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THE DAILY EXAMINER.

APRIL 23, 1887.

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*In Divers Tones,”

BY CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS, MONTREAL, DAWSON BROTHERS, 1887, 12 Mo. Professor Roberts, of King’s College,

Windsor, N. S., who, as the author of

“Orion,” took at one leap the rank of first

of the English-speaking poets of » Canada,

has just issued a volume of lyrics that in no degree derogate from his high literary posi- tion. The volume is neatly got up and suitable fur the drawing-room table. It contains some sixty lyrics ‘‘in divers tones’ from grave to gay, many of them appro- priate to be wedded to music. Mere versi- fication is but a secondary feature in poetry, but the rhyme of these lyrics is always mellifluous and often happy. These are no

too much in fashion, but are imbued with

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§School Law Amendments,

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Srr,—-Our Local Government has at length brought in a bill to amend the Edu- cation Act, In its principle it would seem to bear harshly on the teachers in the country schools.

One of the ideas contained in the bill is to pay teachers according to the grade of the schools in which they teach. Why is this? A very large majority of the schools of the country are at present third class. These schools can have only third class teachers if the proposed amendments be- come law; consequently many districts will be deprived of an advantage they now en- joy—of engaging at least teachers of the second class.

Under the now existing school-law no teacher of the first class can receive more than second class pay in other than first class schools, although the opening speech of the Hon. Leader of the Government would lead the uninitiated to suppose first class teachers did receive the full statutory allowance for their class.

By the School Law, as it now stands, it

a strong manly oY and a vivid apprecia- tion of nature. ‘‘Tantramar” revisited is as fine in de-| scription as anything in ‘‘Evangeline,” the | rhyme of which it resembles. ‘In the afternoon,”—by the long dykes of West- moreland,—is a marvellous piece of pre-, Raphaelite word painting,graphiec in the ex- | treme. So, in a/ighter tone, is a cheery | ballad of ‘Birch and Paddle.” In fact! throughout the whole volume are evidences , of how close an observer of nature the author is. A Canadian tone runs through- out. Prof. Roberts is, moreover, eminently at home in his classic compositions. ‘*Actoeon,” *‘Off Pelorus,” and ‘‘The Pipes | of Pan” are examples to those whose read- ing has given qualification and taste to ap- preciate. Canadian literature has taken a great step in advance within a very few years past. The standard now set up is but little below that of the intellectual nations of Europe and native writers falling below that standard have little chance to survive. The poetry of Professor Roberts would be | considered quite up to the intellectual mark, were it from the pen of a son of any British university. The following collect will come in handy for next Dominion Day :-— ) Farther of nations! Help of the feeble hand ! Strength of the strong! to whom the nations kneel ! Stay and destroyer at whose just command —— tremble and her empires reel ! Who dost the low uplift, the small make great And dost abase the ignorantly proud, {OF our scant people mould a mighty state, To the strong, stern; to Thee in meekness bowed ! Father of unity, make this people one ! Weld, interfuse them in the patriot’s flame,— Whose forggin on thine anvil was begun, In blood late shed to purge the common shame, That so our hearts, the fever of faction done, Banish old feud in our young nation’s name.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

The Supplementary Clause.

Sizx,—I am somewhat surprised to find so many of our representatives so ignorant of the, true state of public opinion in the country with regard to the supplementary clause. The people, as a whole, are decidedly opposed to it ; there is no other section of the Act thet has caused so much dissatisfaction as this same supplementary clause. In the first place, if the residents of a schodl district agree upon voting a supplement,they are required to dos» at the annual meeting in July, when many of the taxpayers, especially those who follow the occupation of fishing, are absent from home. The absentees may be opposed to granting a supplement, but afew of their neighbors at home can go to work at the annual meeting, and vote away a hundred or so dollars, which they will have to help pay whether willing or not. Then, again, voting a supplement does not always bring along the better teacher. A school district, for instance, has the services of a teacher for one year, who has not given satisfaction to either parents or children. At the end of the year they give him his walking ticket, and vote a supplement of, say, fifty or sixty dollars, in the hope of thereby getting a better one. But in this’ they are very often disappointed, for it frequently happens that the best paid teachers are found to be most negligent.

