There is no compulsion upon them to do so; but I should be very much surprised on the provision being passed if, as a matter of fact, you do not find that in centers of large educational matters and enlightened opinions, such as Glasgow, such assistance is given."

It is evident from this dispassionate statement that the religious problem which has convulsed both France and England does not exist in Scotland.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES

The report of the Mosely Educational Commission was published last month in London. Its general tenor can readily be inferred from articles that have already appeared in various English papers. All the members appear to have been struck with the lavish expenditure for education in this country and the universal belief in its practical importance. Our system of public high schools, with the tendency to special types of training, commercial and manual training, also seems to have made a profound impression. Mr. W. C. Fletcher, a head master in Liverpool, who has submitted a special report embodying his observations and opinions to the education committee of his city, was convinced from his talks with large manufacturers of this country that they have a preference for highly educated men for important positions in their establishments. "In England," he says, "it is probably still true that a college or even a prolonged school education prejudices a boy in applying for work.” In general he believes it is taken much more as a matter of course in this country that children should pass on to the high school than it is in England. Judgment and alertness of mind are stimulated in these schools, which qualities are especially valuable in business. The severest criticisms of the commission seem to be directed against the methods employed in the public schools. The full report, especially with reference to its criticisms, will be noticed hereafter in these columns.

Among vacation courses announced for the coming summer in various scholastic centers of Europe are a course in geography to be given at the School of Geography, Oxford, during the first half of August and a very attractive program of lessons in the French language and literature at the University of Grenoble during four months beginning with July 1st.

Inquiries with respect to the Oxford course are to be addressed to the Curator, School of Geography, Broad Street, Oxford. The address. for the courses at Grenoble is Monsieur le Président du Comité de Patronage, 4 Place de la Constitution, Grenoble, France.

A. T. S.

A Wedding

The sky is deep and dazzling blue;

Great, white cloud masses drift and pass Above the emerald groves of trees

That cast deep shadows down the grass, And all the earth is strewn with flowers

From the flushed, open palm of June; For this-it is a wedding day

The day that sets the world in tune. As glides the chorused voice of bells, Slipping to chains of silver sound, So e'er may happy years glide down

This chain,-two lives together bound. Here in this silent, sacred place,

An unseen, solemn Presence bows,

To set its everlasting seal

Upon a minute's passing vows

Green garlands through the gloom breathe out
Faint fragrance, like a gentle prayer;
And all the waiting, hushed host feels
A benediction in the air.

But now the stillness deep is stirred.
A soft, slow rustle starts and grows
Beneath the sleeping crimson light
That deepens downward like a rose.
Now swelling out and flying up

With beating wings in joyful strife,
The viewless hosts of harmony

Strike on the trembling strings of life. Nothing but light and love and joy

Can touch that form of misty light, Whose golden hair against his dark Gleams like a star above the white

Cloud laces trailing after her.

Vibrating back to silence, the
Rich airs listen to words that ne'er
Can be unspoken,-as they flee
The future grows the past, and glide
Beyond recall th' attendant Fates,
Held in the moment's hand; but ne'er
Did paradise fling open gates

To strains freer from notes of care,

Than gushed when marriage's wide door paled

Before her dazzling self within,

Kokassau's Prophet, or an Angel, veiled.

HELEN CARY CHADWICK.

Book Notices

NOTE.-The number of books now published monthly is so large that we shall hereafter adopt the plan of promptly acknowledging by title, author, publisher (and price when we have it) all books sent us for review; and later, as space is available, give more extended notice to such as seem most likely to be of interest and value to our readers.-Publishers EDUCATION.

Outlines of Universal History. By George Park Fisher, D.D., LL.D. This book deserves more than a passing notice. Yet the name of Professor Fisher as its author makes any word of praise unnecessary. No writer on historical subjects in modern times has been more thorough in his scholarship or more painstaking and careful in regard to his literary style than Professor Fisher. The temperament of the man is distinctly philosophical, and the reader is sure to be guided and helped to an insight into the operations of the great law of cause and effect, which runs through all the development of the human race as shown in the events of history. Professor Fisher's grasp of detail is marvelous. One cannot help feeling impressed with the immense learning of the man. His eye sweeps the whole range of history from the earliest times to the present day, and his mind seems to comprehend it all. Step by step the reader is led onward, until he finds himself absorbed in the great drama. It is an education to read such a book. The present work is a revision of an earlier book along the same lines, bringing the subject fully up to date. Whatever the subject in which one is interested, he will find here an authoritative account of its history. While designed as a text-book, the volume is also an unsurpassed reference work, and of great value for private reading. Numerous maps on thin paper are folded in, in appropriate places. and other colored maps occupy single or double pages. There are also tables of statistics, charts, etc. American Book Company. Price, $2.40.

The Belles-Lettres Series, or Literature for Literature's Sake. The well-known firm of D. C. Heath & Co has put the entire literary world, no less than the educational world, under a debt of gratitude in devising a monumental series of books fully representing the entire range of English literature. Already more than one hundred and forty volumes have been named, and are in preparation. They will represent the most significant works in English literature from its beginning to the present time. Each volume will contain from 128 to 400 pages, in handy volume shape, printed on excellent paper and in clear, good-sized type. The series is divided into sections, each of which is in charge of an editor who has a real claim to the title of expert. The sections are as follows: (1) English Literature from Its Beginning to the Year 1100; (2) Middle English Literature; (3) The English Drama; (4) Literary Criticism and Critical Theory; (5) Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Poets; (6) Nineteenth Century Poets. The texts are, so far as possible, the accepted editions, and they are unexpurgated. The volumes of the series which we have seen contain each an admirable introduction, which helps the reader to appreciate the work considered, and to observe its place in the history of literature. The biography, bibliography, notes, and glossary are evidently the work of scholars and critics. In fact, these beautiful, handy volumes leave little to be desired in the way of a complete presentation of the magnificent literature of

the English-speaking peoples. It goes without saying that the series is foreordained to success-at least, if the later volumes carry out the promise and come up to the standard of the volumes thus far published. The price is not the least attractive feature, and it is hard for the uninitiated to understand how such complete, scholarly, and mechanically perfect books can be sold at from forty to seventy-five cents each.

