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C * 15] \#1 t «ww stenes jusl be witnessed, will: usapiy >+, ay & Vikik sustuned . by _ Mcosars. . Jduiligam . an Mcturegor, airhough the laiter was in coupie ol iustadces evideiiliy Wius ui iL Vext as, iOFf iislwinco, iL eserillby Li document absirectesy on boaru ship a e . iwo . cierks â€" Inféutding . to . uiurâ€" | (011.4 dor Henry write him a now en | un img _ him . to _ a lonely _ place _ in | kowci the mountaims. _ lieury baving diopped | Cusee :'..l:i:,:nl::wwtmc‘ it is louna | $raiu y w suspec tne desgy, | Otan starte in a bandâ€"Gmr ufiuu & sovers | price whase between the imiter and the errgine _ A i resoues Henry, and the two cierks uare | 4% L killou. ‘The principai part of Jacoo was | §« lust night very cieveriy sustmnea by the ' uho Like eminent deimentor of Duteh charaow:, | _ Mi Air. Baker; and for himsel! anud uis wiie | W1Ou; Christine (Mr. Farron) ampie scope is | any «llowed during the piece for the display | 3vuc of their abilities as singers auc duuce‘s. i Duiic Mr. Huarrison made a gouu Lienry, anu | bigil acted Whrougbout with a correct cuucepâ€" | dead: wou of the part. . We havye, nowever, io , 4i mke exception, as we have uoue ou a preâ€" | More vious Occasion, Lo liis dress, Wwiuiclk reseqm | gTOAL bied ruther the gary ol a ciergyman than 44e v that of a cultured and fastmou .bie sou of . ~€i6u a bamier. Jvery 0no, cavepl ug, poiuaps 09 1=c Uuwas‘s urkka tiousk.â€" lhere wus a yooud attendance hbere iast evening l witness the production ol the seusitwi draime in four acts, iot the lert.ie pen ol Mr, Cimy li. Queene, entuued " ine Cul wiove, the plot of which umay be urieily stabed as louows : _ AMr. Stacey, a bauke: in Sadien Basien, has « son Henry and 1two clerks, Chouneey burr mnd Holworts, i uis ollice, mil of whom gambie preity largely. ue frst named clerk, in oruer w carry on lis gambling procuvities, steais some ton Lhousand irunts Lro Lio sale in & manuner to lead Lis masier t beâ€" _heve that bis son lieury had been gluily ot the thett. Mr. Stacey going in pursuit of his son finds him at a ciub where, atter explanstions from him, he meets burt a«nud, on charging im with lhe theil, is stabbou while the _ glove _ woin by Burt is â€" cut _ through. . Jacom linds the glove auu decirues he will yet im the hand that lits it. lhe next uct preâ€" senls the lutter party und lhe cerks ou bourd ship bound for America, where Burr, aiter stealing the un bax oi uis sister containing a will anu some money, throws her overbourd, when Jucob juuips in after anu resoues ler. _A concert ga/ uen in New York uext uppears us the rendesvous of the pafty, muud L@re Jucos is afrested at the imnstance of Burr, wio aecuses him of havidg stolen Lis walcL, anu lienry who since the murder of his | lather has beenu on ths truck ol lue iwo clerks is arrested as an accompiice. They | next Lurn up i0 L‘@husyiyiiia, Whetw | livei Cirty Couscisn â€"ibe City Counci,| AUd Arithmeétic as his busis »nd endeavour of liuli met last uight it gir. Aichaim ’ tw muke the pupils thoroughly underâ€" beuil‘s ollice. tii Worsuip the May o,, | stand tuem. â€" a Alr. Marston, and Amietimen teely, hicher, | _ M#. UUXcaX speaking from is experiâ€" uautluer, â€" Srighanmy, â€" iiude, _ irudeue, | 940C 4 a Leacher thought the programme Famkner and Simmys being present _ i.i0 | / stidies a feasible m‘ and with a minules Of the iase meeling ailer being judirious clasaitication 1 be success read, were 0n moliou® ‘wiupted. . Lhe loi "“:.’ °""‘"l.‘“‘$'p‘ of tw Collegintp lowiny Bames wele plupused us Assessoft» he iay. T. D, Puiruirs 2 j of ie city, Messrs, }."M‘.' Dorpin anu | lustitute argued that even if u few teachâ€" Caron. [The assessore wil be seiecteu ai | €"* ©ould from their experince prove that the next meeling of the wouncii. _ The | LD¢ vhwsilication was successful, ts fact Byâ€"law, reguiaumg bonuses, eic., was inâ€" | D4t« similar result could be attamed by: formally dsavowed, andft was» resoived io |L@uchers generally was not shewu. He weter further action upon it untu their| W3# S4tisicd that under the old system at next 1/ eétiug, . The Councu tuenu ugjoury. | 14444 some sliQjeots were thoroughly nansâ€" ou to meet i3 Ar. Archambavit‘s vllice ay | 1G@re4 _ He was afraid there was too muci o‘ciock on the eveniug oi the Zvtu inst, | DOlination to borrow h'om he Amoricaun Afhuck anw Plock, in wuicu alr. J . 8. Mailit and Mons~Jos. Uarou uske the lesding rules. lhis Wili be loilowed vy a very enlertaumng Yarlety periormence, said to u.t. best traveliumg. Loey will duublicss draw large bouses tor tiie three nighw they remain im the cily. i hose desious ol naving a goou augis shou«d not lai to sew the £LCk and Ewcak vantomime. weil as a large coucc showing Lhei respec their decessed pasio Cleryy assistew & to by heys, J pague, (Gi who can inalnay the smie on L.im LOrual â€" UKbDLNaFION,â€" Lou service this wl the CathodiTuc survey ors unuel Lhe .