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Of course it is only to be expected that a majority of them will drift into positions where their efforts at English composition will rarely be called for. On the other hand, I hope that the taste for good reading will stay by them and in future years they will go to libraries and call for some of the standard fiction, travel, biography, and poetry instead of wandering in, seeing a pretty book cover and some illustrations of people in up-to-date dress, and calling for books that are nothing but the typi cal light fiction which is read in an hour and melts from the mind like the snow in the April sunshine. To cultivate this taste, or at least to let the pupils know that something does exist beside this light stuff, I have a reading list of books by the so-called "Standard Authors," also some of the better class of modern fiction, biography, travel, etc. Like the proverbial horse which won't drink are a great many of these children, and quite as helpless as the horse's master am I. For instance, I read portions of "David Copperfield" to the classAunt Betsy and the Donkeys, David at the Peggottys, and other scenes which delighted me in my early teens. They listen attentively and enjoy the passages, but when they pursue the suggestion that they read the whole book outside they find that it has so many pages and such fine print that they are discouraged. One boy preferred to lose 10 points from his mark for the month's work rather than to read "any of those dry old things" and wanted to know why I didn't let them read books with some "pep." (Pep with its concomitant "jazz" is hardly found in Dickens!) All pupils are not like this. Out of 50 there might be found a saving remnant of 5 who read and really like good books, 10 more who read them and are indifferent or hostile, and 35 who infinitely prefer to read nothing at all or a little popular fiction. I have had to compromise. I ask one biography, one book of travel, and one standard novel, however painful the dose may be, among the eight books required during a school year of ten months. That leaves a leeway of five books which may be taken from a list carefully compiled in council with an experienced librarian. This has such names as "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," "David Harum," Bret Harte, Sherlock Holmes, any historical novel that has a sufficient setting of adventure and romance to be a good story, from "Boy Captive in Deerfield" to "The Crisis." Even with this latitude, in came a little freshman boy of Polish descent 1922 with a note-book containing the names of his own personal book list. All were apparently of the class of cheap fiction of five to twenty years ago, except "Two Years Before the Mast," which I grasped at as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Many a time and oft ("far, far too oft") a child brings in some pretty little book grabbed hastily from the public library and wants credit for it. "No," say I; "read that for fun, if you will, but for school credit you must read something worth while." It seems a pity that a boy who loves adventure stories should not have Oliver Twist's doings with Fagin, Jean Valjean's miraculous escapes, and the host of delightful people of fiction in an attractive form. The chief objection in the mind of the average child is the fine print and the huge number of pages. The remedy is that some publisher take the better-liked works of the standard writers, cut them down a third at least, leaving the plot and necessary description of characters, but omitting the moralizing and philosophizing, and issue them in good-sized print. I believe that there would be a growing demand for them. 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We publish The Writer's Library, 13 volumes; descriptive 150-Page illustrated catalogue free. Please Address The Home Correspondence School ESTABLISHED 1897 INCORPORATED 1904 "Half a loaf is better than no bread," The Pratt Teachers Agency But I know that some people will object to this cutting down. Very well. So do I. If people will read the originals, that is a far better thing to do. this plan of cut editions in good print and attractive bindings is to win the ninety-seven per cent who are not now reading them. Young people, both American and foreign-born, are drifting 70 Fifth Avenue, New York Recommends teachers to colleges, public and private schools. Advises parents about schools. Wm. O. Pratt, Mgr. SCHOLARSHIPS available, partial, endowed, for promising students, girls above 12, in a high-grade boarding school; college preparatory. College town. Send school record and references. Talent preferred. Box 8,205, Outlook. GUNSTON HALL In the National Capital away from the old books and the old A Girls' School With an Atmosphere of This plea seems not half so strongly put as it should be, but if some farseeing editor would follow this suggestion he would win the approbation of teachers of English, of librarians, and of the young people themselves, who could make new and delightful companions among the people of fiction. Why should not David Copperfield or D'Artagnan seem as real as Richard the Lion-Hearted? Of course, all this will take time, but it seems as if a good hustling editor and publisher could start these books coming from the press within a few months. An additional argument to strengthen the plea is that the very few novels that have been shortened and put into use in high schools are among the best-liked books in the course; for instance, "A Tale of Two Cities," or "Quentin Durward," or "Lorna Doone." Here you have the problem and the solution. Won't some editor please start in at once? LUCY ESTELLE TRIPP. Easthampton, Massachusetts. [One, and perhaps the best, solution to this teacher's problem was given in The Outlook for August 16. Mr. Hubert Quiet Refinement and Culture Washington offers many unusual advantages in Art Exhibits, Concerts, Social and Governmental Activities. Gunston Hall stands for Character Building as well as Scholastic Attainment. General Academic, College Preparatory, PostGraduate and Elective Courses. All branches of Athletics. For catalog address Mrs. BEVERLEY R. MASON 1938 Florida Ave., Washington, D. C. 45 miles from New York on the N. Y., N. H. and H. Railroad The McCarter School For little children from four to eight years of age. Idea! UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY BROADWAY AT 120TH STREET NEW YORK CITY The charter requires that "Equal privileges of admission and instruction, with all the advantages of the Institution, shall be allowed to Students of every denomination of Christians." Eighty-seventh year begins September 27th, 1922. 