The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 21, 1900, Page 7

THE SAN EFRANCISCO CALL, Hale’s. CORRIGAN WINS MORE PURSES AT clean ups® | TANFORAN PARK last few days of the | His Horses Now Followed by { the Talent, Which Has Grown Wise. | | Favorites First on Three Occasions. Eonic Beats a Field of Two- Year-Olds—Rosalbra in Front. S sale’ Just four days more of this sale ; in those 4 da; ar days : ys every bit of the J J.. O’Brien’s goods must be sold. here are soms prices that will insure rapld selling : colored velvets, 79c yard 0dds and ends of ths colored velvets from the J. J. O'Brien & Co.’s stock ; well worth $1.50. dress goods fancy chacks, 37 inches wide; J. J. O’Brien & Co.’s price soc, the yard now. fancy colored crepons, 40 inches wide ; J. J. O’Brien & Co.’s price $1.25, the yard wide; J. J. O’Brien Co.’s now ..89: price 85¢c, the yard now.....55¢ men’s wool underwear, 83c on sale to-day for the first time ; men’s wool underwear in both naturai and camel’s-hair colors ; regular $1.00 and $1.25 values. Purses came pretty easy for Corrigan at | Tanforan Park yesterday, his Chimura, Afghan and Joe McGee scoring at very | remunerative odds. The first named | mare, a favorite for the mile and a quar- ter run, won under most fortunate cir- | cumstances. Henry managed to get him- gelf pocketed behind Gotobed, Red Pirate and Lothian in the stretch, with his posi- | tion looking hopeless. Pulling out, he went around the trio and, on pounds the | best horse, won out at the last jump from Gotobed. | After the entriés had closed on Monday thrcugh somebody’s carelessness it was | discovered that Afghan “‘was not in.”” Ha s added, and the chestnut’s victory ermed timely, If not luck; es were laid away, while met with more success. The fancy coverts, so inches wide; J. J. O’Brien & Co.’s price 8s., the yard now 59¢ fancy plaids, 42 inches hosi d attendance was very light;, Henry agaln | rode a brace of winners, Piggott right at sicry and underwear specials i el Wi A Mk mumber fo bt Sreait boy’s bicycle ribbed ladies’ muslin gowns, Ab Stemler's Eon filly Eonic defeated her co: in de ve fashion in the hose, fast black, cotton, two- thread in legs and feet, three- thread in heels, toes and knees, a- knockabout hose for hard wear, sizes 6 to gy, per pal 1 made of a good soft muslin, bias yoke of embroidery Inser- tlon and tucks, ruffle trimmed collars and cuffs, each only...... two-year-old scramble. a 2 to 1 choice, with Piggott up, she | almost_from the start, winning hands down. In a hard drive Merida led Princess Leota out a head for place. A big bunch of twelve started in the | six-furlong sprint following. Mr. Johrson, a strong tip, opened favorite, recading later in the betting to 9 to 2, while Sor- | row closed favorite. Shaw on Rosalbra, a 7 to 1 shot, managed to show first scen after the start and was never headed, beating Monda and Sorrow, the favorite, out in a hard drive. Mr. Johnson ran a close fourth. Going to the pest d About the only starter in the fourth number that received any backing was Corrigan’s Afghan, which was piayed down from 4 to 13 to 5. Mocorito opened favorite, but warmed up so lame that her price went to 13 to 5. Piggott on Afghan | shot to the front and, never headed, was | first at the wire by a length. In a ‘irive | Glover astride High Hoe landed his mount { in_the place half a length before Casdale. Scotch Plaid, a 6 to 5 choice, experienced no dificulty in taking the mile and a six- teenth run, well ridden by Thorpe, Silver Tone stayed surprisingly well, beatinzg Espionage for the place. The winner was 935, 937, 939, 941, 943, 945. 917 Market Strect. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. i | bid up $400 over his selling price by Tim e - b ;.{.