\ harge dlichauy, Civi bagiueer, ieil uy Ui & U. lw buo Uuis INOFDiBA lor Dt LouÂ¥0e . Oydonsburg Laares Ugidumour .. j..)\. s Artives in Neow \ > .i9 pus Armives in Ladt® tm SkPEEVNGevoree reaues r ve bointhtrmmertinninnionedtsnaicemmat iesns i nesas Amvee.~.... 7.33 amy 4104 pu AABADA CLATKAL l Aik Ww €2Â¥0s L POsOOLL ) unol.ou 11iÂ¥@» 1 KiX s «k Is, . WA 4 Boad B oo on 1, LAW khRCOR 4Nb CUCKÂ¥T mal + KRHMON 1 MabimuA Aln. . Severs &0“‘ ‘uik 44 + tJ a se a ta lt 3 4P TA M dn ROAS LWA J iL L Lix w FAKTY.â€"A eeccsccs ds i ) Polliky bere w â€"â€" Ale NOX wob pree [ PQOOTCODT T0 y und Lae cerks ou | lOled to lake for | America, where | progranime t ; the un bax otf uis |!4 (he abson vill anu some money, | @Xpemencé.. _ . d, when Jucot juwmps | _ air. Hhistabr, C her. A concert wat | Mhought it fuip LCOXE upp6Are us the zmmu:u : wto Pby, mud lere Juceso Wouk, ahncd . di ustance of Burs, wis | tion ol _ vile g stolen fis wamws, | might be | oX we the murder of his | tw ur o ths truck ol the iwo | Bs to lae advan un accompiice. They | l0# waching ut vonusyiyania, Whore | CAbilily i pru mteuding . io . uiurâ€" | demwresm i\ wl him . a note mw-lm-u‘uwhd lonely _ place _ in | beachers in |the Dx GBO, | vj ) TObC. and | _ lis. iuouuurs, Rector. of the Coiâ€" , be 10 _ ivsiivute _ expressed _ muck the ?uw «t â€" whiat hi . cen elicited can | by the uscussion alrgady, ie mought a the | the goiuon mean of Aristotle might be ply reatuea in regard to this all mportaint | questiou. . in lus experience in H‘I 4 A rewhuluin was here submitted attirmâ€" | ang Loo Impracticawbility of ie New l‘rg= ‘ pramume, and ‘recommendipy a reduction n Lhe utuuber of studics. |__ Air. as, Qf_ the Centraul School West | mought wiuh others uuut (there wore 100 | many toxt yooks in use in the | ublic | Juuouis. _ lJe imought a greater success | souuu be atthined in educution by thorâ€" | uguly griudipg scholars in the subjects of Weadiug, Wiiting, Aritametic, Grammar, slislury, Ugjogruphy anud Bookâ€"keeping. More prothcipney could be obtained aud yroute~ pragticul uilts . would . tellow, ile was of| opin that the Naturul ~Ci10u0er «shguia be lelt out in |-|\~Amnuo‘ 2Â¥ Loo ulner #tUuiks. Mk. uus* uilured an amendment postâ€" ,Duing the discussion. Alter some remaurks from OLh@r teachers present prindipmily in apposition. to un! " miuilipnicity Of Llext boows, / 1t Wwaus sugâ€" g@stou ‘;Auqbuh resolumons sbould be & Ci0OsG. W L GLt ie W Id alr, lMistar, of the Colleginte Institute thought it inpossible to crowd sighteen wulujects : ujto _ the . spase _ 0t . one wouk, amd uid not lke the propomiâ€" tiun ol _ vile _ speaker, _ that mmy might be | dxtended over an + how tupre. llo ngreet with Mr. dmuirie Ine way. T. D, Pui.uiurs of the Collegiate institute argued that even if u few teackâ€" ers could from their experincé prove that Lhe clussilicatiou was successful, tie Tact } that a similar result could be artaimned by remchers generally was not shewu. He was s@tislic« that under the old system at least some sliyjecots were thorouglhly Dansâ€" tered. . He was afraid there was too mui1 inclination to borrow from the American system of education, where the tendency was to a superiicial knowl.llfn rather than a substaniial trainimg â€" He would iavour whe leaving out of the programme the siudy of the " Naturai Sciences.‘" _ r div.. saimiw, k’lmd: of the |Central school Easi thought discussion so far had boen productive ot good result,4s it hau eimcited the opinion of exporienced, men in the p; . _ e waus of opinion that there wore muny . subjeots. to: tewch in the publi¢ schools, but did not agree witu the opution expressed by the lust spreaier that the "Natural Sciences " should be dropped. _ lie thought no rellectiions shouid be _ cast upon the vouneul ol Fublic Instruction whicu should at least get credit tor goou intentions. He nad found that even an introduction 1 the muny subjecis had oreated a tasto lor stuidy, whi in this way tmach good had been accomplwhed. lie, however, would véder no preat otyection to dropping them provided the iiigh Subnools were comâ€" pullea to Lake theumiup. «ie u.am progranime _ too _ sevo ely â€" on in lhe absence of is lest by a longer e Xperi®no6.) . ‘ lir, alaxmy ot New Mmbt:fih vonsidâ€" wiud that fue Pubus schools aflurded the masser of the people the means of educe tiou. ie Look qwupdg: 10 the great number of subjects on " programime of studies ‘ and considered &u a few suljects taught thorougiuy would prove of more wiva)tage to those who attended the Pubne schools. lie would aiopt Grammar awjd Arithmetic as his busis »nd endeavour tw imauke the pupils thoroughly underâ€" years but the tendency was to superticiâ€" ality ip our training. _ lle favoured a thoâ€"ough maustery of any subjects taught in the l‘uphc \&QL . Mr. McAupis followed in an admirable review of the ‘pructicubility of the new programme of studies. . le was of opimion with a «chool! well graded the work pre seribed could ‘be . sucvessfuily accomâ€" gagemment in th 4 similar meet