The Roosevelt Book. Selections from the writings of Theodore Roosevelt, with an introduction by Robert Bridges. This is sufficiently stirring and thrilling to interest the average American boy. It sets forth the attractions of the strenuous life. Hero Tales Told in School. By James Baldwin. It takes up certain stories from the world's literature which have been told for ages but which have never lost their charm, such as "How Apollo Came to Parnassus," "The Story of the Golden Apple,” of “Paris and Helen," "How Charlemagne Crossed the Alps," and others. Charles Scribner's Sons. Both of these books are prettily illustrated, and are sold for the very reasonable price of 50 cents each.

Wisdom and Will in Education. By Charles William Super. This is a calm and thoughtful presentation of certain phases of educationism which will commend itself to all deliberate readers of pedagogical lore. Dr. Super believes in the science of education and in its being rightly understood by those engaged in it. He holds that the community should be as interested in educational matters as are teachers, and to that end he has written with a conviction that is apparent on every page. Dr. Super is no alarmist but he fears for the future of the schools if there be not greater attention given to their management along the lines of progress, for the history of civilization is but the history of education and the schools must be governed by highest motives and with faithfullest attention to the coming generations. The book is a wholesome contribution to the thought of the day and deserves the candid attention of every student of sociology and education. Myers, Fishel & Co., Harrisburg, Pa.

Tools and Machines. By Charles Barnard. This is a book of information on tools in common use and on machines-their construction and their functions in the arts and trades - on the history and development of tools from primitive weapons, and on the latest improvements; all told in an easy, readable style that holds interest. It tells exactly what the every-day user of tools needs to know and seeks in vain to discover, and it gives to the expert in the use of machines and tools the information that is necessary to supplement his practical knowledge. There is no other book quite like this and its use in the shop, school and home workshop is to be commended. Silver, Burdett & Co.

Composition and Rhetoric. By Rose M. Kavana and Arthur Beatty. This is a novel presentation of the subject of rhetoric, the authors having developed a scheme for the study that is entirely out from the beaten paths and sufficiently unique to merit attention and careful study. The aim is to apply to the study of composition the studio method familiar to students of other arts. It resembles the so-called laboratory and other inductive methods of studying English in that it contains little theory and provides for much practice. The method of the book is distinctly a literary, not a rhetorical method, and differs from all others in its use throughout of a system of typical paragraph and

theme-models derived from particular pieces of literature and from conversation in daily life. The introduction is an elaborate exposition of the authors' method and deserves careful reading. Their book is based on literary models and is thoroughly inductive and practical. We heartily commend it to the attention of all teachers of rhetoric and composition. Rand, McNally & Co.

The Force of Mind. By Alfred T. Schofield, M.D. The sub-title of this interesting work is, The Mental Factor in Medicine, which is a careful study of the action of the mind in causing diseases, and in curing them. Dr. Schofield is a rigorous believer in the action of the mind over matter and in particular in its influence in the case of diseases which attack the body. He believes and strives to make good his contention that if physicians should study more the action of the mind, the importance of the mental factor in medicine, there would more power be theirs in the practice of their profession and an infinitely greater number of cures among their patients. His book is at once polemical and hortatory; he fortifies himself in his positions with copious references from the best thinkers and scientists, and his illustrative cases are numerous and convincing. Teachers and parents will find this a most valuable and suggestive work, it being written in a popular style and entirely without the employment of the technical terminology of the psychologist or physicist. Funk & Wagnalls Company.

The Place of Industries in Elementary Education. By Katherine Elizabeth Dopp. This is the age of industry; captains of industry are the heroes of the hour. The wonderful activity in all matters material has led to deep thinking on the subject of industries and their proper place in education or in the schools. It is well when the first flush for the introduction of the manual trades into the schools has passed that there be given to the subject the consideration which it deserves. The science and philosophy of the subject have been too little appreciated, the schools have taken on some form of manual study without knowing just what the relations thereof were to the fundamental principles of elementary education. Miss Dopp has contributed a thoroughly exhaustive study to the subject and her little book is most timely and welcome. The University of Chicago Press.

The Middle Ages and Modern Europe. By Dana Carleton Munro and Merrick Whitcomb. This book is divided into two parts. Part I. "A History of the Middle Ages;" and Part II. "A History of Modern Europe." The date chosen as the starting point is the earliest one recommended by "The Committee of Seven." The relations of the history of Europe to that of the rest of the world are carefully brought out. The work of the Christian Church is emphasized as one of the greatest of the civilizing agencies. The modern debt of Byzantine and Arabic civilizations is recognized, and the life of the present times is fully described. As a thorough-going school history for mature students this book is to be highly commended. It will find its way into high schools and colleges throughout the country. It belongs to the series of twentieth century text-books, which have made the name of the publishers, D. Appleton & Co., famous wherever there are teachers and students.

Old Time Schools and School Books. By Clifton Johnson. This is a large, handsome volume, very fully illustrated with excellent drawings and engravings showing the growth that has taken place in schools and the books