The New England magazine . a crack in theboard floor. Toe the mark! Make your bow!Mind all the stops and speak up loud! were theorders from the teacher. On entering the schoolall pupils were required to Make their manners,— the boys a bow and the girls a courtesy. Thebooks for oratory for the older boys were TheAmerican Preceptor, Scotts Elocution, andWebsters Third Part. These were full ofpatriotic speeches — Freedom, Liberty, and In-dependence for the sons and grandsons of the Revo-lution. The primitive schools, notwithstanding theirlimitations, furnished many successful men andwomen. A prom
The New England magazine . a crack in theboard floor. Toe the mark! Make your bow!Mind all the stops and speak up loud! were theorders from the teacher. On entering the schoolall pupils were required to Make their manners,— the boys a bow and the girls a courtesy. Thebooks for oratory for the older boys were TheAmerican Preceptor, Scotts Elocution, andWebsters Third Part. These were full ofpatriotic speeches — Freedom, Liberty, and In-dependence for the sons and grandsons of the Revo-lution. The primitive schools, notwithstanding theirlimitations, furnished many successful men andwomen. A prominent educator said that the oldcountry farm was a great laboratory, and this,added to the country-school discipline, developeda scientific taste and great persistency, in whichcountry boys excel. The customs, the industries, and the social hab-its of the early settlers have greatly changed. It isa problem for the future to solve whether theAnglo-Saxon race can keep ahead under these newconditions. Mary F. T. TWO notable biographies claim attention thismonth: that of Edwin Lawrence Godkin andthe story of the journalist, politician, and hardhitter, Charles A. Dana; each carefully and ad-mirably prepared by an intimate friend. RolloOgden, of the New York Post, writes of Godkinscareer, and Major-General James Harrison Wil-son, of Dana. Great men come in clusters said Lowell, andothers note that three distinguished men often ap-pear in one department of the worlds work ascontemporaries. Add Horace Greeley and youhave a trio well worth careful study, each a bornfighter, fearless, severe, and at times cruel. God-kins face, the lower part, was of the bull-dogtype; Danas side-face, at least, shows the thought-ful scholar; while poor Greeley, to use Godkinsdescription, had a simple, good-natured, andhopelessly peaceable face framed in long yellowlocks and a faded all-around beard. To see himwalk up Broadway, you would take him for asmall farmer of the Quaker persuasion, wh
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