\ The last number went to Corrigan’s Joe ALCAZAR THEATER. *TIVOL x| AcAzie THE | CURTAIN CALLS GALORB, “'HOOT MON, | MUST AWA FRA YE!” McGee, which won by a head from Pirate J. Thé favorite, Decoy, finished third To-Day’s Entries. First race—Five furlongs; maiden three-year- olds and upward Elaborate Modern Production. LAST 6 PERFORMANCES i e B g 958 Miss Corb; CAPE NOME Next Week - - - “AUNT JACK” | mACHINERY and SUPPLIES Harry Of the Marveious Co was [} PLOMACY THE 1DOLS EYE! 5e, 25¢ PESERVED 350, 50c. | NAL MATINEE SATURDAY AT 2 —— NEXT WEEK ! o e it The Musical Extravagansza, | e '"QUO VADIS”, V. = “MANILA BOUND I” MATINEE EVERY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY | KR FOR THIS! WATCH FOR THIS! POPULAR PRICES—25¢c and 50c. | TELEPHONE—BUSH 9. in PHONE SOUTH 770. " SAND CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS: and Drake Amalgamators, OGH peration aaily: " 3 30t €aso Iine engine cheap. 9 Stevenson |- st., 8. 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Birch & Co., 183 Because she ™ Magnificently presented by Mrs Edwin ¥.| ot ot 8 Little Meyo's superb company, including the | GOLD SEPARATOR, 4 Wit Mcoahitar Aotor, MARSHALL Gold Saving Machine. 229 Fol- l- d H 8 o MR. BURR McINTOSH. | som_street. Oriental Gas Engine 3 Farce.” | REGULAR SATURDAY MATINEE. | GROCERIES AND PROVIS nve "“ 0 | Monday Night, March %........ PADEREWSKI ; R l;?ciflmimgml;: l;&‘:)\nglB(T)oN?!"m. with J. E on Bale Thursday Morning. DODSON and Original N. Y. Cuast. NEXT MONDAY, | | WILLIE COLLIER 308 Fourth, 1302 Polk and 1441 Stockton, 8. F. OILS. LUBRICATING Ofi_ Crude Ofl and ENSIGN & McGUFFICK, 28 Spear Gasoline. st., B. F. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1900. BT IAT A ATIA AT AT A S A AT AT AR A S S @ ¥ PERHAPS THIS FLAG MAY SUIT THE MAYOR The Call Offers Another Design for a Municipal Banner. HE worthy gentlemen who have been appointed by Mayor Phelan to choose a flag for San Francisco are expected shortly to make their final selection of a design to be submitted to the Board of Supervisors for adoption. It was thought that this foolish scheme would fall by the weight of its own absurdity, but the Mayor's indorsement has given it vitality and it has become serious rather than humorous to the peo- ple of San Francisco. The people of this city already have a flag, and they want no other banner. They have a standard which represents their highest and noblest ideals of natlonal and social life. They have a flag which binds them in a union with a great people. It is the flag which means more than municipal or State life. It has a history and a dignity far surpassing any other emblem in the minds of citizens. : It is the flag of Washington and Lincoln. are taught to revere in their schoolhouses. It floats over every public build- ing in America and is sacred in every American home. It is the flag of the United States—the stars and stripes- and it is the only flag that ought to ap- peal to American citizens. The Call offers it to Mayor Phelan as a deslgn It is the banner which children | new forms of poetry were required. of -the | the chief representatives. THE GOLDEN AGE OF GRECIAN LITERATURE. Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. GOLDEN AGES OF LITERATURE. X. THE ATTIC PERIOD. BY CHARLES FORSTER SMITH, PH.D. The great creative period of epic poetry was practically closed about 800 B. C. With the development of individuality Out Greek genius not epic hexameter created In the elegy an instrument | simply for lament, but which might ex- press philosophic and sententious thoughts, even political wisdom. .Elegiac poetry used the dialect and vocabulary of i the epic in the main, and changed the out- | ward form only by shortening every other line into a practical pentameter. The next step was a greater one. lambic verse was fashioned into an Instrument of satire, and as the verse departed more from the traditional forms so the vecabu- lary became more like that of everyday life. The new form was doubtless of more or less slow growth, but the first great genius to appropriate it is reputed its founder, and the Greeks, grateful for this new literary achievement, halied Archilochus as a benefactor second oniy to Homer. But there were other intimate | and powerful feelings of the soul still seeking literary expression, and the Aeolians of the island of Lesbos created melic, or song proper, in various meters. Passion in all its manifestations, but especially love, was its burden, and Alcaeus, Sappho and Anacreon became its chlef representatives. So far two of the great branches of the Greek race had been