The Japanese-Russian War Pictorially Photos by C. E. Lorrimer, Special Correspondent of Overland Monthly in Manchuria. carried ashore by the French sailors, after the destruction of the "Varyag" and "Koreetz" at Chemulpo, Korea. A. The "Koreetz" almost under water in Chemulpo Harbor. On the bridge of this ship a young Lieutenant, while directing the signaling, was shot to pieces by the bursting of a shell. Only his arm and hand were found, still grasping the flag. B. A side view of the same ship. A. The sinking of the "Varyag." Two monster columns of flame and smoke. The wounded Russians watched their ship sink from the deck of the "Pascal." B. The overturned "Varyag" in Chemulpo Harbor. NOTES ON CHOOSING A SCHOOL T BY AUSTIN LEWIS HE immediate comfort of the boy, as well as his intellectual progress and his chances of successful struggle in the world of men depend very largely upon the proper choice of his school. The requirements of a good school are manifold. It must give proper and due care to the manners and cleanliness of the boys, as well as to their physical health and moral and intellectual development. It is very necessary, moreover, that the school associations should be of the very Lest, that the social and moral standards of the pupils should be high, and that the teachers should possess not only only intellectual acaccomplishments, but should be endowed, in addition, with certain graces of manner, which of themselves enforce respect and place them on a footing superior to that of the somewhat crude objects of their discipline. The associations and the calibre of the teachers ought to be the determining considerations. A boy of average ability, in almost any school, can accomplish sufficient work to enable him to pass the matriculation examinations at the university, and hence to pursue his crdinary professional studies. So that the mere curriculum of bookwork in a school is not a matter of very great importance. In these days of free and wellconducted day schools there is generally some particular reason for sending a boy to a boarding school, such as inability on the part of the family to cope with an active and growing boy, restiveness of the boy under parental control, or some other personal or family reason why it is better that he should not remain at home. The school then should be chosen to suit the temperament of the boy, and it is here that the difficulty begins to be apparent. It is not easy to discover the attitude of a school with regard to certain vital questions. The school catalogues cannot be relied upon, except for the most general statements, and long magisterial disquisitions respecting management and school discipline are not to be taken as conclusive of anything in particular. The prowess of the school in games, on the one hand, or in actual university work on the other, is a better guide, for these show that there is a sort of virility about the place, and the chances are that a tone of healthy activity pervades the institution. This is the best atmosphere for boys as for men, for where real work is being accomplished and actual results achieved, there is little danger of idleness and the vices which spring from it taking root. But there is some risk that things are not all that they ought to be in an institution where the amount of energy expended upon athletics is excessive. The public schools of England are at present suffering. from this very thing. The great, and, indeed, universal attention which athletic sports receive at the hands of the British public has caused the schools to expend an excessive amount of energy upon them, and the head-masters are now crying out against a tendency which they are powerless to stem, but |