Some peculiarities of Shelley\u27s rhythm.

The most striking quality of Shelley\u27s poetry meets our attention once, in the play of ever-changing emotion through his lines. When he called himself A pard-like Spirit beautiful and swift, he characterized the spirit of his poetry, with its ever-shifting imagery, and its pulsing, leaping rhythms continually falling into new and unexpected adjustments of difficult stresses, but always resolving themselves into a wonderful coherency of thought and form which produces the effect of strange and beautiful music. He builds up large rhythm-forms in what we may call the phrasing of his lines, using the term in a musical sense, and over these large waves play the verse-waves in a vast variety of subtle adjustments. As striking an illustration as we could find of this, lies in that magnificently descriptive line from Alastor – Of wave ruining on wave, and Blast on blast. 327

The school garden from an educational view point.

School gardens are not intended to create gardeners or farmers but to afford the growing boy or girl an opportunity for many aided developments. In the school garden the children are taught by one who can inspire them with a love not only for plants, but for everything else that has life and grows to take care of trees, lawns, flowers, vegetables and such things planted with their own hands. It is a place where the plants together with their friends and enemies have an intimate relation to the child personally; where the lessons are far more vital than anything he can get from books, where the child learns the wonderful story of the plant, the life in the seed, the function of root, leaf, stem, flowers and seed by the closest scrutiny of which he is capable

Our rivals : The molds, yeasts and bacteria.

In this day when the erstwhile plebian hog has taken to scaling the social ladder and has climbed beyond the ken of many an honest workman, it behooves the housewife to wage, with double zeal the warfare on our rivals, the molds, yeasts and bacteria who come as unbidden guests eating the very food that we must have, raising enormous families at our expense, frequently making themselves obnoxious as long as the food lasts, then quietly withdrawing into themselves and either waiting for a fresh supply of food or allowing the housewife to start them by the dust-brush route to a new larder

The early missionary work of the French Jesuits in North America.

There are perhaps but few passages in history that are more striking than those which tell of heroic efforts of the early French Jesuits to convert the Indians of North America. Many of these efforts are full of dramatic and philosophic interest, and they also bear strongly upon the political destinies of America. While the small young colonies of England still clung feebly to the shores of the Atlantic, events, almost wholly unknown to them, that would eventually have great bearing upon their future, were in progress in the very heart of the continent, the main participants being the French Jesuits and the Red Indians of North America

Stress of romance words in Chaucer\u27s prologue to The Knight\u27s Tale.

The effect of the Norman-French Conquest on the vocabulary of the English language was profound. Prior to the Twelfth Century the language contained but few word forms foreign to the Old English. The vocabulary of the Eleventh Century contained about thirty words of French origin and these must have come into the language previous to the conquest

Bacteria in relation to every day life.

It is to be noticed that if there be any marshy places, certain animals breed there, which are invisible to the eye and yet getting into the system through the mouth and nostrils cause serious disorders. This quaint observation is taken from a manuscript written over two thousand years ago, showing that bacteria even if not seen, were living and active. Latin writers of about the same time recorded a relation between insects and malaria which has but lately been proved and explained. The infectious character of leprosy has long been recognized, since the ancient Hebrews caused the isolation of the afflicted. The laws of Moses point to some knowledge of the nature of infections: This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent; all that come into the tent, and all that is in the tent shall be unclean for several days. And every open vessel which has no covering upon it shall be unclean