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LOVE'S ISLAND

(From the Japanese of Doku-Ho)

An island in an inland sea;

"Too small for me!" I sadly cried And then espied

A lark that rose into the sky. Whereat I changed my plaintive cry: "If lark there be

AS TO BOYS TALKING LATIN

Your editorial commending " Boys Talking Latin in New York City," I see, has raised a cry of surprise from the Middle West. I read with interest the contribution of A. W. Burr on the subject in your issue of February 19, and put the article down with those mixed feelings one has when he overhears people talking at cross-purposes. One is tempted to cry: "Hold, there! As you were! Now begin again, but this time a little less impetuously."

When all has been explained, I believe, Mr. Burr will find himself in complete agreement with the use made of spoken Latin by the boys whose Latin play The Outlook reported. Where you said, "It was delightful to hear their shrill voices and occasional Yankee intonation as they declaimed," you are quoted as saying, "The boys declaimed with Yankee intonation." The assumption is then made from the misquotation, "I take it that they did not mind. their Latin quantities." I never saw a teacher pay so much attention to the quantities as does the teacher of these boys. The other day the only mistake one of these boys had in a composition exercise was the omission of a long mark over an e. It was the boy who was responsible, in all probability, for the Yankee intonation; for I have been at him this whole year to break up his habit of talking through his nose. But there might be some who would defend the nasal twang as thoroughly American.

I agree with Mr. Burr in his next to the last paragraph, where he says, " Nor is the bright twelve-year-old boy in this day to be learning largely by imitation and memorizing. If he studies Latin, it is time for him to begin the habit of thinking about language, the greatest human instrument of all ages." But when he adds immediately, "That will make it interesting," I answer, "Not to the Mutt-and-Jeff '-reading small boy of twelve." Now, as we employ the direct method in Latin in my school, we do not dispense with much drill and syntax. But to have only drill, analysis, syntax, and composition, and nothing else, is deadly. Nor do we exclude the use of English altogether from the class-room. It is good pedagogics to suit the manner of

of the student. Teaching Latin to a twelveyear-old boy in the same way you would to a freshman class, even though the doses be smaller, meets, and always has met, with results which are poor pay for the time consumed. If Latin is worth studying, it is worth learning well. We learn well a given subject only when it interests us to study it. With the small boy, the interest must be immediate. The later benefit from a knowledge of Latin becomes more and

As to Boys Talking Latin (Continued) more vague to him the more prolonged becomes his grinding progress through the grammar. The initial interest in the study wanes and vanishes before the goal is reached. By oral question and answer in Latin the language becomes a "live," if not a "living," language. Much more intelligent repetition with well-focused attention is made possible than can be had by merely written composition. Misuse of Latin quantities is instantly corrected when this is necessary. Skillful questioning brings out most clearly the change in meaning through change in ending. And the boys, when they assume in turn the various parts in the carefully graded stories they study, get that "experience of some situation to which the meanings" of the words they use "are actually relevant." Going back to when I was a novice in Latin, my observation of the study of the subject in preparation for college extends hardly more than thirty years, but this I can say, these boys in the Latin classes in my school show an interest and accomplishment in the study of the language far and away ahead of what was ever attained in classes taught in the usual way. The boys work at it like those who love their work.

CLEMENT LAWRENCE SMITH.

The Lawrence Smith School,

New York City.

"LITERARY" TALK

Mr. Walter Dyer, whose advocacy of distinguishing insignia for authors appeared in the February "Bookman," told this story the other day:

"She was a sweet young thing with big blue eyes, a perfect throat, and a bewitching smile, and she spoke with an irresistble little lisp. But because she was seated beside a professor of English at the dinner party she made the mistaken decision that her charming chatter about people and life would be less acceptable than a discussion of things literary.

"Do you know," said she, 'I don't read novels any more. I've outgrown them.' "How interesting!' murmured the professor, beaming upon her through his tacles. And what do you read?' "Essays,' she replied, soulfully.

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"Splendid," he returned, with enthusiasm. And may I inquire who are your favorite essayists?"

"She hesitated only a moment. Why, I adore Henry van Dyke,' said she, and all those "Atlantic Monthly" people. And then there's that English chap, you know. What is his name? I never can remember whether it's Arnold Benedict or Benedict Arnold.'

THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF THE WAR

BY B. L. ULLMAN

The pastime of raking through past literature for quotations that in some way relate to the great war has been pursued with the utmost enthusiasm in the newspapers and magazines of the world. Hence it becomes increasingly difficult to know whether one's discoveries in this field have been anticipated. Yet I venture to believe that a fertile soil has been overlooked in the " copy-book" maxims which are all that is left of the mimes of Publilius Syrus, who spent his allotted years on earth in the time of Julius Cæsar. This collection is a veritable vade mecum for the maxim

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For Each Empty Package

A Suggestion to Men

The 32-cent package of Quaker Oats contains 6,221 calories- . the energy measure of food value.

