An English Boy's Knowledge Of Literature

Every one who is not a schoolmaster is aware that a young Englishman knows almost nothing of the literatura of his own land, and what little he does know be dislikes. because he has had at school to translate it into Latin. It is most humiliating to hear an American youth discourse upon tliis matter while our own sons sit mum and glum. Efforts have been made of late to find out what our boys do read for their own pleasure, and the result of these inquiries seems to be that they read the accounts of prize fights. One headmaster tries to prove that this is derived from the influence of Homer, but it is much more likely that it comes from a perusal of the sporting newspapers and the general devotion to athletics. Fiftm whatever cause it arises, it is certainly true that while there is no deficiency of good poetry and good fictirm amons lis the risinsr treneration