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...score on Cooper, Sylvester Judd and Brockden Brown, or to discuss the works of Paulding, Poe, Prescott, Motley, Park man, and the rest, but who, for lack of familiarity with Scott, must fail in his examination? Is Scott, then, the one writer of fiction whose works an American boy should read? Is there nothing in American literature that should command his attention? Is it your purpose to teach him that Hawthorne, Irving, Bryant, Longfellow, Holmes, Emerson and Lowell are of minor consequence in comparison with Goldsmith and Scott? Shakespeare is a matter of course, and Milton ought to be, though...
...said that Josef Hoffman, the boy pianist, has been ill-treated by his managers, and steps are being taken to investigate the case...
This afternoon occurs the last appearance in Music Hall of the boy pianist Hofmann...
...secretary is in receipt of applications for, 1st, a tutor to go to California at once, for five months; pay good. Applicant must be thoroughly competent to fit a boy for present requirements. Second, an instructor in Latin at a New England academy, to serve for a few weeks as substitute, beginning at once. Third, for an experienced teacher of English, to go to a California fitting school in August. Fourth, for one of equal capacity as regards French and German, also for August...
...first requisite for success is a habit of self-discipline. Boys, or rather young men, of eighteen, who have never been thrown on their own resources, whose hours have been mapped out for them, whose coming and going has been regulated by authority, whose clothes have been bought, whose books and companions have been chosen, or who have been in the seclusion of careful boarding-schools, are suddenly thrown into freedom, entirely unprotected, can choose everything from companions to studies and at the same time have to meet temptations new in kind and in degree. Having had no command...