years. They are "A Little Book of Western Verse;" "A Little Book of Profitable Tales," twenty-one prose selections dedicated to his "severest critic" and "most loyal admirer "his eldest daughter, Mary French Field; "Echoes from the Sabine Farm," a series of translations from Horace the poet Field most admired; "Second Book of Verse;" "With Trumpet and Drum," a volume of excerpts from his first two books of verse and from the files of Chicago News, Youth's Companion and Ladies' Home Journal; "The Holy Cross and Other Tales," dedicated to Roswell Martin Field, and originally consisting of eleven prose sketches, to which, in the new editions five additional tales were added; "Love-Songs of Childhood," dedicated to his aunt, Mrs. Belle Angier; "Second Book of Tales," twenty-four prose pastels, sixteen of which were unpublished in bookform at the time of Field's death, the remaining eight being taken from a publication of his known as "Culture's Garden" (1887) and representing the most valuable and interesting of his earlier prose; "The LoveAffairs of a Bibliomaniac," mentioned above; "Songs and Other Verse;" and "The House," an episode in the lives of Reuben Baker, astronomer, and his wife, Alice. It was Field's intention to add a chapter to the last named, but his untimely death left the book incomplete. His publishers, the Scribners, have also issued " "Songs of Childhood," twenty poems set to music, with preface by Reginald de Koven. This includes "The Rocka-by Lady" and "Child and Mother," with music by W. W. Gilchrist; "The Doll's Wooing," by Clayton Johns; "Little Boy Blue," "Japanese Lullaby," "Norse Lullaby," by de Koven; "The Little Peach," by Hubbard Smith; and other poems less widely known, set to

music by Arthur Foote, G. W. Chadwick, Gerrit Smith, C. B. Hawley, Edgar S. Kelley, etc.

Had Eugene Field written "Little Boy Blue" and then laid down his pen forever, the tender chord which he struck in that little nursery tragedy alone would have served to perpetuate and sanctify his name in the hearts of so many child-bereaved parents. Thousands and thousands of mothers whose children, like Little Boy Blue, had kissed their toys and put them away and died found in this poem the perfect echo of their own experience. No wonder, then, that we find "Little Boy Blue" the piece most used by reciters. Then comes that boy-soliloquy so true to life, "Seein' Things," a piece that has sprung into unusual prominence within the last few months. 'fore Christmas," "Wynken, Blynken and Nod," "Our Two Opinions," "Father's Way," "Casey's Table d'Hote," "The Duel," "Child and Mother," "The Rock-a-by Lady," "The Limitations of Youth," and "Singing in God's Acre," divide the honor of preference between them about equally.

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As others that are not so widely used but can be worked up successfully we would suggest "The OakTree and the Ivy," a dainty, quaint, archaic tale of the love and marriage of an oak and an ivy. The former always watches over the latter until he is one day riven by the storm-king's thunderbolt. Then the ivy covers up his wounds with her green leaves and, just as the oak use to tell her strange stories that he had learned from the winds, the clouds and the stars, so the ivy comforted the crippled oaktree with tales of contentment that the crickets, bees, and butterflies told her. "So the old age of the oak was grander than his youth." "The Mountain and the Sea" is another in the same allegorical style and deals. with the amours of the sea, the

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mountain and the air. Two exquisite pathetic Yankee dialect stories are "The Old Man and "The Little Yaller Baby." former tells of a little child whose father always called him "the old man," because he was so solemnlooking. The parents are wrapped up in the child, but he dies of a fever. "The Little Yaller Baby" tells of a sickly little nursling that is hungry and sobs for its mother, but she is in a pine box in the baggage-car. "The Cyclopeedy," in Yankee dialect, humorously recounts the vexations of Leander Hobart, who in 1847 subscribes to an encyclopædia issued periodically. Every time the books are consulted, Leander is referred to a volume not yet published. He looks up "Apples" and is directed to see "Pomology; " to Maternity" for an account of "Babies; " to "Zoology" for "Cows," etc. In 1887 Leander dies, just as the Z issue arrives. The "cyclopeedy" had thus been forty years in being published, and there was another volume yet to come the index. Other interesting studiesare "A Common Sort of Feller," "Our Lady of the Mine," "Booh," "In Paris," "Mr. Billings of Louisville," "In Amsterdam," "The

Conversazzyhony."