chiefly active in the development of poetry—the Ionians in epic, elegiac and iambic poetry, the Aeolians in lyric proper. The Dorlans, too, were developing a form of lyric suit- ed especially to the worship of the gods and to the celebration of athletic victories. These lyrics were to be sung not by in- dividuals, but by carefully trained choirs, efther in procession or with a dance ac companiment. Of this Dorian choral lyric, Stesichorus and Arion in earlier times, Simonides and Pindar in later, were This growth of the new forms of poetry had been co- incident with the era of colonization in Greece. In the eighth century B. C. the ek et S S e e . heart and | separate parts or limbs are, as it were, disjointed—as opposed to the periodic, in which the subotuinate clauses are grouj into more comprehensive periods of just length and proportion ut his is the perfection of a narrative style, and it was a story of stories that Herodotus had to tell. First of all, the general subject was the most thrilling story of Greek an- tiquity, the attempt of the Eastern world to overwhelm the Western, when Greek liberty, political institution: literature and art were all at stake. The proper telling of this great story involved a clear exposition not only of what Greece was and stood for, but of the character and | motives of her assallant. And properly to describe Persia it was necessary to trace the previous history of that great world power. And so Herodotus' narrative became really a history of the world as the Greeks knew for the history of the Persians led back Into that of the Medes; the contact of the Median empire with Egypt made necessary a full account of the country of the Nile; later Persian ex- peditions suggested an account of the Seythians, as also of the Libyan finally there v story of Ionian from Persia, which had prepared the way for the conflict between Persia and Greece. Herodotus was a great traveier, and most of the world which he wrote of | he had himself visited. | years ago listened with | Stanley’s account of the o peoples In Africa can have of the interest with whicn | world received Herodotus' st great countries beyond the sex world loves new stories. Herodot | an_endless supply of such in eonnection with the various peoples of whom he wrote, and these storfes he told In a fash- ion that no historian since ever had the art.to equal. And when he came to tell of Marathon and Thermopylae, Sala- mis and Plataea, even the veterans of | those battles must have felt that the narration was adequate. The whole re- | mains ;mrhaf\s the most interesting his- | tory in any literature. The next great historlan was an Athe- nian of the Athenians. Born about | Thucydides was in his prime when reat conflict broke out between the twa | foremost states of Greece. He was a p | lic_man of great wealth, an aristo.r: and, connected with the family of the | of Marathon, had had the best training | that Athens at her greatest period cotld | furnish. He belonged to the best circies at Athens—doubtless to that of the at | Pericles himself. He had foreseen f | the beginning the significance of this great struggle, and he spent twenty years in | zollecting the mat for history. His conception of history in_many r pects differen: from that of Herodotus. | Perhaps he. had the other in mind when Ihf: Tote: ““Very likely the strictly his- for a flag for San Francisco. His Honor can go further and fare worse in his selection. A few American cities have flags, but they shed no dignity upon the municipalities they represent and they satisfy no need of city Hfe. In some cities they are objects of derision, as in Chicago, where the emblem of the windy city is known as the “liver and lard” flag. Perhaps Mayor Phelan would llke San Francisco to have the flag of the Phelan hat. Flags are needed to distinguish Individuals, tribes and nations. Banners serve no other purpose. No one will say that San Francisco is a nation, and the city has cer- tainly passed the tribal state. No one, except Mayor Phelan perhaps, will say that San Francisco s an individual, and his Honor too frequently :in- AT AR TR AR R R DRk AR SO R TSRO A TR TS AT A TSR SR AT O OR DA O