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Professor Beard writes in the light of the most recent experience; he always manages to give definiteness and point to general statements by providing concrete illustrations which are dull or weighted with detail. The chapter on the raising and spending of the city's money goes to show that he has a peculiar gift of making a complicated subject intelligible to the uninitiated, and even entertaining without any sacrifice of accuracy. Photographs and diagrams have been happily chosen; and the brief bibliography is just what best accords with the purpose of the book. A popular presentation, without foot-notes or technical language, it will not only find its way into many college classrooms, but will bear a not unimportant part in informing and stimulating men who had their schooling long ago."

BARBARISMS

Barbarous attacks upon the English language are an old story to educators. Recently a professor of one of our oldest universities declared that these definitions had been given by undergraduates:

An abnostic is one who believes just what he thinks.
An infidel is one who has a religion of his own.
Pride is the habit of modesty and self-control.
A man is piagmatic when he is lazy-like.

Answers revealing as firm a grasp on the language were recently made by children in a metropolitan school and printed in a recent issue of the New York "Evening Post." The question, "What is the difference between a butterfly and a fly?" was answered thus:

A butterfly sits on flowers, and a fly sits on your bread.
A butterfly has nice ways, but a fly, now, is a bad thing.
A butterfly you leave fly, but a fly you swat.
A fly buzzes when it flies, but a butterfly just flies.

A butterfly flies in the sun, but a fly stays in the house to fly. Flies I seen, yes; but we don't have no butterflies around our block.

The question, "What is mama?" was answered thus:

She's what you chop wood for.

She's what puts clothes and shoes on you.

She keeps care of you.

She's who's good to you.
She's your creator.

She's what dead on to me.

FROM "THE BAYBERRY DIP."

An atmosphere of old-school culture is expressed in the following contribution to a quaint publication, called "The Bayberry Dip," issued by the pupils of a Massachusetts boarding school:

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"The coziest time in the whole day, and to some of us the very pleasantest, is afternoon tea. sons are entirely forgotten and we gather around the tea table as one large family. On warm afternoons last June, our tea-table was a large stone near chapel, but now we sit before a blazing open fire in our living-room. As soon as each one has been served, Miss reads to us; and we have followed with intense interest the varying emotions and experiences of Jane Austen's characters, as she has depicted them in Pride and Prejudice' and 'Sense and Sensibility'; the thrilling adventures of Lorna, in 'Lorna Doone'; and now Colonel Newcombe and Clive are our daily companions. is our time for mending, and doing all sorts of fancy work. Last year some of the girls made all their Easter gifts at tea time, and we had great fun watching the various handkerchiefs and workbags under construction, and wondering which would be ours at Easter. It is always a disappointed 'Oh, dear!' that greets the bell which marks the end of tea time."

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