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An Appreciation. 
Tue beautiful version of the parable of 
the Good Samaritan from the pen of our 
friend, Joseph A. ‘Torrey, is a good 
illustration not only-of the literary skill of 
the author, but of the poetic and har- 
monious language of our English Bible 
and the facility with which it often lends 
itself to the purposes ot poetic para- 
phrase. 
The translation of 1611, often as it 
has been revised in the interest of mod- 
ern Biblical and linguistic scholarship, 
is still unrivalled in its pure poetic and 
melodious English. It may have its in- 
felicities, its archaisms, its occasional in- 
accuracies of translation; but for vigor, 
beauty, general fidelity to the original, a 
style at once faithful and free, it may be 
said to be unapproached. It was made 
in an age of great scholars, and when 
the language was perhaps in its most per- 
fect stage of development. It was the 
age which inherited the genius of Ben 
Jonson, of Shakespeare, of Bacon, of 
Milton, of Sir Philip Sidney. The 
Authorized Version, so-called, has con- 
tributed more, perhaps, than any other 
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Attorney and Counsellor-at-Law 
single source to the richness, strength 
and flexibility of our tongue. It has 
given a stateliness and grace to the pro- 
ductions of historians, essayists, orators 
and poets. It has served to fix a_stand- 
ard of speech for the whole English- 
speaking race. Whatever lesser changes 
may in time be made, it is safe to say 
that no other version will ever wholly 
supplant it. It will remain the high 
water mark of English prose. 
Every such faithful and graceful ren- 
dering of our common English Bible is 
to be gratefully welcomed as proof of the 
indebtedness of our language to the 
labors of King James’ translators. It is 
remarkable that the paraphrase retains so 
largely the very words and phrases and 
construction of the original, ‘‘ done into 
verse;’’ it is further remarkable that the 
poetical version is comprised in fewer 
words than the prose, a reversal of the 
usual order, requiring but 184 words 
while that of the gospel contains 200; or 
omitting the last line which is not ex- 
pressed though strongly implied in the 
story as told by the evangelist, the differ- 
ence is still more remarkable, 178 to 
200. 
As compared with some famous para- 
phrases, as Addison’s and _ Bishop 
Lowth’s, this of our own poet is both 
more concise and a more exact repro- 
duction of the language and thought of 
the original. 
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‘Bass Rocks, Gloucester’s leading 
summer colony, may have a mounted 
police patrol again next season. One 
of the citizens has agreed to furnish two 
horses if the city will furnish the men, 
and it is quite likely that the summer resi- 
dents will provide the feed for the ani- 
mals.’’ 
It appears to us that the institution of 
a system of mounted police service all 
along the North Shore would be a step 
in the right direction. It might be done 
by the various towns, or by such a 
system as was in vogue at Bass Rocks 
the last summer. ‘This was started. as 
an experiment, and was so much of a 
success that it will probably be in opera- 
tion again next year. 
Manchester needs more police pro- 
tection, anyway. Something under 
Willmonton’s Agency 
$6000 was appropriated at the last March 
meeting under the head of police, and it 
is probable a sum much larger will be 
asked for at the next town meeting. A 
town with overthirteen millions valua‘ion, 
with property so widely spread out, 
should be amply protected. 
One of the ways to give better service, 
perhaps, would be, as suggested above, 
—mounted patrol. At present only one 
officer is on duty during the day, besides 
the chief. This officer is stationed as 
a rule in the center of the town. The 
territory in the eastern section of the 
town, — Summer street, Manchester 
Cove, as far as Coolidge’s Point,—and 
in the West Manchester section, 1s cov- 
ered by police patrol only at night. If 
the summer residents are sufficiently in- 
terested perhaps some such arrangement 
as in vogue at Bass Rocks could be in- 
stituted in Manchester before another sea- 
son. 
And what is true of Manchester is 
equally true of Magnolia; where, per- 
haps, one mounted officer would be suf- 
ficient; and of Beverly Farms and Pride’s 
Crossing, where two such officers would 
cover the ground. 
Civil Service Examinations. 
Warren P. Dudley, secretary of the 
Mass. Civil Service Commission, an- 
nounces that competitive examinations of 
applicants for positions in the classified 
service will be held in Boston, for the 
service of the Commonwealth, as fol- 
lows:— 
Oct. 25, 1909.—Inspectors of steam 
boilers, class 13. 
Ata 7, 1910.—Civil engineers, class 
Feb. 15.—Metropolitan Park police- 
men, class 16. 
March 21.—Foremen of laborers, in- 
spectors of work, Class 22. 
March 22.—Sub-foremen of laborers, 
class 23. 
March 28.—Prison watchmen, class 
Only citizens of the United States who 
have been residents of Massachusetts for 
the past year have a right to apply. 
Blank applications for the Common- 
wealth service can be obtained by apply- 
ing to the Civil Service commission, 
State House, Boston, and, when filled 
out, should be filed in the office of the 
commission. 
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