ARk o | torical character of my narrative may be disappointing. But if he who desires to ve before his eyes a true picture of the events which have happened, ard of the like events which may be expected to hap- | pen hereafter in the order of human | things, shall pronounce what 1 have writ- | ten to'be useful, then I shall be satisfed. My history is an everiasting possession, | not a prize composition which is heard | and forgotten.” He regarded the great struggle between Athens and Sparta, which lasted twenty-seven years (4l-14), along without a banner. a new competition be started. B e N e e e O AU RT YT YD RSRI TSR R OR RO R R R R R Jazabel 108) 598 Ililouette 928 Giocoso 104 ... Sarsfield 631 Regin'd Hughes. 99/ 539 Palatine 968 Red Cherry..... 102 Second race—Mile and a sixteenth; three-year- olds; selling: 950 The Lady. (843) Limerick 111) 917 Tekla 108 107! 889 Sam Dan’baum.105 Third race—Five and a half furlongs; three- year-olds and upward; purse: (861)Frank Bell 116} 935 Afamada . (913) Bendoran 123} 9439 Sardine . 942 Vioris ... 102| 946 Si Fourth race—One mile; four-year-olds and up- ward; selling: 692 Opponent 985 Merry Boy. Fifth race—Four and a half furlongs; two- year-olds; sellini . 102 947 Moonbright 106 962 Casdale 106 (955)Daisy F. 102 07 trad 102 (’Mn't)l};\e:;m.! : 107| 941 Gavlon Brown...102 929 Bllly Liyons. 106/ 953 Countess Clara..102 Bixth race—Seven furlongs; three-year-olds 110] 818 Antioch Gn §21 Acrobat . 836 Fashion Pl 94 Rey Hooke: Selections for To-Day. First race—Sarsfleld, Miss Boak, Uterp. Second race—The Lady, Limerick, ‘Tekla. Third race—Bendoran, Sardine, Sly. Fourth race—Daisy F, Opponent, Merry Boy. Fifth race—Bernota, Intrada, Countess Clara. Sixth race—Jim McGibben, Imp. Clonsilla, Major Hooker. In his own Farce Comedy, “MR. SMOOTH _PLATES FOR SAVING GOLD. Schaezlein & Burridge. 3 Harflle place, off Kearny, between Sutter and Bush streets. OPERA ist, assisted by Chas. ach ot dolin | ¥~ W BELL, Central Plating Works, 852 M Bher- I~ gion Phone Jessie 361, HOUSE k) evening, ROCKE=RS. . Tlok- Hula-Hula Rocker; Centrifugal ROCKERS E.03 Flmpe: Machinery. PARKE & LACY CO., 21 Fremont PORTABLE HOUSES. BURNHAM-STANDEFORD CO., Washingt and 1st sts., Oakland, or Bullders' Ex., 5. PILE.DRIVING ENGINES. LAST THREP WEEKS OF THE SEASON. ALL THIS WEEK. The Immensely Successful Revival of Offen- back’'s Famous Comic Opera, The Grand| | used, | manutactured by Stew. | art er, ers of Btewart Banjos and George Bauer Guitars | % Worthington Steam Pumps & Water Meters, Duchess. g7 Sandoline SHER” | Worthiostan Seam Fumps & Water Meters Pacific Coast Agents. ENGINES, BOILERS. ETC. BAKER & HAMILTON, Enflm and Botlers; lo ine & Davis sts. west prices on the coast. TENTS AND COVERS. NEVILLE & CO.. manufacturers, bags, tents, covers. 31 and i3 California st. NEXT WEEK—"EL CAPITAN." TELEPHONE—MAIN 5 USUAL POPULAR PRICES. Good Reserved Beat in Orchestrs Saturday Matinee 2c Branch Ticket Office—Emporium. | WESTERN TURF ASSOCIATION. TANFORAN PARK. | FIFTH MEETING, Mch. 12 to 24, inclusive. | Six high-class running races every week day, | EDDY ST, IA s _ | raip or shine, beginning at 1:30 p. m. OL COR. MASON | The liesl winter racetrack of America. Pa- trons step directly from the railroad cars into NINETEEN HUNDRED Cleveland HE ONLY FREE VAUDEVILLE SHOW IN THE CITY & superb grand stand, glass-inclosed, where, comfortably housed in bad weather, they can | enjoy an unobstructed view of the races. rainé leave Third and Townsend streets at | + + 0 d 12:15, 12:85, 12:60 | THE OLYMPIA MYSTERY. 9:00, 30:40 and 11:30 a. m. an , 12:85, 12:50 and 1:25 p. m. returnii Immediatel; ar A W BICYCLES. THE GRE A served for women and their escorts. No smok- MOST _POPULAR ||IL Valencia etreet, 10 minutes later. # IN DEMAND... THE LADY WITH THE VBLVBET | n Jose and Way Stations—Arrive at San MASK | nr:n:‘zl 12:45 p. m. Leave San Bruno at 4:00 No. 83, a perfect road wheel, e - nd 4- m. + “RATES Sun Francisco to Tanforan and re- | $40. Do all to hear the San Francisco societyy turn, including ld;nrltvli'mutonlrlfik, $1.25. | G ady with the arvelous voice ‘of the . 3. MA . President. | . 