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T. D. Whitney Company Temple Place-West St., Boston

Sargent's Handbook Series

AMERICAN PRIVATE SCHOOLS, 1917

Third Edition, revised and enlarged, new features

A Guidebook for Parents

A Compendium for Educators A critical and discriminating account of the Private Schools as they are, written without fear or favor.

Indispensable for Parents, Educators, College Officials interested in Secondary

Education.

New Introductory Chapters: "Educational Advance in 1916"; "Education Literature of 1916"; "Measuring Intelligence," by Prof. R. M. Yerkes of Harvard University: "Choosing a Camp," by Morton Snyder of Newark Academy; "Vocational Guidance," by F. C. Woodman of Morristown School.

672 pages, round corners, crimson silk cloth, gold stamped, $2.50

A HANDBOOK OF NEW ENGLAND

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Descriptive of Town and Country along the Routes of Automobile Travel. Humanized Baedeker, a Year Book, a Gazetteer, a Guide Book. The only book that presents New England as a whole.

Introductory Chapters on Geology, Flora, Architecture, etc. Directories and Appendices. New 1917 Edition, enlarged and improved.

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900 pages, with Illustrations and Maps. Round corners, crimson silk cloth, gold Stamped, $2.50. Limp crimson leather, $3.00.

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A LOST LAND.

(TO GERMANY.)

A childhood land of mountain ways,
Where earthly gnomes and forest fays,
Kind foolish giants, gentle bears,
Sport with the peasant as he fares
Affrighted through the forest glades,
And lead sweet wistful little maids
Lost in the woods, forlorn, alone,
To princely lovers and a throne.

Dear haunted land of gorge and glen, Ah me! the dreams, the dreams of men!

A learned land of wise old books
And men with meditative looks,
Who move in quaint red-gabled towns
And sit in gravely-folded gowns,
Divining in deep-laden speech
The world's supreme arcana-each
A homely god to listening Youth
Eager to tear the veil of Truth;

Mild votaries of book and pen
Alas, the dreams, the dreams of men!

A music land, whose life is wrought
In movements of melodious thought;
In symphony, great wave on wave-
Or fugue, elusive, swift, and grave;
A singing land, whose lyric rhymes
Float on the air like village chimes:
Music and Verse the deepest part
Of a whole nation's thinking heart!

Oh, land of Now, oh, land of Then! Dear God! the dreams, the dreams of men!

Slave nation in a land of hate,

Where are the things that made you great?

Child-hearted once-oh, deep defiled,
Dare you look now upon a child?
Your lore a hideous mask wherein
Self-worship hides its monstrous sin:
Music and verse, divinely wed-
How can these live where love is dead?

Oh, depths beneath sweet human ken,
God help the dreams, the dreams of
men!
Punch.

TRUTH.

I have risen to being from depths of a wonder divine,

As

a star of the midnight gold dreaming if light were to shine From the stillness, the blueness of heav'n as the uttermost sign Of God's love, 'twould be hers to steal darkness gray footed away:

I have seen in the blushing of sunlight at break of the day When the dew lingers radiant to welcome dawn's passionate ray, Thro' the purple of mountains, blue depths of the infinite sea,

In the calm of cool evenings when joy and the wonder-to be

Fill a silence and twilight with heav'n, that God's love to be free

In a world that I found, peopled, live in alone with my dreams, Is to find His own purpose, steer true 'mid the mist of what seems Till I see the white radiance of truth: think no wrong what He deems In eternity's wisdom the best: show the gates of His world To the wanderers in mists of the desert -how gloom is impearled With rejoicing, and sorrow with singing, how darkness is hurled From the gold-dazzling whiteness of

love: bid them bow to His will, See His face in the beauty of earth, hear His voice and be stillWhen the silence of midnight is silence no longer: to fill For our hearts every sound of the morning with music of heav'n, Go through life with a song, die re

joicing that first to have striven For His light, was to find and give back what His wisdom had given.

So in love's passion strength forward! Joyful, unchained, unoppressed,

Through the chill of this terror come home to the warmth of His breast,

Sinking downward at last in the ocean of Infinite Rest!

The Poetry Review.

Rupert Buxton.

THE NATURALIZED AMERICAN.

Recent events have brought into sharp relief the difference in angle from which naturalization is regarded by Americans and Europeans. "Naturalization implies the renunciation of a former nationality, and the fact of entrance into a similar relation towards a new body politic." This is Woolsey's definition of naturalization in his Introduction to International Law and it was Bacon in Kingdoms and Estates who said: "All states liberal of naturalization towards strangers are fit for Empire." The legal definition of the word "naturalization" is "the act of receiving an alien into the condition and investing him with the rights and privileges of a natural subject or citizen." It was an astute Attorney General of the United Kingdom who stated in Parliament since the war began that it was beyond the power of any government arbitrarily to restore a previous citizenship to a man who had been accepted into a new allegiance through a legal process of naturalization.

Within these brief statements of law, definition, and fact, all of purely British origin, is contained the American attitude towards the naturalized citizen and his descendants. It is not only the American legal position, but it is the point of view held by the American Government in its treatment of adopted citizens and it expresses the mental habit of the American people in their conception of nationality. In England the legal position is the same, actually before 1914 and theoretically since that time, for the administration of military and defense of the Realm regulations has brought into effect certain differences in the treatment of natural and naturalized citizens, tending to modify the full force or meaning of the

Naturalization Act. It cannot be said, however, that the mental attitude of the people of England towards a naturalized alien has ever been quite in harmony with the full purport of the law. Conservatism, insularity and racial prejudice have led to conscious or unconscious discrimination between English and foreign born. A "foreigner" still remained more or less an outsider even after naturalization. In some cases this discrimination amounted to a violent prejudice, in others to toleration, kindly or indifferent, and with many it was merely a subconscious state manifesting itself but rarely, though unwittingly coloring thought and opinion to a degree depending largely upon the mentality of the individual. Speaking quite generally, this conscious or unconscious discrimination, or, in other words, this dividing of humanity into two classes, native born and foreign, does not exist in America. It is from this difference in mental attitude that arises the very great difference in the American and the English popular conception of naturalization notwithstanding the fact that the laws of the two countries cover much the same ground, the English being stricter if anything than the American.

The American assumes the loyalty of a citizen, native born or naturalized, until it is proved defective. Found disloyal, the naturalized American is looked upon by his fellow citizens as a traitor and not as an enemy alien. The popular English point of view is apparently quite different, for the naturalized person has always been looked upon as an alien and if disloyal to England has become at once an alien enemy, and under present war conditions is in some ways treated as such rather than as a renegade citizen.

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