were _ now . e Borthwick (had the blank :cre inability to wtt in the everang, would atone to The Cuaim»xas, in a ew well chosen remarks, congratulated teachers upon wheir rnwuwo, as it shewed the interest hey feit im the‘ great educational work ::l‘)’ were to be instrumental in o‘rlzll:f dut. He regreited the absence of . wollwin Smith, who had beén prevented trom attending owing to & previous en gagetmueut in the West in comnection with i similar meeting to that in which they were _ now enfye-l. , The Rev. Mr. Borthwick had however consented to fill he blank ‘created through Mr. Smith‘s nability to attend by delivering a leocture n the eveming, and that in a measure vould atone tor the disappointment. Mr. Drxcax, principal of the f‘&‘fivol‘go'l V inl Primmary School, next read a very xpected Uhe M OF and the discussion brought.to 1uciliOLn of H paper u, * Comfim a rritigal mm lowed the this papery in which Mo::r b Nuirh? Martin, Thorburn ‘rs, Phillipps, Ross and Borthâ€" part. _ Mr. Duncan closed the rply l:fi to the isgues raised by i\ s peakers. â€" br Nchools would be uuflnd sition in the co. =try. High rs would have something to »ilecting j»uch an arrange x of the Uttawa Collegiate poke. _ He stated that in hey did not require to get even subjects, while in our ‘hey have to teach sevemâ€" n The first might‘re rarch or thought, but for _comparing the ages‘ of _ Was grealer. . iarenls ieir pupils . would . get n M t . Smimus the first disâ€" racon programime was m the Multiplicity of i4 nok the chair at 2 int to adjournment. , i\ D., of the Metâ€" was called upoun to ~ Un the .\lulhpl'wil)' use in ue lublic dered tirere wore too v. Mr. Borthw le 1 Sooois â€" & ouher teachers ; Iman. . be hus failings, peculiarities and osition. to ue | deliciencies asother men, afd like the y / it wus sugâ€" ) rest of hi race be disukes to have his ms sbould be | f«ults told to him. ‘Thuere are some, inâ€" ion brought.to |deed, who hold that this is the weakest point of the teacher‘s churacter. By such row should be ! men «> schooimaster has been iooked morough ‘disâ€" ) upOn as a little embodiment of selfâ€" question. _ He | sutliciency. *‘There struts a perfect pmdwwmb.rmwhbiw one, and the ry. ‘There may in certain cases be wn in to be mhmdnuurfionthnmhnm} ol relaxation important. Accustomed to rule and ica, $Aoe would; |bear no rival near their throne, and find | ment‘ to t .4 uolmwumlhnuthom mou uow cluse ,'WW.‘W“ to lay aside their ‘m-'mhbnmdthhch-,l am of the (Coiâ€" | c0n! among us. Permit me then to ssei _ muck | be the friend, the one of yourseives, who wen . elicited vfl'mmfl%n:wfl.dw ie shought a | 1e#s4, reproving wi hoiding up to cusd whereby n-hul:wâ€"ms truth in a tie might be r*. t i aud iove. . Who will all important / do this in answering the question, are our 10e iD ulmwul Belore he deserves adjourned till esent sy tom in 1ought much of exclusively the they were abroâ€" r» â€"Anuscrent ing Kagreises to of Sebook teaci L‘hl' reâ€" but for iges of L wreonts the eare not to go ; we would rauther not descend _ to _ particulars. ~ _ Human nature is frail apd erring, but it is also selfâ€"«leceiving, it commits an evil deed nqd-nuql:g by drawing a ourtain over it to hide it from the eyes of men. But may not one ¢f qurselzos enter into judg» ment with us and open up unto us our failings. He mauy btx even he must do it tenderly. if h‘ will nprly tho knife be must handie it cautiously. If he wifi administer reproo{ he must just sweeten the bitter draught by nocceptable words. No argument is required to prove the gmv..uqyamu of vhe proiession of teaching "to highest interests of the community and of the high soral standâ€" ingâ€" which it occupiesâ€"the most useful man being in the Aol:t run tho greatest man. Uf all men then, the successful teavher is a groat man. Still he is but‘ . Itus NgcussiITY or a JNGlkk LITERARY CUI i ; TURE BY oUR TRAQiEEs, o6 n tonae enc Schobl work, he subjects too, great ® | in the tiume presc ‘ Inajector of Hiy | vinit uo the city *| to a similar foel ) had been the ex uoktion ‘will ‘be cléa';eudoul. on the ifstrument that is employed to enliven it, via.the tencber, _ All agos have tried to ucute, but to our time it was reseryed see the necessity of perfecting the importunat instrumentality in educa fi:’-u.. teacher. / llence works on 'ign _the _ result _ is _ depondent, ‘The highest truly demands the highest mu Anul'u:uzflw-uoouam will ‘be depenmdent on the _ in theso times of intellectual progress, develovpment and activity, when the Press is hourly pouring forth for the educa tion, instruction and uplifting of humanâ€" ity, its teeming myriads of volumes in mlmost every form of human speech, when ue with an inclination towards| "letters" hovering around the goiden portal of the temple of I-rnn* gathering up some \vundermfi;'l-eam rom the Altarâ€"Throne within, when such a one | say is called upon from the circumstances of hbis position to address his fellow }abourers, a difficulty at on