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      / Jt 9 Mrk Twain" Has Done Good Service ...

      / Jt 9 MRK TWAIN" has done good service to , Education by his article ' English as she

      is Taught . ' On looking at his pages one is at first inclined to things : the whole affair , a huge

      joke on the part of the arch-humourist who did not hesitate to declare that his fac ^ s were

      invented by himself . Not ^ a few of the statements now advanced arouse a suspicion of the

      exercise of versatile ingenuity in tjie art of tapping the laughing vein of the public . Be

      that as it may , fun or no fun , Mark Twain's article again throws light upon the evils of , the

      cramming system now in vogue in English as Well as American schools .

      This cramming is especially noticeable in the study of literature . In England the

      custom has not reached the same advanced stage that America can" show , but it is steadily

      moving onwards . American children , being much more precocious than the young folk of

      England , are usually crammed with a store of general names—not knowledge— -which

      astounds the English visitor . The study of literature in England does not embrace the

      productions of the world . It is peculiarly insular in its ramifications , just in the same

      way as our teaching in history and geography is invariably strongly associated with tfye British

      people and the British Empire , onej of the favourite ideas of educationists being that

      initial instruction should deal with our own people and our own land .

      Provided Mark Twain ' s remarks are accep mted as a credible account of the condition

      of the education of the young in America , the subject calls for more attention than has

      hitherto been bestowed upon it . The lesson , too , is one that should not be overlooked in

      this country j where the practice of cramming the infant mind is visibly extending . We do not

      think , however , that it has reached the pitch of ludicrousness which is shown by the American

      examples given by Mark Twain . Assuredly pur friends on the other side can truly say 3 ¦ i . .

      that they * lick creation' in this , as in some II

      other respects . We give a few instances ^— of I : replies 4 The to questions House of on the literary Seven ^ natters Gables * was I

      written by Lord Bryant . I Edgar A . Foe was a very curdling writer . 1

      Cotrfcon Mather was a writer who invented I the cotton gin and wrote histories ¦ ¦ * I

      Beowulf wrote the Scri « ptures . ^ I Ben J- » t * iX Jonson VUUOUU DUXyXVCU survived Shakspeare KJJ . M . OiXL . O ^ % ^ CLX ¦ G in XXX some OVJJ-UC I

      respects . - " I In the Canterbury Tale it gives account I

      of King Alfred on his way to the shrine of I Thomas Bucket . I

      Chaucer was succeeded by EE . Wads . Long- I fellow an American Writer * - His writings I

      were chiefly prose and nearly one hundred I years elapsed . _ I

      Shakspere translated the Scriptures and it I was called St . James because he did it . I

      Gibbon wrote a history of his travels in I Italy . This was original / 1

      George Eliot left a wife and children who ii I mourned greatly for his genius .

      George Eliot Miss Mary Evans Mrs . Cross Mrs . Lewis was the greatest female poet unless

      George Sands ia made an exception of . I Sir Walter Scott Charles Bronte Alfred the

      Great and Johnson were the first great novelists .

      Thomas Babington Makorlay graduated at ] Harvard and then studied law , he was raised

      to 1776 the peerage . \ as baron in 1557 and died in

      Homer ' s writings T are Homer's Essays Virgil the Aneid and Paradise lost ( some people say *

      that these poems were not written by Homer but by another man of tfy © same name .

      A sort of sadness kind of shone in Bryant ' s poems .

      Holmes is a very profligate and amusing writer .

      i These replies are equalled in -comic absurdity by the replies given in other branches

      of learning . And yet it is curious to notice ' ' • "¦ '¦' ¦ ¦ ¦ \ ¦ - 'i - " ! " ' '¦ " \ Tel .. ¦ . ^ m

  • Citation
    • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), April 15, 1887, page 382, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_15041887/page/4/