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His character study of Governor Nathan L. Miller of New York, published in this issue of The Outlook, is something which no citizen interested in our Government should fail to read. Mr. Davenport was educated at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and at Columbia. He is now Professor of Law and Politics at Hamilton and is holding office as New York State Senator for the third term. C AROLINE ELIZABETH MACGILL is a name which may perhaps be unfamiliar to our readers. Miss MacGill makes her first appearance in The Outlook in this issue, although she has contributed to the "North American Re view," "Scribner's Magazine," and the "Independent," and has written monographs for various historical and economic series. After gaining her A.B. degree at Cornell in 1904 she did graduate study at the President White School of History and Political Science and at the University of Wisconsin, and later became instructor in economics at Rockford College and the University of Wis consin. For eight years she served as a research worker, editor, and collaborator on the staff of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Since 1915 she has been engaged in literary and social work. EVERAL weeks ago Mr. Roger C. Hoyt, S Eastern advertising Manager of The Outlook, gave a talk on the function of advertising over the radiophone at the Westinghouse broadcasting station at Newark. Despite the proverbial hostility which is supposed to exist between editors and their business office, we have urged him to put his remarks on paper for the benefit of those who did not hear him speak. Mr. Hoyt joined the advertising staff of The Outlook in 1906 after graduating from Williams College. MRS. HARDING T HE OUTLOOK joins in the heartfelt expressions of hope and sympathy which are pouring into the White House from all parts of the country elicited by the gallant struggle of the Presidential family against the ravages of disease and the threats of death. At this writing the condition of Mrs. Harding, while still serious, is more encouraging. That this great anxiety should be thrust upon the President at a time when he is confronted with some of the most serious political perplexities and problems that any President has ever faced is pathetic, and the pathos is increased by the fact that he has been sustained and strengthened during his public career by a very fine family life. The family is still the ideal unit of American life, and the country is proud, sometimes consciously, sometimes subconsciously, of the fact that the White House is full of associations of dignity and happiness in the relations of husbands and wives-George and Martha Washington, John and Abigail Adams, Grover and Frances Cleveland, William and Ida McKinley, Theodore and Edith Roosevelt. Warren and Florence Harding have continued this fine tradition in a way that has commanded the re spect and admiration of their country men and countrywomen.. Free State at the meeting of the Dail Eireann which convened in Dublin on September 8. This is the first representative body brought together in =Southern Ireland since the London Treaty was indorsed by a great majority of the voters. The minority members elected that is, those who insist upon fighting to the bitter end for a completely independent Irish Republic-refused to take their seats in this assembly with the exception of one anti-treaty member, Lawrence Ginnell, who appeared for the sole purpose of making a disturbance, but refused to qualify as a member and was ruled out of the body. The shadow of the deaths of Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith cast a re gretful but not a hopeless tone over the assembly. The new head of the Provisional Free State Government is William T. Cosgrave, who has been in charge of SEPTEMBER 20, 1922 the civil side of affairs since Collins was killed. The only opposition to the election of Mr. Cosgrave and of the men named as his associates in the new Provisional Cabinet was the vote cast against him by a few labor members. The other most notable figure in the new Cabinet is Richard Mulcahy, who is to be Minister of Defense. 'Thus he is a successor to Michael Collins, while Cosgrave may be regarded as a successor to Grif International WILLIAM T. COSGRAVE AT THE FUNERAL OF HIS LATE CHIEF, MICHAEL COLLINS fith in that he is really the head of civil affairs, while Collins, whom he nominally succeeds, was really the head of military affairs. In accepting his election Mr. Cosgrave declared that it was his intention to push forward the London Treaty which has been sanctioned by the Dail and the electorate, to help in enacting a constitution for Southern Ireland, and also "to assert the authority and supremacy of Parliament, to support and assist the national army in asserting the people's rights, to ask Parliament, if necessary, for such powers as are deemed essential for restoring order and suppressing crime, to expedite as far as lies in the power of the Government a return to normal conditions, and, having established the country on a Free State constitutional basis, to speed the work of reconstruction and reparation." There is still a good deal to be done to put the Free State into complete operation. The most important thing is an agreement with the British Government on a form of constitution which will carry out the substantial provisions of the London Treaty. The armed opposition still existing in Southern Ireland seems to be decreasing and to be largely the work of comparatively small bands of irregulars. THE TRIUMPH OF THE TURKS T HE victory of Kemal Pasha over the Greeks is one of the most complete and sweeping military successes of modern times. The Greek army was more than defeated, it was crushed and dispersed. The Turks under Kemal followed up their successes rapidly. Smyrna, the military and naval base of the Greek forces, was evacuated by the Greeks in disorder and the Kemalist troops entered the city on September 9. Scores of thousands of refugees, mainly Greeks and Armenians, had fled to Smyrna for refuge, fearing slaughter by the Turks. Just how far Kemal Pasha has been able to keep his troops under discipline is not positively known, but he at least issued the proper formal orders to refrain from slaughter of the Greeks. The reaction of this depressing defeat of Greece by her ancient enemy was instantly felt in Athens. The Ministry under which this disgrace was possible resigned. A new Ministry was formed under the leadership of Triantafillakos. The new Minister announced that his policy would be to defend the Greek interest at the peace conference, but the constitution of the new Cabinet indicates that the Government still represents the old régime and the policy of King Constantine. Naturally, the alarmed and excited Greeks are turning to Venizelos as a possible leader, and it is not at all impossible that the popular demand and perhaps a plebiscite of the voters will recall the statesman to undo the work of those who drove him from Greece. Venizelos is now in Paris, and is quoted as saying: I have seen America and have been amazed to observe how a free people |