Show EDUCATING THE PEOPLE tho the Chati 1111 has done dolle and is doing much work among aclan a aims of people who othe otherwise would not study lilly any regular conrao it is of course a bergous on tile textbooks of this dils that they are often hu acu and not one sided tins this can call hardly lt be prevented as tile tho books aro are written ii hur ricilly by busy men inell who have not time to lo do thoroughly other movements cuts like college and university extensions and settle settlements meritEr itic C or ir less 1 c 99 subject to the same general vs viz that flidr work ia n cud acial the bame might ba tia said of many schools aud and col A more recent ino movement the hersity verity association is extending its work in various towns aud and uses a monthly lung magazine azille through which to impart its ita tho the editors have accomplished the ho remarkable feat of giving the history of some nine ancient nations nation antho in the brief compass of 44 pages I 1 it hlll bo be lu in order duct for songe enterprising firm birin to issue a vest pocket edition of an of universal Inow knowledge led c tho the erudite author of the small sam pio PIC of egyptian history gives civra tile the remotest ditc of the ancient eaphe as E D 0 shades of ct naville kaville and our conr author being a bishop at one raises our suspicions that lie is writing in 1 he interest of a theological the importance of which in ill his hia mind is 19 greater than any facts that the occur competent etelle may discover manetto dates tile the of the begin beginning mc 11 1 1 dynasty nona nena at B C and lie may be considered a e aud and certainly torta a very sofa safe critic A little farther along in his work ho tells us that hat tho the foundations of the egyptian monji chy began about B C it if our biskop author despies to defend Ilor horgea nep theaty of biblical chion chronology against the well ascertained facts ot of bi history story lie ho has hai a perfect right to do so but let hini him not do doit it in ill the name of ega egyptian history iio he tells us another thing that is certainly remarkable for its modesty viz that the languages of tho the ancient romans mans greeks medes persians and an d Hin docis seem to have had a common origin why so much a aurance in regail to the altes d its of alivn irot history and so 0 o little in regard to a 11 much more certain matter viz the dilgin of the languages in question this sounds liko like a faint echo of tho the voice of bopes critics and i i to the one sided and dogmatic it if popular educational out lines must lie bo brief they need rot not be inaccurate and shortness is no e excuse for slovenliness let us hope that tha 1113 following numbers of tile tho journal will bo be more gle accurate curate in statement and better written writ tell for tho the movement is cert certainly 1 I 1 11 ly a commendable one C W JAMES |