e presents itself, " What shall 1 suy ?" " On what subjoct shali ( treat?" _ Leotures and addresses illus trat.ny almost every phase of thought hndovel?' subject of human knowlofi;- are _ 0/ such _ frequent _ delivery that nonltLi- impossible. _ Let me then, if 1 cannot be novel and orig.nal, let me be at least useful. _ Born, I may say, and bred a teacher, i would contribute my mite towards the elevation of that most useful of all classes of our iellow citizens, towards their levation to a h"flor posiâ€" tion than they now vccupy in estimaâ€" tion of the community at large ; and in oodomg.remit me to address you this evening, ladies and pnuunon\ou the subject just announced, "The Neccssity of a Higher Literary Culture by our Teachers." _ Let us remember that the teachers of our time need all the training and culture they can acquire. ourqoil‘ more dependent on intellectual cul ture than any previous one. _ The ::anuox of labour in the service of inâ€" lect over hbourml by mere habit and instinet is estab beyond dispute or argument. Between the weak hand In the evening a large assemblage of teachers and others interested in educha tion, met in the Court Hlouse to hear a lecture by the Rev. H. J. Borthwick, A. M., Inspector of the Publc schools of this city, on, The resolution was then carried, the Chairman reminding those present of the lecture in the evening by '.Ls Rev. H. J. Borthwick, Inspectorof the City Public Schools. Mx. Tuoxsurx next put a few of his class from the Collegiate Institue through some exercises in Geometry, with a view to explain a new and improved method of teaching this branch of Mathematics. The learned gentleman introduced the subject by a short historical sketch of the Ncience, giving some pleasant reminâ€" cences in connection with the study of it by some of the learned men of the olden time in Greece. . The very practical way in which the uul:iect. was handled by Mr, Thorburn was duly appreciated by all present. _ _ Mr. Parcow then moved an adjcurnâ€" ment till this morning at 9, o‘clock, coupled with whicn he fixed the reading and discussing of the following papers : â€" Mr. McMillian on " The ‘Teaching of Arithâ€" metic," and Mr, smirle on " The Practical Training of Teachers.", . in the tume prescribe } by the pupils The ins;ector of High schools on a recant vimit io the city, bag giving expression to a similar feeling, and stated M it had been the ex periertce %m of the High sSchool masters in the ince.| He believed that too much work enfeebled the physical powers, he for one | was not prepared to them for any wreat mental acquir that might be attained. _ He believed in teaching a fow subjects andâ€" acquirffig a thorough kpowâ€" ledge of them. This principle oncé es tablished, thorougbness in every sphere of after life was sure to follow. | He felt that in the interest of education the number of textâ€"books should | be reduced. in regard to the _ Natural sciences about which so much has Leon said, he thought m‘ti:nw the powers of observation rathor than those of the intelâ€" l';tv, and to his mind the latter was the most essential to acquiring a thorough education. | | _ The amendment to the amendment| was then put to a vote and carried. work, he found the, number of too, great to be thoroughly gragped area Lo sa ital wcquire He beliey TEACHING GEOMETRY KVENING LEOTURK TIMES : OTTAWA, SATUORDAY: MAY:22, A87o per to the thing worshippéd. ‘This i spodally tns vase in the phrocis w iop, rar ie $ x+ n eauuay.uo ition of the ve an Mn; lmpressioun ¢ the mind and heart.. mmmi‘ffiq Ammmbuivemmh attention to any pursuit wi being in some deâ€" gree moulded by the contact. Devotion, whether paid to worldly or spiritual ob .'Wo taiuk 'u'bu.m Wha R.'fl Il'u&.o.t;h-:u-o' accentsâ€"the wmfi 8 ; oat K. | An A but in â€" M | ever, than now. A hus begun to h | be wrought with wmm malter. * | Teachers begin to see that to be properly f | esteemed, their rel importance must be * | known. ‘To show their importance they â€"| must _ exhibit . their ~ strengthâ€"â€"to 1 | be strong m‘tL must .. be: ‘united. 1 | Individual effort they see will not do. It â€" | is a mere expenditure of force without ) | any result upon the elevation of the h | but continued efforts with common t and oanlmu interests will on command & M‘hor social | t | the other hand men mm & Mdvumwflun;’g‘-lhtgh, the , |niovatinn ware aarge uo kighe mutient 1 were Or so | ) as now, and m:dhponnn of ‘ those 1 wwwvmgntmmfio: » m groater reciation. e hmgor howoever, lw.flmul! much to i bhm.dxunoomp-nun lowness of his !-ound-un«uu. ie has not in the past proven himself worthy of a muchâ€"hi b LL“' HMe has not as a genoral | kept pace with the advancement of the *| times. _ He has been moving, but his ‘ | fellows have been moving faster, _ We do ‘ | not at present spoak of his professional attainments, his merely scholastic knowâ€" ‘| ledge is in 'nncnl not deficient, we | speak now of teacher as a man and .