84, & twenty-pound racer, B | ¥. H. GREEN, Secretary and Manager. | i S % entury e — v $50. MATINE® E’u:‘lfl\Y BUNDAY. FISCHER’'S No. 9, Cleveland Chainless, AMATBUR NIGHT FRIDAY. NEW CONCERT - HOUSE, $785. 122-124 O'FARRELL STREET. E. A FISCHER.. GEORGE MOOSER The Handsomest Mus mer! CHUTES AND ZOO,‘:flm jHL‘xnm;ns TURNED rv\ Y x‘mux’x.v, A Quartet of Celebrities in the Fourth Act LEAVITT & BILL, 309 Larkin st., 8. F. ADMISSION FREB : y =5 % | from *TI Trovatore”: Hinrichs' challenge cr- 20 San Pablo ave., Oakland. HOMALG BROTHERS MARION BLAKE: | chestra ADMISBION ifc. Strictly first-class. : HOWE, BOGGE & HAEWOOD, MLLE, E8- | Cafe unsu | TELLE, THE BLACK BARTONS. 100T MON and the AMATEURS TO-MORROW NIGHT. Reserve Se: Phone Park 3. “STUDENTS’ LECTURE COURSE.” FIRST LECTURE, March 22, § p. m., Y. M. C A Auditorium. PROFESSOR THOMAS RUTHERFORD BACON, ““The Boer and the riton. _AGmission 80 cents. Tickets at s shepaan HAY FEVER T ASTHMA .. Oppression, Sucation, Neuralga, e, cared by | ESPIC’S CIGARETTES, or POWDER Parls, J. BSPIC; New York, E. FOUGERA & 00. SOLD RY ALl DRUGGISTA. . The lecture will be well illus: ':v(ffx:‘ views and no admission will be | chargead. (Racing Chart on Page Eleven). S——= WELBURN’S BONDSMEN ASKED TO “SETTLE UP” | The case of the United States against Stanley Willey and Henry Farmer, sure- ties on the bonds of O. M. Welburn, as disbursipg officer in the internal revenue service, was placed on trial before a Jury Yesterday In the United States Circuit Court,” Judge Morrow presiding. United States Attorney Coombs and Assistant Tnited States Atttorney Woodworth ap- ared on behalf of the Government and geiwln McNab and Frank H. Gould for en. “’n‘a.‘?}‘r"f.' '%Vlllay and Farmer were sure- ties for $15,000. The amount of the al- leged defalcation as disbursing agent Is stated in the complaint as $16,000, includ- interest. . mgo:xnr:sel for the Government contended that all it was necessary for them to rove was that Welburn was a disburs- ng officer of the United States at the times mentioned in the complaint, that the sureties named went on his bond for $15,- 000 and that Welburn left the office short in his accounts. It did not matter, they argued, whether the shortage was caused by peculations of Welburn or others, or whether Welburn did or did not know that there were shortages. His bondsmen were responsible in any event. The evidenee of the alleged shortage was embodied in a transcript prepared by Special Revenue Agent Thrasher. This was ruled out on the objection of the at- torneys for the bondsmen and Judge Mor- row ruled that the fact of the defalcation must be established by the testimony of witnesses. The case accordingly went s morning. °"x':§|‘z’§‘$’ 's'&'«e. Attom¥ Coombs sald after the adjournment of the court that most important witnesses for :x':': &{v:hr:xmont were dead and that their case would be hampered by reason of that fact. Anyvo Theatrical Cold Cream provents early wrinkles. Sold by all druggists. * —_————————— z Dickie Will Lecture. George W. Dickle, manager of the Union Iron Works, ;’hlll deliver his lecture, “The Man and the ,"*_to-morrow evening at Man e Wnited Prosbyterian = Chusch. corner of Golden Gate avenue and P:lg e ém whisky is & curse—the Old Governmant is a blessing 4 Aulges a habit of introspection to make his judgment valuable. For what reason, then, does San Francisco need a flag? The heads of gov- ernments, such as an Emperor, a King, a President or a Sultan, have per- sonal flags; but Mayor Phelan is certainly none of these and Why not let us have the stars change the conditions of the contest? tions for a municipal yell such as they have in colleges We need a yell more than we do a flag. would open their sessions with an officlal yell great dignity and impressive- ness would be given to the proceedings. Other departments could do the same and his Honor the Mayor could have a yell of his own. slightest question that he has often felt the need of one, and much would be gained by giving it an official character. can worry and stripes "and Let the Mayor advertise for sugges- and univerdities. If the Supervisors, for example, There isn't the The Call suggests therefore that TALE BEARERS MAKE TROUBLE FOR PAINTERS