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THE EDUCATOR-JOURNAL.

"Beaufort Chums" (Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.), by Edwin L. Sabin and illustrated by Charles Copeland. We are tempted to say that not since "Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry Finn" has a better boys' book appeared. The scene is on the Mississippi River and the action chiefly concerns two boys. 268 pages, 12 mo. cloth, $1.00.

The St. Nicholas Magazine, published by the Century Company, Union Square, New York, has many good things in store for its readers during the coming year. The "Pinkey Perkins" stories will be continued and another serial story, "The Crimson Sweater," will appear. "From Sioux to Susan," a girls' story, will be enjoyed by the boys equally well. "The President and the Boys," "A Travel Story" and a "Football Story" will be found among the single stories which will appear in the early numbers.

COMMON ERRORS IN SPEECH.

Who does not make errors in everyday speech? As a matter of fact it is very unusual to find any person whose use of the English language is absolutely correct. The following are examples of some very frequent errors or faulty expressions often heard:

"Let you and I go"-should be "you and me."

"I am as good as her"-should be "as she."

"You are younger than me"-should be "than I."

"Come to dinner with John and I,"should be "John and me."

"Between you and I"-should be "you and

me."

"Where are you going? Who? Me?"should be "Who? I?"

"Who was it by?"-should be "whom." "If I was her"-should be "If I were she." "Was it him?"-should be "Was it he?" "Who was it by?"-should be "whom." These examples of "faulty diction" are so

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common that many people look upon the improper form as being the correct one, and Thomas H. Russell, L.L.B., editor-in-chief of Webster's Imperial Dictionary, has done the public a great service in having written the new book entitled "Faulty Diction, or Errors in the Use of the English Language and How to Correct Them," which the publishers have, by printing it on thin Bible paper, succeeded in getting into what may be called vest-pocket size.

Illustrating the comprehensive treatment that has been given the subject by the author, there are 1,017 headings treated in the book, under some of which-"plurals," for instance-over fifty errors that are not at all unusual are to be found illustrated and corrected.

It is rarely one's good fortune to become possessed of so valuable a book, and especially one so compact and of as much general interest. It is handsomely bound in embossed Russia leather and will be sent postpaid on receipt of 50 cents to any address by George W. Ogilvie & Co., publishers, 169 E. Randolph street, Chicago, Ill. They also publish the same book in cloth binding and will send a copy of it in that style on receipt of 25 cents.

For colorwork, presswork and general beauty and usefulness, the December Delineator is conspicuous among the Christmas magazines. Eight paintings by J. C. Leyendecker, illustrating and interpreting the Twenty-third Psalm, is the most extensive color feature of the number, but a painting by Alphonse Mucha, accompanying a poem, "The Mother of Bartimeus," by Theodosia Garrison, is fully as notable as an art work. The short fiction of the number comprises stories by Hamlin Garland, John Luther Long, Gilbert Parker, and Alice Brown. The opening chapters of a new serial-a woman's club story-"The President of Quex," are given; it is said to be in the nature of a reply to "The Evolution of a Club Woman," which created great interest in the magazine last year.

4-E. J.

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Travel is recreation par excellence, with a proviso. Travel is work, worry and weariness to the flesh when it becomes a "hodge podge" of railway time tables, baggage checks, hotel bills, guide books, confused impressions and unclassified and untrustworthy information.

It is rest, it is recreation, when it is emancipated from the petty details of the mechanism of traveling, when it is redeemed and glorified by the illuminations of Art, History, Archaeology, under the inspiring interpretation of the real scholar who knows and feels.

Such is the spirit which animates the American Summer School in Europe, offered by the Bureau of University Travel of Boston during the coming summer.

Sessions of this school will be held in London, Paris, Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples. The faculty which accompanies this itinerant university is quite equal to the best. It includes Dr. M. Vincent O'Shea, of the University of Wisconsin; Charles Eldred Shelton, president of Simpson College; Prof. Theo. Lyman Wright, of Beloit College; Dr. H. H. Powers, of Boston, late Professor of Economics at Leland Stanford University; Dr. H. F. Willard, of Chicago; Dr. C. L. Babcock, of Berlin.

Courses of lectures will be given in History, Archaeology, Pedagogy, Comparative Literature, Government, Economics, Physiography, Sculpture, Painting, Architecture.

The morning of each day will be devoted to visiting places of interest in small parties of fifteen or twenty persons, under the leadership of an associate member of the faculty. The afternoons and evenings will be at the disposal of the individual with the exception of a lecture hour in the late afternoon or early evening, when lectures will be given by heads of the departments. Complete bibliography and courses of reading for each department will be furnished in printed form to members of the school for their use preliminary or subsequent to the trip, as a preparation for or pursuance of the courses of instruction.

The name "summer school" no doubt misrepresents the real purpose of this enterprise, for its recreative character is not suggested. There is no book, no classroom, no questions, no quizes. It is a summer abroad with all the rest of changing scene and interest without the worry of detail and ennui of mental lassitude.

Such travel is the farthest removed from the confinement of the summer school or institute class-room on the one

hand, and from the restless, purposeless scurrying of traditional travel on the other. It proposes to utilize the play of foreign travel for the ends of scholarship, culture and true recreation.

So feasible a method of reaching the ideal is as startling as it is unique. It will receive from the teaching fraternity at large the patronage which the unanimous endorsement of leading educators deserves.

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