| a member of society, viewed lnuutw |he has not wn‘ly pro, ressed, classes have mequired as much general ll:mwhdpwu:: ;.MMNWN'M terature That I hi | attainment will do much to dovLm teacher in the estimation of men can | hardly be d:u.&ulc’ln t“‘l.mowlodpmh 1 power "! it in t 5; flo ty 1A d%.“ hun"fl?vhu terary become the passport to distinction, The ~noble â€"Lord and the humble wwk;r.,whomr’udukg.ln the Held, seen treading same moonmun.my of lettrs ‘h.u-rhr .....u&“um; republican, preserits no to u&nh-bnwlthintupdo of true nm in whatover clasw it may be found. p Duiflerin, is a citizen of thu‘nd ree publhbnot because he is a orerw ' ernor General of Canada, but because he | h.umx:hordh::%uu,nd“:lbh to c!: : ress his thoug pen tongue fcruuulvi@roun in‘lhh,udm | the poet of Canadu, native born, y with the divina aftiatus, al ‘an || humble toiler in a Government office, not | only treads the opter court of the temple | of Sletters,‘‘ but even ministors at hor{n * most -Iwmn’ m;fl you t.:.obon, ladios : and gen you but present a wellâ€"founded | claim, will not be: denied | ch.muofoithcmhllrhshh most ‘gloâ€" | © rious of all fields. Still further, a literary | * taste in uwmchu not only tends to | 4 raise his position in the eyes of the world, | * butwoul«l assuredly have a beneticial effect | ° on the taught. ‘g.‘uohndm“dimhu tho!: uage, 60 yestures o there is a bond of sympathy between | * teacher and taught. As the poet says: . | long spokenâ€"of as bein, l!m shj’ctm,unoblo,a’hflo,mqo assort their true dignity and imuno. Contented with obscuri tm ought to have had, and m have if they had claimed it, a much higher standing. ‘This accusation i+ in .mfi part true, much more in the past, to be called literary, a man must have done more than obtained a mere smatter: ing of Latin and Greek. Thase are of great importance, indispensable as & Afoundation, but further then that they do i not go. He omy ean lsy clsim to that | title who has mequired a consider | ably . extensive , knowledge . of the | literature of his country . past and | present. Neither _ will the _ mote }wt that be has read a certain number of | books given him the right to a niche, } however humble to the great temple of | letters. He caunot be said to know a country who has merely passed over its | aurface led by the‘swift impulse of almighty | staam, but he who has threaded its inâ€" | tricacies, studied its fulur? examined its prominent beatities and rotains a lively . intelligent remembrunce of its points of {ctere«t. In like manner he is the truly literary man who has not only read extensively but who has in some deâ€" gree made himself master of what he has read, who has learned to decide upon the genius and morit« of different anthors and to apppeciate what is best in each. In short it is not dallying with the muses that will make a man literary, We must have reaped a harvest, rwhinpidon and sbund.?:‘ The mt must have been rl; tined, .intelloct strengthened, t judgment sharpened. ‘The rude block of nature must have been polished by. conâ€" tact with minds of a higher order and must have become more graceful by that contact than it could have been without it Letit not be .said that we set up too high a standard. We do not expect ov:d kwnh to see ... uwh‘cvn :;oomo encyclopodias. e no monut‘.fim what is within the reach of almost every teacher. Bo after all we look to the tendency more than to the amount of progress, to the direction of the text more than to the At:.inment made in that direction. ‘ _ print pluce not entitled to be called literary. ~ Ha stated our conviction, a uonviodolhrm from a large induction of that teachers are not in general E::q, we some to the questionâ€"* ':luhc m&. so ? Whu.‘fiunm be if they were more usintance with these giants of old, and .:iax the even greater glants of Groek dmo(dmkoloquonoo,ol(}nokzi: r.m.ry. Pflfnflmmflhn fore the and humbly bowing the knee in awe and reverence as the matinee forms glide before us in shadowy outline we are compelled after all to confess that hitherto we have been but as children picking: up here and there » pehble on the shore of the great sea of knowledge, in a word that as » class our teachers are may _ be _ scanty, but if it be of the . right â€" kind, _ we _ would acâ€" copt |of it as sufficiont to establish a rightful claim to the fair epithetâ€"literary. Now, do teachers in general work up to this standard. Are there mwhwho do ? Not many, we are assured. Why, then, are there so few,. Simply because the course of study through which teschers have to pass in order to obt â€"in a certificate even of the highest cluss is a comparativeâ€" ly limited one. Now, do not, 1 beseech you, ;:magine that I diupu-lgo in the »lightest your noble efforts to obtain those distinctions now mentioned. ‘They have in many cases within my own knowledge been obtained under many discourage ments ond after much honest and earnest labour; but still after all does the posâ€" session 0! these distinctions entitle us to be called liunm 1 trow