heir of all old civilizations, founder of that new one which, if all the prophecies of the human heart are not lies, is to be the noblest, as it is the last; isolated in space from the races that are governed by dynasties whose divine right grows out of human wrong, yet knit into the most absolute solidarity with mankind of all times and places by the one great thought he inherits as his national birthright; free to form and express his opinions on almost every subject, and assured that he will soon acquire the last franchise which men withhold from that of stating the laws of his spiritual being and the beliefs he accepts without hindrance except from clearer views of truth, he seems to want nothing for a large, wholesome, noble, beneficent life. In fact, the chief danger is that he will think the whole planet is made for him, and forget that there are some possibilities left in the debris of the old-world civilization which deserve a certain respectful consideration at his hands. HOLMES: The Professor at the Breakfast Table.

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4. a. One of the wisest of modern readers has said that the most important characteristic of the real criticthe man who penetrates the secret of a work of art is the ability to admire greatly; and there is but a short step between admiration and love.-H. W. MABIE.

b. But all experience contradicts these notions. To attain success and length of service in any of the learned professions, including that of teaching, a vigorous body is wellnigh essential. A busy lawyer, editor, minister, physician, or teacher, has need of greater physical endurance than a farmer, trader, manufacturer, or mechanic. All professional biography teaches that to win lasting distinction in sedentary, in-door occupations, which task the brain and the nervous system, extraordinary toughness of body must accompany extraordinary mental powers. PRESIDENT C. W. ELIOT.

c. The fashion of the day prescribes for sons of the merely well-to-do as much spending-money as in the days of their fathers' boyhood would have sufficed for a creditable professional income, and for sons of the rich allowances which, fifty years ago, would have enabled a prudent man to start in the banking business. This fashion is based on the theory that boys, on being sent away to school, should carry with them the means of reflecting the comfort, and even luxury, of the homes from which they have come. Thus they are launched early on waters abounding in insidious currents and hidden reefs, and allowed to steer their own course with the compass of conscience, the needle being subject to the disturbance of a large amount of current metal. - The Century Magazine.

d. The day when an engineer could succeed by the force of simple judgment or "horse sense," and a method of "cutting and trying," is quite past, because competition in these lines has reached a point at which no one can afford to make mistakes. A machine must be correctly designed on paper before any attempt is made to build it, as otherwise the cost involved in reconstruction would be fatal to commercial success. That is the reason that, to-day, in our largest and best managed establishments, a preference is given to the graduates of technical schools in the selection of young men who are expected to learn the business and to become in future the heads of departinents and general managers.- PRESIDENT HENRY MORTON, in Success.

e. The wheel turns fastest in the University prisonhouse when pale boys and gaunt young men come to me with confidences of their lifelong hope to come to fair Harvard, of mothers' sacrifices and fathers' toil, of the parson's chiding against the influence of the non-sectarian college, and the schoolmaster's prophecy that Cam

bridge will be all proud looks and cold hearts, and finally of their own determination to work their way through, no matter what the cost in comfort and energy. It is the same soul-stirring story, whether it speaks from the butternut-colored coat from Georgia, the coarse gray homespun from Cape Breton, or the shiny, long-tailed black frock from Nebraska. Beseeching, honest, or searching eyes look straight into the heart, and the heart would not be good for much if it did not grow warmer under their scrutiny. Generally all except the least useful and adaptable of such men find ways of earning much of that which is needed to keep them decently clad and safely fed during their years of study; but it is anxious work starting them on self-support, and helping them to drive away homesickness.

There is a feeling of gritting sand and the lack of oil in the wheel when purse-proud, over-dressed, loud-voiced, tired-eyed youths drift to me in their attempts to escape parts of their college duties. They have come from shoddy homes to mix shoddy with the honest stuff of Harvard life. It would be better for them, for us, and for all their associates, if they never set foot on scholastic ground. Still they serve as a foil to the noble-hearted men of wealth who are the glory of a college, who are strong in their willingness to aid others, pure in heart, active in body, loyal to the ideals of the University. BOLLES: At the North of Bearcamp Water.

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EXERCISE 58. (Written.) Rewrite the following sentences from the point of view of structure, changing the periodic structure to the loose when the latter seems the more appropriate type, and remedying the awkwardness

of sentences which unsuccessfully mix the two types.

1. Three summers ago, to rejoin my family in northern Michigan, I left the city. On a little peninsula which juts out into Lake Michigan, a group of houses, dignified by the name of Edgewood, stands. Undistracted by the bustle of hotel life, a few sensible people live here. To get away from town for a few days and lounge in the pine woods about Edgewood, to me is always very pleasant.

2. When I came into the house this morning, I considered it a good omen when I saw that the Grand Penal Bill had been returned to us.

3. Afterwards we found out that the bird was an eagle when it fell from where we shot it.

4. When I first took my seat in this House of Parliament, I was so impressed with a sense of responsibility that I thoroughly studied the American question, as I was unwilling to change my mind with the arrival of each mail from America.

5. We extemporized a tripod, as the house stood on a slope, and as there was no post or fence in front to set the camera on. Since a great cloud now overspread the sky, and shut out all direct light, a new trouble arose. The group had been lessened by the baby's going to sleep by the time the cloud had passed.

EXERCISE 59. (Written.) Revise the sentences of your themes with reference to looseness and periodicity. Where suspense is needed, or qualifying thoughts should precede the thought qualified, change loose sentences in

whole or in part to periodic. When a sentence is needlessly formal and stiff, change it in whole or in part to the simpler type.

4. Unity of Form in the Sentence. In our revising, it is well to pay attention to unity of form. This doctrine may be stated in an elementary way as follows: "A sentence should be uniform in structure. There should be no sudden, unnecessary change in subject, or in the form of the verb. Sometimes a sentence is pulled about by the mind as a child by a cross nurse. It begins in the active voice, it is twitched aside into the passive. It begins as the act of one person, it ends as that of another. Even so admirable a writer as John Fiske has this sentence: But Howe could not bear to acknowledge the defeat of his attempts to storm, and accordingly, at five o'clock, with genuine British persistency, a third attack was ordered.' This British persistency' is evidently Howe's. Why not give him full credit for it, thus? But Howe could not bear to acknowledge the defeat of his attempts to storm, and accordingly, at five o'clock, with genuine British persistency he ordered a third attack.'”1

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1 A First Manual of Composition, Chapter V.