Buttercup, poppy, forget-me-notThese three bloomed in a garden-spot, And once, all merry with song and play, A little one heard three voices say:

Shine or shadow, summer or spring-
O thou child with the tangled hair
And laughing eyes-we three shall bring
Each an offering, passing fair!'
The little one did not understand,
But they bent and kissed the dimpled
hand.

"Buttercup gamboled all day long,
Sharing the little one's mirth and song;
Then, stealing along on misty gleams,
Poppy came, bringing the sweetest dreams,

Playing and dreaming-that was all,

Till once the sleeper would not awake; Kissing the little face under the pall,

We thought of the words the third flower spake.

And we found, betimes, in a hallowed spot The solace and peace of forget-me-not.

Buttercup shareth the joy of day,

Glinting with gold the hours of play;
Bringeth the poppy sweet repose,

When the hands would fold and the eyes would close.

And after it all-the play and the sleep
Of a little life-what cometh then ?
To the hearts that ache and the eyes that
weep,

A wee flower bringeth God's peace
again.

Each one serveth its tender lot-
Buttercup, poppy, forget-me-not."

Another admirable poem, of the semi-humorous order, is "Sister's Cake," also from Chicago News:

"I'd not complain of Sister Jane, for she was good and kind,

Combining with rare comeliness distinctive gifts of mind;

Nay, I'll admit it were most fit that, worn by social cares,

She'd crave a change from parlor life to that below the stairs,

And that, eschewing needlework and music, she should take

Herself to the substantial art of manufactur

1. Swing hands sideways, up and over head, touching fingers.

2. Neck firm.

3. Hands up as in No. 1.

4. Hands down, position of attention. Exercise II. Raise arm shoulder high to side, palms of hands up; execute a grinding motion. These exercises should be taken through eight counts. Exercise III.

1. Swing hands shoulder high to front, and draw forcibly back to shoulders. 2. Extend hands shoulder high to sides. 3. Bring hands back to shoulders. 4. Hands down, position of attention. An excellent method of teaching walking is to use the following seven primary exercises: 1. Swaying motions to right and to left, forward and back, with common baste 2. Swaying motions to right and to left, obliquely forward and back, with wide

base.

3. Knee bending

4. Thigh flexing.

5. Leg swinging and foot extension.

6. Thigh swinging.

7. Balance motions, and four count exercises.

A series of exercises designed for growing boys and girls who have no organic defectis: 1. Hips firm, neck firm, arms up and down.

2. Leg work, knee bending, leg flexion. 3. Shoulder blade and arm work; three setting-up exercises for round shoulders. 4. Chest work, for widening and deepening the throax. Arm swinging sideways and upward; arm bending and extension outward and upward; arm raising forward, upward, and lowering backward and downward.

5. Balancing exercises. Thigh swinging forward and back.

6. Waist work. Neck firm, body bending forward, sideways, and backward. Neck firm, body bending forward and in oblique directions; arms up, body bending to right and to left.

7. Heart and lung work. Running in place. Quieting exercises; slow leg work and breathing exercises.

FREE WORK.

Movements for Acute Brain Congestion

and Headache.

Order motions. Hips firm, neck firm, letter Y position.

Leg work, cross standing, and knee bending.

Arm work, arm thrusting out and up; body inclined forward

Head work, neck firm, and backward bend.

Chest work, arm swinging sideways and upward.

Arm work, arm bending, elbow raising, arm outward flinging, arm down, cross standing, wide base, and jerk turning.

Precipitant work, light hopping exercises; stepping exercises; arm flexions and extension upward; arm swinging forward and up; backward and down.

For Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Stomach Trouble, Heart-burn.

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N interesting contribution to this discussion is the following extract from Beethoven's setting of a musical background to Goethe's "Egmont." Here we have the collaboration of Germany's greatest

Poco sostenuto.

poet and greatest composer. The scene depicts Count Egmont, chief of the Netherlanders, on the eve of his execution by order of the Spanish tyrant, the Duke of Alva, and is both a soliloquy and a lullaby.