not. Let us puss with the swift gleam of thought over the vast nnfl:lf.:wdcm literatureâ€"not only that embodied in the English longu;} but that of the modern nationalities Europe, of the German, French, Italian, Spanish and other peoples, Lot us brin | before our dazzled e‘yu Goothe and Sohf- ler, Moliers and dmb:nu and Petrarch, Cervantes and is. â€" How many of us have read the works of these mighty giants of literature even in tran«â€" lations? Tracing our ob&-:lp the stream of wme till we reach ‘ period when English and Germ«n, French and Italian, Spanish aud Portuguese were not;" whep the Iu’\nce of Cicero and Virgil, Horace and â€" ‘av: wu\lw form ofsrooh otm.uof'mind. Alns how meagre is our CO~ on : fow minute {:otwmxnmlmb?a minutes m:g:‘m the standard of their M&fldwm;wma: ...M'uhth mkl::?hudu. "The especially in the world ofâ€"letters. . /"The part of the ‘curriculum.‘ through which a wwwhflwlflll:ll:‘m to obtain the highost w noble p'o‘m', \ + know of Gireek m::mmbomufl acquaiDiabo® With the literature of those 2“.% which are used as the might be if all his faculties were brought mtghfuuuhg.mmm pl‘nl. There : is a great future in education if we . work. it out ru:l.y. 'l'uoh;r:d alone can do & We must have parou ucalted, o t bring to “P:'l. right influence on“z olulu‘s lite. We must have the public educate | so ‘that men in high position might make arrangements wiaich would. not be detrimental to the whole interests of euucation; und we lflll“h"“n whole Wywu it might second the s +Every buman being is capable otf hurc good und a happy man, and if that is the case, why mun:cnmmwo:dhw:-,mg to make meon _'m’o; * hn.minodth'.go, them the ouwet in the eration of our pru'h-?'noz .dwul but .the yery '.hh'alw ich of all others is to be Avdm «»â€"dull routine. If teavhers (do notâ€"stir the educational: faquities, they deuden them, and if they ‘dewden a human soul & mmdummmibmty ‘restw‘ upon‘ them. . The fihln{l desire to im: press upon you is â€"that 1 leel conviriced there is un OMOrmous waste of mental energy in this world.. I believe the differ: ono-‘zom«u a savuage and an onnm humbelngonhh:rhnotmh a reth part compared with the difference of :{‘:-h‘. ha l: Alll‘ his Farmitime m lwnhm‘?-% rance and &ofinfivo rou-ly' ) In concluding part 0/ # me endeavour to impross |fl:uly )on your minds two things, ‘The first» is"that the worlke of a reaohor : is (the mgn artint duu? with complex and t subjects, None but a person who . really has considerable culture and into human ‘nature can deal with the education of young and the teacher who has not proper culture and insifht into human nature is very apt to in the lessening of vice and crime Ind uteary se atten ho cenpnapa ie ferrigee qyrre Right vaingu and move suitably rewarded. ~The greate: and stil} greater influence Mtho."mnlu will be sgen in the gradual elevation of the Let them see to it that they make that instrument effective only. for good and that the good be the highest that can be attained. | If they come to the: work proâ€" Kuummhhodwlthdp qudwlguudoa"w.: ye been d&nmtl:r 4# as those . more . us _ required .. of wield an instrument of mighty power, highly the praises of literature or that we degnand from temchers an attainment that is unattainable, . If the of the study were fairly the barriers moral condition, and the same discipline will assuredly make the teachers more: fitted for his great office. W hatever elevates him as a man elevates him as a teacher,. The same qualities that ‘make him ac« ceptable in society will give him success in the school. _A man cannot personate l"iwk? ndhbiuinu:bblyml::bthom luge m i selves with and give a color to his ‘official duties. Let it not be mht,thun ‘h"li'm.jmthntdnnboyund“' of our we nohoduhoulddurmuoh-rlfl':rnuoh more deeply into literature than they do, terhaps somp advance might >e made in this respect. 1t is in the spirit that liter» :.tmhfin-mot‘?hh ,nndm:‘hhh again conveys we Moiuohbmdth% 1t is because of the elevated tone that it :vutoduwholomn. They do not olieve that we have either sounded too. broken down. We car trust that ieaginers will comtider those ihuige They of the under his care. <If the teachâ€" crhk!nd, fnuulpnt, active and refined, his labours wi.1l be nonug:adlm.{mm the frait mill almags bour some Mroportion it will alw some to the intensity :{'Mqullm :fl mind. _ ‘The malleable muaterial homldnwmawminun Tt iacot . ; just as i it is well or ill deflined. m.:m mighty influence of the teacher;/and so wnmswcuhwn‘ best possible in kind and degree, of how great in it . he should bring the hi to bear upon the wor! e have already head and hm and determining what the future man shall be. But even these subâ€" ordinate influences derive their tone and chwracter from the genius and temper of the teacher who governs the whole. tiko some great rnonfiv'lwu enthunin;: caught up by every soldier‘ in army, and whose commanding mind is seen in every thing, whether in the deâ€" cisive onset :;- & the luu“momto: arrangements 0 calp, mind the enthusiastic uwhox? pervades and controls the little as well as the great things that make up the early experiences it shall be tall and -prwxu‘{ or a stunted and improper thing. We do not say that all the influences of school depend upon or are “m&h f?umwmsfio The asso ciations, the fri ips, rinlriui ovont.bemuyhudn that form a part ol every scholar‘s life have all an importâ€" ant share, are: allâ€" only ° so mapn Tutors stently but eurely educsting both to bear up5nit.. We accept in all their breadth those common phrases which are used to express the plestic nature of children. 