Show THE CLASSICS DYING OU r 1 greek tind litin litan no longer cultivated a as in III days guno gono lly by it is an undoubted i U lamentable fact that ali lit tile the day of the cla classics aeb is practically over many it a buried literary treasure re will perhaps lie hidden for years in in their greek 3 A and latin dress for all that til at the world at large larg c will over ever know of them I 1 had bad occasion says a writer write r in the brocci to ask for a cei certain tai ii t ti an all lation a few days ago in one of the largest book beoh stores in new york and taie I buyer niver told me wo we keep heep vcr few of the classics and it doesn doean t pay to stock up any more is absolutely no demand for them and a perfectly equipped bookstore L can be sustained nowadays without a sigfrie cl canic nic on oil it its shob shelves ves take our modern orators orator and liow often will they employ isiom irom cicero tale thenes ies plato mato and ana tiie the othe iNot Is of oil OIK in a hundred roi meily when rah waldo Li emerson einerson nerson V eridell vendell philis olives oliver I 1 endola holmes edvi d everatt ind and amo bionson alcott alco tt N were cre on the lyceum it was necessary for those who them thein to have a belr 0 of tile the cla classics to intelligently follow them but now good fi h lyndsl 11 d 3 1 alie lyceum lyce llin is lead dead and bo ale tile lle classics Pr probably probably bably five times a 3 ear in lu a have a abill eill for one and it doe alt pay to keep a block lor these ay ue ac inanda |