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It would be difficult to find so modest a public work to exceed it in this respect. John D. Runkle, who lived till 1902, was, as I have said, the senior and leading assistant in the office. He afterward became a professor in the Institute of Technology, and succeeded Rogers as its president.
It was jist laithly to luik upo'. I cud describe it till ye, mem, but it wad only gar ye runkle yer bonny broo, an' luik as I wadna hae ye luik, mem, 'cause ye wadna luik freely sae bonny as ye div noo whan ye luik jist yersel'. But ae queer thing was, 'at atween hit an' the tree it grippit a buik, an' I kent it for the buik o' ballants. An' I gaed nearer, luikin' an' luikin', an' some frichtit.
Runkle founded the "Mathematical Monthly," having secured, in advance, the coöperation of the leading professors of the subject in the country. The journal was continued, under many difficulties, for three years. As a vehicle for publishing researches in advanced mathematics, it could not be of a high order, owing to the necessity of a subscription list.
"Why didn't you bring her with you?" Pandora benevolently asked. "Well, she doesn't go out much. Then she has got her sister staying with her Mrs. Runkle, from Natchez. She's a good deal of an invalid, and my wife doesn't like to leave her." "She must be a very kind woman" and there was a high mature competence in the way the girl sounded the note of approval.
Yer father was a great man as weel's a great soger, Francie, and a deevil to fecht, as his men said. I hae mysel seen by the set mou 'at the teeth war clinched i' the inside o' 't, whan a' the time on the broo o' 'im sat never a runkle. Gien ever there was a man 'at cud think o' twa things at ance, your father cud think o' three; and thae three war God, his enemy, and the beast aneath him.
The men beside me were Professor Joseph Winlock, the superintendent, and Mr. John D. Runkle, the senior assistant in the office. I talked of my unsuccessful attempt to master the "Mécanique Céleste" of Laplace without other preparation than that afforded by the most meagre text-books of elementary mathematics of that period. Runkle spoke of the translator as "the Captain."
This causes what they call "the dead level of democracy." Your Tennyson has the inner tracks of our Longfellow: your Thackeray gives our Bertha Runkle his dust. The papers called Pappa unpatriotic, and a bad American. But he was not: he was a white man. When he saw his country's faults he put his finger on them, right there, and tried to cure them. 'A noble policy, murmured Merton.
Rudd & Carleton. 12mo. pp. 366. $1.00. The Mathematical Monthly. Edited by J.D. Runkle. For February and March. Cambridge. John Bartlett. 2 Nos. 25 cts. each. A New History of the Conquest of Mexico, in which Las Casas' Denunciations of the Popular Historians of that War are fully vindicated. By Robert Anderson Wilson. Philadelphia. James Challen & Son. 8vo. pp. 539. $2.50.
Edited by J.D. RUNKLE, A.M., A.A.S. Nos. I.-VII. October, 1858, to April, 1859. Cambridge: John Bartlett. 4to. pp. 284. The title of Mr. Runkle's Monthly is much drier than its table of contents.
Runkle did not want to run the risk of injuring his subscription list by offending one occupying an influential position if he could help it with honor to the journal. Of course it was not a question of publishing the paper, but only of letting the author know why he did not do so, "letting him down easy." Bartlett's advice was characteristic.
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