'l‘hey jare as waxâ€"they are as blank paper,"‘ ready to receive any impression ‘we please. " They are as tlum;:no’:l gmndbuuty th‘:d fitlnou when matur upon early ‘training they. have pr:oeivvd. The school is ‘a great nursory. Its influences are of won derful power, second only to those of home, and the teacher is the guiding hand that lifts the sapling into sunshine, gives it&ieneotiom and bas in a great measure the power of deciding whether It extends the sphere of his sympathies, givln&t.,hom preater intensity. Jt enters :).}‘;i,fo l(‘l’l' .ndm mp um°3" and im & veness to the sterner and more utuluin' duties that devolve upon us. As Cicero says in one of .his famous :Kmh“ in the Roman forum, m e poet‘s causoâ€" referring to © uence of literary -l‘eli‘.b. id age, se I vi Acie c t old age, adorn ty, affo a refuge and solace inw:i‘:m‘yty give satisfaction at home, do not hinder us abroad, spend the night with |:aooom parly us in our travels and go with us to our country retreats." Great as is the 5P. hm'hh‘:h .fiwi,tho nf u im who pursues influâ€" ,x which the teacher has upon his rupih ‘is still 5:“" and more certain, n the one case soil of the heart may have been wx.‘hndomd by sinister im pressions, so it refuses to be solt enedâ€"in the cther, the hardening conâ€" Tiud mos ty beur opere instneanty An e t: opens M 2o the sunny influences‘ that are Irought Euk Anitbe es ons e d e t i surely entwine themselves around â€" our hearts and creep into the rough crevices of our nature and find a ready lodgment, thus filling in the irregularities and imâ€" perfections and making venul man more symmeatrical and more graceful than beâ€" fore. Nor is this good influence ‘»md in its nature. lu?‘rrun in the little as well as in the great things of life. 1t modifies the man‘s whole bx:fi.mdvfivu a new mim and direction to his individual likings. forth by nature‘s choicest sons finds a ready response in the universal + ies of mankind, One can comâ€" mence with the Miltons and Shakespenaros of the pastâ€"the Macauleys, Wordsworths and Tenysons of zl_npnc!on‘,vizhou‘!.‘ bofeg fuade a better and a wiser man by the uweet converse, Thoir noble creations, like some fair plant on an old rugged wall, imperceptibly perbaps, but not the less to the cultivation of liternture as sub. | Ais, hand .a>book which shews us many utes | 120ré. .. in this book, "The Inferno," hers Duuu.::umpoew:mewmw‘ ir | nany aiteiwards, has patited lor us ail and | A/ , #eunarch, tue pricslty ientroiâ€"â€" e e esnt d TECEE 'm “". “.» anud ‘ gay, down to the sternest ul ‘ them ‘all, the gloomy and ter 1g, tasuc Ariosto, the melancholy, dev and si Tasso, aud all the Thug! line â€" of â€" Haing Podly â€"grave Of Eusope, tmne great German language, and what a litorature.~ Frouiâ€" ite earliest dawn in Winkieman‘io the niddie of lust | century, with his " History of Art,‘ foi | towed by Amping, ho again by Merder=â€" somdercy oo + ratipe 20 t posk, M , wit a thin} i sucl; owas Ajoethe with mum tions ‘of ‘Werther,; Faust und Wilheim Mesterâ€"Schulterâ€"whaut « noble picture ::l‘utry O ~hisvorical portrails . has Le ‘vied for‘us ull, depicwnt as they might havy looked in réality but cubunced and onmmmm bi tme . ught of genins. But we must hasten on me; cold, , regions of : the nortu o ‘the _ sunny south, w / Italy, claiming our avtention from the fact that its literature;is the earliest of any conseâ€" querice of which, modern Europe ‘can boast, At the threshoid ‘o‘:‘ modern Buropean literature we t nustore E‘ véenetable ‘ tiure on.mh, aoad" in> .Llld,.nhoox which shews us many more. . in this book, "The Inferno," »Duuh,fioMqu‘mwmdof mny aite: wards, has paitited lor us all Aiter . Dante, LPetrarch, tue priesty IBUWt now dwily too iouy i1 these churming 0s oi suumy srinde.. ow wb me a ttle douges ui l cucommund tw your motice in connscuou with the quuject 1 have in handâ€"that zmmost imaportant inâ€" tresting and opuient, both in itselfl and I4 its literature of the northern tongues f "Ptrlod' n united whatever is best in w . the great goniuses enumerated in the rolloall of the grand Frenchâ€"army, "Voltaireâ€"at once pout, dramatiusty phiio. sophery historian, man of scienceâ€"A man O! | universal /. acquirementsâ€"universal witts. ~No man was ever perhaps endowed with a mind so Hoxible as hisâ€"nis idogs alwhys clour, always naturai, cuame 1| him with that tmorlity Mm'l‘:m ap &ik m which is # over all h:u‘m:fu abd > render m the delight of ages yot 10 come, ~But 1 clude, uw"'bignm’“'"’fips"-m" ble for Trarmure of Proudy fas ut the attonuen f on qmm“yhphm. much are we f w them in their respective worksâ€"Moliere and Lakontaine,Corneille, Embâ€"wm W m.' ulmu,m md hat 4 illus n and what a :my I:ndun ied im Wolrm\nrubp. ‘ooury, philosophy, earnest # all uio Gheree c Bar Pn thouy mate oi mt state of the secoud or third sude comp@red wwum,uwor $vm fitst ‘magnitt ~mas who in yalaxy, of lilustrious 'pfiu does it not in elude, ,lwwwmf: Lhat .