Chris Jorgensen Cheerfully Accepts Decision Relat- ing to Water Colors. —_—— Stanton’s Panel Entitled “Evening” Was Not Rejected by the Jury of the Spring Exhibition of the Art Association. el e The San Francisco Art Assoclation an- nounces with pleasure that the spring ex- hibition of works by California artists in- augurating the recently completed Mary Frances Searles Art Gallery will open to the public on Friday, March 23. The mem- bers of the assoclation are invited to a private view and reception on Thursday evening. The number of plctures sub- mitted for acceptance greatly exceeded the original estimate of the management. ‘When notice was sent out inviting every artist to submit ten samples of work the management must have fancied that many of the painters would not respond with more than one or two pictures each. 8o many pictures, however, were sent to the institute that 100 have been excluded for want of wall space. The jury also rejected 150 examples on thé ground that the work was not up to the standard. There is an obvious des! in a certain quarter to provoke dissension and trouble among the artists and to involve the Art Assoclation in an ugly squabble with the painters. A paragraph in yesterday's Call, wherein it was announced that Chris Jor- gensen had withdrawn his water-colors, was quickly twisted around to make it appear to the public that Mr. Jorgensen had been shabbily treated. The facts in the case are exactly as The Call stated. Mr. Jorgensen was not aggrieved by the decision of the committee. He m: no complaint to any one. He aid not solicit an interview and was not interviewed, as reported. When he ascertained that a Tuling had been made that no water- colors would be exhibited in the main gal- lery he courteously requested and was flven permission to withdraw his work. e was dlsnfipolnlefl. of course, that his pictures could not have the u;kl.n which the new gallery afforded, but he recog- nized the fairness of the ruling and e no complaint and manifested no displeas- ure. Some of the talebearers at the institut are spreading a rumor that a large panel painted by John Stanton for the new jinks room of the Bohemian Club was rejected by’ the committee appointed to pass upon the picture presented for the ugrlng exhi- bition of the Art Association. It was Mr. Stanton’s original purpose to exhibit the panel, entitl E\'enln{. at the institute, and permission was obtained to withdraw the picture from the club, but when the demand for space in the new gall be- came so pressing Robert Howe Fletcher, curator of - the institute, advised Mr. Stanton that the panel could not be placed in proper light without excluding other fctures which had been accepted. Mr. tanton thereupon.readily announced tha# he would not take the space from other exhibitors. By mistake and without the knowledge of Mr. Stanton the panel was sent from the club to the Institute, and as it was not placed in the new gallery the venders of gossip immediately jumped to the surmise that committee had “turned down Stanton.” Partfes intending to visit Cape Nome should not fail to ‘gm\'lde themselves wu'= lankef as are indis) e o e north. H. Liebes & Co. rlers, 133-137 Post street, can furnish the best in that line at lowest prices. * @K KR KD R DD, R DA R OHD R DRDH DD K OETHD K HD R OEDT K DHD YO YD YR DR THD ROHHD KR RN K 1 | 0«0—&0’0-‘0 @ | peace and SovkeaEmC |} [ e et e e ] chief tribes sent colonies to all parts of the Mediterranean and tke adjacent coasts and soon all the mainland on both sides of the Aegean, as well as the islands, had joined in the general chorus of song. The three chief tribes all bore their part in this lyric development, which lasted some 250 years. But Athens, which was R e e e SR S S S S SR S S S Y to be the center of the golden age of Greek literature, had, so far, lakng a Even relatively unimportant part in it. Sparta had shown during the seventh cen- tury a remarkable tendency to foster let- ters. This enlightened polley, so at vari- ance with her usual attitude, was prob- ably encouraged by Delphi, and though not herself productive in literary lines Sparta became a great center of talent from other Greek