greatness are in part as follows:

A fortune awaits the person who will thus bring genealogy
home to the hearts of the common people and make the
contemplation of a pedigree a source of daily happiness.

We fear that J. Henry Lea, who has just published a
hand-book entitled "Genealogical Research in England,
Scotland, and Ireland," misses the point of view. He is a
dryasdust, who is concerned about long, dull tables of the
probate courts, lists of marriage licenses, and parish
registers. He talks as if genealogy were a science--a notion
that also troubles a recent writer in the London
_Spectator_.

But if genealogy is to appeal to the masses, it must be an
art. Now, the strength of an art is not its grasp of facts,
but its flight of imagination. In a science the rule is,
abundant data and meager results; in an art, meager data and
abundant results.

Tell a scientific genealogist that your grandfather, a Welsh
cobbler, arrived in the steerage in 1860, and what do you
get? After three years and numerous fees for expenses, you
learn that for two centuries the heads of the family had
been mechanics or small tradesmen--a disgusting outcome.

Tell an artistic genealogist the same thing, and in three
weeks, for a stipulated sum, you have a neat picture of a
tree, proving that you are a Tudor, and that the English
Tudors got their start by marrying into your family. This is
why we set art above groveling science.

TEACHING IS A VERY POPULAR PROFESSION.

College Graduates in Increasing Proportion
Are Taking It Up Instead
of the Law and the Ministry.

College graduates in these times are found in all walks of life; but, of
course, there are more in the professions than in business--and more in
some professions than in others. Also there has been a change, during the
last twenty years, in the relative proportions of college men going into
different kinds of work.

Chancellor MacCracken, speaking at a commencement of New York University,
said:

What change, if any, has there been in the choice of
professions by college graduates in the last twenty years? I
was recently asked this question by a New York editor, and
was unable to answer him. I have since obtained this
information from the advance sheets of the new alumni
catalogue, issued to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of