n 

 engaged iu helping him to move and arrange Ins 



\ id, mill,- library . ' Hamilton, ' said In , ' '" !l 



n greot name, a very great name, bul II is - ,l11 



more honorable to bear the i I ' 



Hamilton, do vou know tvhal a librarj \»f ' -No, 



sir.' 'Well, sir, it is an aiivy. Do yo tl 



books? Theyaremywoi-Dians! 1 



rion. I cull then, down, and mai> '->>m fi.jht J\,r 



mt, my boy. Now you know ivhol a library is, 



which is more than ! ■' ■''■ ''"■ Don't you 



forget it.' " 



Shi i t - Tii.-d.jor of your* 



closed against bad language andevile. 



.t he 

 iel. Tho 



door of your .//■ ■ muit be ahut against had books, 



md h.w pipers, oi your itudiai will 

 be neglected, and you will grow op oaelaaa and 



ignorant. You will also close them Detinue 



ogoinst the 6ne thinga exposed for sale in the shop 

 windows, or you will ucver learn to eavc your 

 money, or have any left l<. give away. The door of 

 your lips will need cepacia] care, for tl 

 unruly member, which makes great use of the bad 

 company let in at the door! 'if the - 



iiner door of j our /• art must be well shut 



against temptation, for Conscience, the d 'keeper, 



grows very indiflerenl ,i 



drops asleep at his post. 



dt Of Unit. — Under this beading, in the 

 EnucATioHAL Depibtme.st, our youofl I 

 hove been Interested inthodiacusi )f the qoe.s- 



wlll find a very good article, written by a 

 gentleman at Washington. 