States. Tyrtaeus, Ter- pander, Thaletas, Alcman, Polymnestus and others form a remarkable group of ts and musiclans, who must eventual- y have revolutionized Sparta’s _attitude toward letters if such enlsghlened patron- age had continued. But changed completely, doubtless because the authorities wished definitely to stamp out | a spirit so at variance with the funda- | mental tenets of Spartan discipline, which taught that the citizen belonged to the state, that obedlence was his first duty, to become a soldier the object and end of his existence. Sparta’s renunciation of possible leader- ship in letters left the way clear for Ath- ens, which had been the siowest of all the great Greek states to come forward and play her role in literature. No at enic oet had been an Athenian. and in all ih yric period only Solon had attained first rank, and even he was far greater dovht- less as statesman and patron of letters than as poet. But now her time had come. The expulsion of the tyrants in the latter part of the sixth century. and more especially the brilliant leadership of Ath- ens in repelling the Persian invasions early in the fifth century, turned all eyes upon her. lition makes identical the birth year of Themistocles, the founder of Athenian naval greatness, and of Aeschy- lus, the father of the Athenian drama. Under the one Athens was to become tem- porary mistress of the seas; following the lines marked out by the otner she was to win the hegemony, perhaps for all time, in letters and art. With the return of with enormously Increased wealth and power and influence, Ath=ns set to work under wise leaders to make herself the real capital of Greece. Wealthv public men vied with the state in the en- couragement of art and letters. Not only was native talent encouraged and reward- ed, but from all parts of the Hellenie world men of genius were drawn to the Attic capital by the stimulus which coines from contact with the best minds, and by the rich pecuniary rewards and still richer compensation in fame which fell to ex- ceptional merit. Tt was not that Athens struck out new lines in literature. There was nothing distinctly new to be done. Her task was to ger!eet in many lnes the beginnings that had already been made. If she might be sald to have created any new form it would perhaps be the drama; but even here she rather borrowed an rfected what the Dorians had invented. Bhe unique thing was that whereas else- where Princes had patronized art and let- fers, as in the case of Polycrates of Samos, the Alsuadae of Thessaly, Hiero in Sicily, and even at Athens the Pisfs- tratidae, now a whole people of Athens became encouragers and promoters of men of genius. It may be doubted If great Tajent has ever anywhere eise found so stimulating an atmosphere as that of the ‘Athenian demos in the fifth century B. C. The first great literary achievement 1( Athens was the drama. The rule stiil held that ?oe!ry developed before prose. The suitable medium for the other great branches of literary composition was still %o be perfected, since history, philosophy and oratory could not be uately ex- ?resud except In prose. e Tonlan I hers,” or narrators in prose, had made beginni in history. but these were crude. ecataeus of Miletus and Hellanicus of Mitylene were clearly as inferior to Herodotus in their concep- tion. of history as in the style me{.mm' manded. The “father of history” belongs enureryo the fifth century, and, though from licarnassus. in Asla Minor, and using the Tonian dialect, owed much to Athenian influence. At any rate, it was Herodotus who fashioned history into a new artistic form, and the Tonic dialect which he u-etd vu: doubtle!; not g‘:l‘l(‘e the same as spoken anywhere, ash- ioned lvrm%ll 8 o a_distinetly literary form. style was called by the Greek critics the running style—where the parta’s attitude | “the greatest ever known” down to that time, and he considered it his duty not simply to narrate the events of the war, but. to set fortn the causes which led up to these, and so he became the first philo- ied sophic historiaa. He d before his great work was completed, iug his account broken off at i1l B. C.; but even thus sums of the