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...Furnival speaks as follows on Prof. Child's "English and Scottish Ballads": "It seems strange at first sight that Englishmen should leave literary work which specially belongs to them to be done by Germans and Americans. And now we have the only fit edition of our best English and Scotch ballads by an American, too, - the well known Chaucer scholar, Professor F. J. Child of Harvard. The ballad lover confesses gladly that no one else has done such admirable work at our old popular ballads as Professor Child is doing has done. The book is an honor to its editor...
There is a Rugby foot ball club of young Englishmen in Chicago. Their eleven was recently defeated by the University of Michigan...
...academy of the English speaking peoples, and that America should unite with England in its formation. As the purpose of such an academy is to preserve the language in its purity, the best writers of that language should be chosen and not the most prominent Americans or Englishmen...
...unprejudiced manner as very much pleased with the play of the Americans, which, of its style, was the best he had ever seen. But he also said "that the style was entirely wrong. Against men of the Renshaw 'calibre,' they played far too near the net, and when the Englishmen really set themselves to play (that is in the second match, not the first), they did what they pleased in the long stretch of court, left absolutely undefended. It is all well enough to oppose the net game, properly so called, to players who are content with 'lobbing...
...Englishmen are becoming alarmed by a report that Oscar Wilde will appear as a star in the provincial theatres...