Then, again, the supplementary clause is unfair to the poorer districts. One district votes (say) eighty dollars as a supplement. The Government gives a similar amount, which is always paid whether the amount voted by the district is paid in or not. It is very often not paid at all by the district. But the Government must pay, and the amount which they pay over to the teachers in the supplementary districts is drawn from the general funds of the Pro- vince, and consequently those residing in the non-supplementary districts contribute towards the amount paid by the Govern- ment, which are, as a general rule, the wealthier districts of the country.

This, I hold, is not fair dealing. In a word, the supplementary clause should be abolished altogether. Let the teachers be paid in full from the Provincial Treasury. If we have not revenue enough to do this, and taxes must be levied, let them be levied by one set of tax assessors, and not by two sets, as under a former administration. This would save the people a great deal of trouble and annoyance, and trustees of some country schools a large amount of ill- will from indignant taxpayers.

If we are to have any amendments to our present School Act, let our law-makers and menders begin by first striking out the vbnoxious supplementary clause.

a Vox Porvin April 22; 1887.

n this brief notice we can | only refer to a few of the most striking. |

is only the first-class teacher suffers ; if the amendments become law, beth first and second class will be obliged to work for only third class pay ; and in some cases for even less, if they are left as the bill pro- poses, entirely at the mercy of Inspectors and the School Board.

Here again is a most objectionable fea- ture of the bill, viz : Giving the School Board or Superintendent, as the case may be, full power to fix the maximum of first and second class schools. It would give them the opportunity of showing their dis- satisfaction with a teacher or a district that may have fallen under their displea- sure.

The Government wisely, no doubt, de- sires to reduce or limit the expenditure for education. but surely there is some means beside trying to pass a Coercion Act for the teacher. Would it not be practicable to do away with the Supplementary Clause and increase the average salary of teachers by a few dollars and by this means save $8000 for the country.

The clause appointing an additional In- spector would be an advantage to the Inspectors by making the work lighter. If the Government would appoint four Inspec- tors at a salary of say five or six hundred dollars, it would be more advantageous to the cause of Education.

This is a question of vital importance to teachers and to the country,and they should not look quiety on without any protest against the injustice of these amendments.

Thanking you, Mr. Editor, for space in your valuable paper.

Yours, etc., TRACHER,

The Victoria Park Drive.

Sir,—While the citizens are agitating for a breastwork and drive around Government Farm Shore, they might as well make a re- spectable thing out of it. This they can do by continuing the Dundas Esplanade over the Douse property and along by L. H. Davies’ water front to the Government Bridge, where it would join the proposed breastwork. ‘Lhis would then be a delightful drive and pleasant walk, passing through the prettiest part of the city, and would be a dwect road to the Park.

Surely the owners of the above mentioned property, whose land it would pass by, ean have no objection to the matter. Why, it would increase the value of their places im- mensely. I would respectfully draw the at- tention of the committee to it and let them de- cide if it is practicable or not.

This esplanade is in itself very short, and its west entrance anything but picturesque,not to speak of the odor of pork in summer. This continuation, which I recommend, would do away with this, and afford the citizens an un- broken and beautiful drive fron Water Street west, to the four gun battery.

1 would also add that it is to be hoped that the Goverument intend doing something this summer with that filthiest of holes, the West Bog and Government Pond.

If the shanties were burnt, and the Pond properly dredged and cleaned, a delightful spot might be made of what is now an eyesore and certain suurce of infection. I imagine that it would pay Councillor T. A. McLean better if he were agitating on this subject, instead of the one he is, in the Council, as his front door directly commands the scene I speak of. As it now stands it is a disgrace to our City, a laughing-stock to our visitors, and a sure source of fever and disease.

Perhaps when some terrible pestilence deci- mates the residents of that portion of the town, the survivors may at last wake up to find the loathsome nature of the foulness which they have allowed to remain in their midst for so long, and which is accumulating more filth every year.

[ am yours respectfully. PLINTHOS.

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