@L@Vimtin | PL . pOkl £0J apprcoin tion of mmnwm"mm 1 am adv m*h':'homwn 4 m' } o‘ b muw;u, at poem of Victor the lakt soug of and the dying ‘ vehicle of thought by #so many powerful minds of the prosesy age, . Without such skill in ‘the ascent and modern ltera tures atluded to, one cannot fully appreâ€" ciste the grandest of them all either «ncient | or modernâ€"thar of bur noble Emglish tongue destined to be doubtiess in the coming ages the universal language, little argument is needed to ‘i.mo this All will at once consede that study of Ianguage, if properiy conducted acoustoms us not ouly to cormect thinking, but also to a correct and appropriate manne: of expressing our thouguts, . If the study ol langua :n’m general} then does this, what reason is there for giving a preference ‘to the study of the doi‘ Ianguage of Greece and Rome as the formation of all literary knowledge and excelience. First, ho cause :lv&r.y large .lmu, incml:lnlu p o portion worads of our own 0. are taken from the (Greek ‘and hun‘,u::d be properly understood without a lodao! those tongues, and second: ly, that whole of our literature is in t’ar‘rsndmb-unu so much interwoyen . with . that ofb:he Geeks rou‘;lnd Romans thnt it is iimpossible tho y » to compre« hend the one and thus a knowlod.op oi the others, Examine the best anthors in our literature from Chaucer down to the present day and you will find yourseif obliged almost in every to go back to AmlBome‘tofim‘hotruth that: is to dyon on your road. Without that aid, our literature would be an unâ€" intelligible mystery, ‘This is a great and stubborn fact which we wmm: unless indeed we umy our whole ture:and bgfl::f h on an entirely new Indefi it we camiot aiter s aingledvie we n & iotw but. 'rh itNu it TW’ s to it, Nay, : 1 Buropeâ€"that of the present day and thut. dfimm to come is and will be connectâ€" ed land in a great manuer dependent upoh that.ofthe ancientsâ€"and the more we advance in. poionc;j, literature and â€" art the ltr’o?e.r ill become _ tie tie© _ tha connects us with the anclents, for it is to their l.wunge- that we are perpetually obliggd ‘W9 resort for uew terms and forms of words. 1t would be diffidult then, I nay, almost impossible, to discover m&gwu, the study of which combines so many ‘and surpasâ€"ing advantages for the prosecution of literature as the languages of the ?h.m:n;n 1 Romn,htbr we have in them nguages which are no longer in a state of progress and change, but bu‘ in themseives._ ‘The national mm the Greeks and Iomans in them, reveals itself to us in all its phases. We can uwihi:z from the very dawn of iiteratupeâ€"to ‘ time when it reached its highest poing of dovomomm. and we may witness the m decay of their languages until, in and â€" charneter, â€" tuey became different tongues. We have tuus placed b‘;fi:‘ us 1wo languages, as it wm d .cn&vnur, manifesting in l organic develgpment the same, or simiâ€" lar, phenomena that all other lunguages have to pass mh. Every point is tixed and estai and our investigaâ€" tions ate not impeded by auy of the con flicting opinions und fashions which, in a\ hyh“nf-,hp‘m., so long as there is any, vitality in is, we must needs encounter and thus, for our mental Aruming f in literature, we may choose the * such as they were at the very next period of their existence and as they are handed down to us by the bost writers of, whom their..respective . nations ;can ’uun. ~What a vista opens up before us to gase and inpward into: the + 1B . ) t ,V o fuatns fhrung of mtaand world. We beiold ie pmamote of, C o xt Prore., of Phares ean be »upseribed for:mL the oflice & Waller, where book wil D6 i upell hur ui iarmweske mm-u-w-n:un -'--” ._92 nopencdsyy "';7."...]'2. w ) 44. L@“ w c J AMaigy Cl " * sSUC mrdour we must be constantly improving outselves in our art, so that we take our true place in the rank of li'ufige workers are the men who win, and of all workers we ought to be the bost equi that we have ”“"lth“““ wood and stone but with .beings 4 be mouldod for time and eternity, and for the moaluing of whith e shall have oue day to give an account. ;/ Moorish Spain I mm remar men Carvantes humour; .. 1/ Ald 6 spurit of lewn and awil w Tslc C 6 dral. _ and ow hrremAiltich oiow workers in the yob work® m RODIERIUK N Y AON ) 1 . «+4 . M. KAVANAaui OFfittrs. a #4 44 ue asaue d dou by leaving 1t at 1875. 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