In meat, eggs and fish the average cost of 6,221 calories would be at least $3.50.

So each 32-cent package served in place of meats saves around $3. And the housewife who saves it should have it. Make each empty package worth $3 in some special household fund. Then watch the fund grow.

This is how some necessary foods compare in cost, at this writing, based on their calorie value:

The Shortest History of the War (Continued) ist, for in it one may find maxims suitable for every occasion. It is not surprising, therefore, that one may almost sketch the history of the war by a judicious selection from Publilius's saws. After reading through the many lengthy lucubrations which have drawn so heavily on the world's stock of paper and brains, the reader may find it refreshing to see a history of the war in nine chapters, of one line each, written two thousand years ago:

CHAPTER ONE. THE CAUSE AND STRATEGY OF THE WAR

Diu adparandum est bellum ut vincas celeriter:

Long must be the preparations for war to achieve a quick victory."

Germany's lengthy preparations were complete, therefore war was provoked. The invasion of Belgium was due to the desire to get into France quickly and put her out of the war.

CHAPTER TWO. ENGLAND WILL STAY OUT Seditio civium hostium est occasio; "When citizens quarrel enemies see their chance."

Germany confidently expected that civil war in Ireland would keep England out of the war.

CHAPTER THREE. THE INVASION OF
BELGIUM

Crudelis est, non fortis, qui infantem

necat:

"Cruel, not brave, is he who kills an infant."

Comment is superfluous.

CHAPTER FOUR. AMERICA'S DUTY, 1914-1917

Prospicere in pace oportet quod bellum

invet:

"In time of war prepare for peace." Did we?

CHAPTER FIVE. ALLIED UNITY OF
COMMAND

Ibi semper est victoria ubi concordia est
"Where there is harmony there is always
victory."

The co-ordination of effort which cul- . minated in the elevation of General Foch to the supreme command of the Allied armies was largely due to America's urging, and is one of her greatest contributions to the war.

CHAPTER SIX. THE FATE OF THE CAESARS

Male imperando summum imperium

amittitur:

"Misuse of supreme power leads to its loss."

The imperial czars of Russia and Bulgaria, the kaisers of Germany and Austria, have gone their way.

CHAPTER SEVEN. BELGIUM'S CONSOLATION

Sine dolore est vulnus quod ferendum est cum victoria;

"Painless is the wound whose endurance

is attended by victory."

Imagine the feelings of the Belgians as they re-entered Bruges and Brussels, and of the French as they marched into Metz and Strasbourg!

CHAPTER EIGHT. PEACE TERMS

Bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria: He conquers twice who in the midst of victory conquers himself."

We are not going to destroy Germany, as she would destroy us. Yet it may be

Referring to the profit-sharing plan of the Willys-Overland Company given in your issue of February 9, I welcome any scheme for a division of profits between owners and employees. I believe a division of some sort to be one element of the only possible solution of the labor question.

The plan adopted by Mr. Willys divides the net profits on a fifty-fifty basis between the two interests. I can see no scientific basis for such a division. In some cases it might give the employees too large a share and in some enterprises too small a share.

Assuming what all rational thinkers admit, that capital and labor are together necessary in any enterprise, it is reasonable that both should share in the results of the effort; but the division should be on the lines of the proportional effort of each, measured by the market value of those efforts. In normal times there is a fairly fixed price per hour for each grade of labor of all classes, and there is a commercial rate of interest at which capital can be obtained. These "wages," as they may be called for labor and for capital, vary at different times and in different localities; but for a given enterprise during a given year a mutually satisfactory scale can be fixed upon by the parties in interest. Why, then, should not the profit be distributed pro rata between the interest on the capital for a year and the aggregate pay-roll, each employee and each stockholder getting his proportionate part?

A fifty-fifty division is a concession in the nature of a gift; and, as Mr. Willys says, gifts are not what employees want. A pro rata division, on the other hand, is in the nature of a partnership which is businesslike and will be acceptable. Such a division is, I believe, the next forward step of culture above our present system of hired labor.

Our country is now leading the world

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is to abolish war as a means of settling disputes between nations. Let us show the right way by which to adjust the relation between capital and other interests concerned in industrial efforts.

Not only is partnership in net earnings needed, but partnership in management and regulation by public authority as well, in order completely to solve the problem. The details are many and somewhat complex, but if carefully worked out and a plan adopted it will work.

These principles applied to the railway problem now before this country, with proper amplification and adjustment of parts, will furnish a complete and equitable. solution for this most serious and perplexing problem. J. P. SNOW.

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