chief of succeeding historians have pronounced him the greatest historian of the world. The Earl of Chatham calied the work “the eternal manual of states- | men,” and directed that it shouid oe the first’ book which his son, Wiliam Pitt, should read after entering the university. Macaulay put the seventh book above even the “De Corona™ of Demosthenes, as the “ne xlus uitra of human composi- tion,” and Pericles’ great funeral oration in book two may well be expected to kebp its rank as one of the greatest oratarical compositions in all literature. One passags of this oration may properly be gquoted here as setting forth in the words of him who did most to create the Athens of tha fifth century, the spirit that animated the city and people of Athens at the acme of the Attic period: “I say that Athens is the school of Hellas, and that the individual Athenian in his own person seems to hava | the power of adapting himself to the most varied forms of action with the utmost versatility and grace. This is no passing | and idle word, but truth and fact; ana the assertion Is verified by the position to which these qualities have raised the state. For In the hour of trial Athens alone among her contemporaries is supe- rior to the repoft of her. No enemy who comes against her is indignant at the re- verses which he sustains at the hands of such a city; no subject complains that his masters are unworthy of him. And we shaill assuredly not be without witnesases; there are mighty monuments of our power which will make us the wonder of this and of succeeding ages. We shall not need the praises of Homer or of any other panegyrist whose Wtrz may please for the moment, al!hou%h is representation of the facts will not bear the light of day. For we have compelled every d and every sea to opea a path for our valor, | and have everywhere planted sternal me | morials of our friendship and of our en- mity."” 3 Thucydides’ history was completed by Xenophon in his Hellenica; but Xenophon, however delightful his account of the ex- pedition of the ten thousand with Cyrus the younger, and however interesting his %ml’-hlnoflcal romance of Cyrus the elder, was no historian. He was a great writer, but not the legitimate successor of Herodotus and Thuc; The works of later historians of this lod, such as Ephorus and Theopomp: @ been Far more than the innings of phil- osophy had been made the od, especially I ttio : used by Pherecydes ose had been recy of Syros, Anaximander nng Anaximenes o‘ Miletus, Heraclitus of Ephesus and oth- ers, but Tonic {vrose was not i“ an ade- quate vehicle for philosophv. Xemophanes of Colophon, Parmenides of Elea and Em- pedocles of Agrigentum chose verse as the medium of their philosophy, but the true form for philosophy Is not verse, but The great work was to be done by the Athentans. The to the philosophy by locnl_;-h. who was with feft nothing In writing, ciple, Plato, became of his doctrines. But t to a te study, as count of Athenian arntor{. the fift] cenmwhm Its resentatives in icles, who in writing, and I Antiphon, fifteen speeches are ex: grea it e s fln the ac- e teat rq;-h eft no g3 istic prose was grea :he A&Ic period in the forms of literature. The medium which it thus is per- haps still unexcelled, as found in the per- fected s of Thucydides, in the prin. ctpal uo,ue‘ of Plato, in s hes of Demosthenes. The clearness of perception and the native intellectual vigor of the Athenians, as well as the nat- ural excellence of the Attic dlalect, fitted them especially for the hest attain- ments in prose lterature. it as poetry been essentially oral—that ls, composed to be recited or s rather than read—so the excellencies of the best prose literature were due in meas- ure to the same cause. —_———— COURSES OF INSTRUCTION. Spring Term, 1800. Mondays—American Political Par- ties. Tuesdays — Twenty Lessons in French Conversation and Recent Sei- entific Discoveries. Wednesdays and Thursdays — Golden Ages of Literature. Fridays — Photography for Ama- teurs. Saturdays — Biographical Studies for Girls. These courses will continue until June 7, 1900. Examinations will be held at their close as a basis for the granting of certificates.