Show Praise o American S e ch Bitterly iT r T glan f 5 Oar London iY I C Correspondence I ONt Nt N San toH Is 18 the truth L flint Sidney Le 1 the lisa lou t gI lI t hits t a 11 t t Ii i n rim Es h ng I ho l n lab I l o 1 tIn itt I ru LImit bout aboul a r rh rite oc Ir t lIe meeting of thc ha rec nl formed J h In InstItuted to t pro tIll th t tue 1111 or of l to 10 Cot lI II a forell l lIllne ill iii the Or of c es try ry tJ BritIsh cm tn sire 1111 Mr Mc Lee slut that Ih rank 1111 III lilt of Ill the WITto than th the river age l 1 WitS b lel laught In Iii bolh the tho lo low aud high giede lii Am America In n l ulI h phool All As ot of the greater reter whIch nI h IH Ii taught ImI hI 1101 lie in tho act that at uni university erIt there IU 20 professors of En Eng III at Oxford there lall only one In III English pa AmerIca hi said Is no better to the linus it 11 Iee lie He is 0 of English literature lie He Is I Sll l acquainted with time 1111 of both hoth Countries no lie hilt hils 1111 at Lowell lUll tute John Jhn Hopkins nn amid It America in Slut that does doell not net make what ho he says SIlS nn any the more palatable for h folk Sonic Somo of the attempts made here t to ro 10 fute his hili statements are ludicroUs A great London daily has hall reo nit course to 10 nn amid amidan an obviously faked IntervIew at that It luote an stay Ing imig lIt at hotel liS as saying I Iguess gu guess ss 0 considerable more ab abOut ut your language you do yourself les got gal right there and I reck reckon on oil holl sized You ou up UI O 0 IC 1 We Va I Ireal lip real liVe professors In Our and what they dont donl know about toO British h language worth knowing Shucks any guy who says contrary dont lenow enough to t keep out the rain And I a fact lit is the sort of stuff sture which a cig journal sets sats before Its us a air specimen or of English as 1111 Shu IS IK spoke b by gentle As well might one quote the language o of a nil na typical or that thul of the or of D The English studies at the much vaulted English public Elon Harrow And similar ta a amoos moos frequently been denounced by En Englishmen of It weight anti Prominence liS scandalous The their place In the Iho curriculum At the close or of orthe the Doel war with its III ro re incidents various learned held helli InquirIes Into the tho status of the officer who In hue cases out of ten Is II a pro product product duct o of these sense Ime public schools Th The r result ull wits sweeping a or of their educational methods method And that b been ln going op 01 ever simme Consider this for or instance Soon after to India a 11 A II was 1 II d that thul many ot of who ishio hail w r so in III c that Ih they to cope lOPO with the sub a of WhiCh is III ess n f Sr r the In tho hit linn antni amid time lIm nail labor be on d subjecting hut them to IL a course of 1111 l MO Most I of hits tho young men thu to Were s hoo Yet Yel they were elementary rl or of education that the average boy I IS well srun d Jut In before ho enters his hili Not long i ago lO G II issued It 1 report in which he Ii that II a large olgO number or of the wM tJI to for had been so Imperfectly ed that thAI theIr spelling It id amid nud the they svere unable to express themselves lell Dr T Miller the famous army e cOach hOIl hns had his pupils many rich mens sois front Crom these costly public scio l who come to him to have their thel educations rem Id Id Our fashionable English lib he said Mid to 10 lila are about the worst Jut the world ore Me 1 for Latin and Greek antI even these ar nd II Ill taught The are ure hotbeds ur of snobbery They kindle rio no desire for intellectual life Compared With lIh the tho graduates or of cot col leges find unIversitIes th lr graduates are not us 11 It II But they are In the hands of old to fo for tor the most part men who live on the traditions of the past and It Is not 1101 at nil all likely that Sidney Le Leo will be beable able to wake up Ul |