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469 "Instincts to Capacities," "Association," "Memory," "Attention and Interest," "Perception," "Imagination and Images," "The Emotions," "Exceptional School Children," and "The Development of Language in Children." There are six other chapters making in all a volume of 346 pages. Part of the work is somewhat abstruse, but his thoughtful laboring examinations into child life and its outworking, deserve serious consideration. The book is enriched by thirty-five good illustrations or diagrams.

COLLINS'S ADVANCED ALGEBRA. By Joseph V. Collins, Ph. D., Professor of Mathematics, State Normal School, Stevens Point, Wisconsin. Cloth, 12mo, 352 pages. Price, $1.00. American Book Co.

This book meets the entrance requirements to colleges and to technical and scientific schools as outlined by the College Entrance Examination Board. It also covers the ground specified in the Academic Syllabus for New York State. Furthermore, it is suitable for use in many colleges. The work is divided into three sections: Part I presents an adequate review of the most rudimentary principles of algebra, such as are given in the author's First Year Course (in many other books this treatment is so perfunctory and scant as to seriously handicap the average student); Part II includes the remaining topics belonging to what is frequently termed "elementary algebra"; Part III treats of the usual topics of advanced algebra, such as the general theory of equations, determinants, etc. Throughout, in the large number of informational problems, algebra is correlated with geometry, arithmetic, and science, and applied to matters of everyday life. Like the author's Second Course, this book may be used to follow his First Year Course or any similar work.

SOUTHERN LITERARY READINGS. By Leonidas Warren Payne, Jr., Adjunct Professor of English in the University of Texas. 14 fullpage portraits in half-tone. Cloth, 501 pages. Price, 75 cents. Rand McNally & Company.

use.

A book in which the best of Southern literature of all sections and all periods has been brought together and made available for classroom Thirty-four authors are represented by seventy-four selections, most of which are complete. The authors appear in chronological order, so that the book furnishes at the same time a survey of Southern literature and of social and economic life in the South.

HOADLEY'S ESSENTIALS OF PHYSICS. By George A. Hoadley, C. E., Sc. D., Professor of Physics, Swarthmore College. Cloth, 12 mo., 556 pages, with 558 illustrations and diagrams. Price, $1.25. American Book Company.

This is the author's popular and successful Elements of Physics, enriched and brought up to date. Despite the many changes and modifications made in this new edition, it retains the qualities which have secured so great a success for the previous book. It tells only what every.

one should know, and it does this in a straight-forward, concise and interesting manner. It takes into consideration the character of high school needs and conditions, and, throughout, lays particular emphasis upon the intimate relation between physics and everyday life.

More than one-fifth of the illustrations in the book are new, many of the pictures of apparatus having been redrawn to show modern forms.

PRINCIPLES OF CHARACTER MAKING. By Arthur Holmes, Ph. D. Philadelphia. J. B. Lippincott Co.

This is a new volume in the Educational Series edited by Martin G. Brumbaugh, Supt. of Schools, Philadelphia. Dr. Holmes is dean of Faculties, Pennsylvania State College; author of "The Conservation of the Child," etc. This book aims to be a textbook on applied psychology. He sees the child as neither plastic nor hard, but ready to "be guided like a vine upon a trellis." "Environment and Education are the final arbiters of man's destiny." In these twelve chapters of 336 pages we find vigorously set forth what Superintendent Brumbaugh regards as "the principles underlying what is generally regarded as moral education." Dr. Holmes aims to make the book scientifically sound and "usuable both to parents and teachers." To us the book seems quite labored and rather difficult for the ordinary teacher. For ourselves we have been much interested in the excellent chapters on "The Instincts" and "The Making and Breaking of Habits.” Our author is a vigorous, thoughtful, independent writer.

THROUGH ENGLAND WITH TENNYSON. By Oliver Huckel, translator of the Wagner Music-Dramas, etc. 32 illustrations and map. 8 vo. cloth. Thomas D. Crowell Company. $2.00 net. Postage, 20 cents.

All who love the poems of Alfred Tennyson should see this chronicle of a summer spent in a pilgrimage to the places associated with the great Laureate and his works. For no similar book has ever appeared.. The author who is himself a poet of recognized merit, spent three summer months with his copy of Tennyson in hand, among the various scenes which readers connect with Tennyson's memory. The place of the poet's birth and boyhood days, of his school and university life, of his marriage, of his long residence in the Isle of Wight and at Aldworth in the Surrey hills, of his death and final resting place were visited in turn and are here described At Aldworth Dr. Huckel enjoyed the hospitality of the present Lord and Lady Tennyson, who evinced the greatest interest in their guest's undertaking and to whom the resulting volume is dedicated. The various chapters are written in a lively, readable style, and the text is interspersed with numerous appropriate quotations from the poems. The illustrations, many of them from photographs taken during this memorable trip, are particularly interesting and add greatly to the attractiveness of the volume. A map is of help in following the author on his tour. The work constitutes an important addition to the well-known Crowell Travel Series.

LEATHER WORK. By Adelaide Mickel, Department of Manual Arts, Bradley Polytechnic Institute, Peoria, Illinois. A teachers' manual on leather work. Size 7 x 10-53 pages, bound in leather brown Coruscan paper. The Manual Arts Press. Price, postpaid, 75 cents.

The most complete and suggestive book published on leather-work for the art craft teacher and the craft worker in leather. The book is intended to be of practical assistance to teachers and students in acquiring the technique of the various kinds of leather-work. It describes the tools, processes and materials used in working leather and gives detailed descriptions of the processes to be followed in making the articles shown in the photographs.

The book is well illustrated with half-tones and line drawings, showing photographs of many finished articles and full-page working drawings of twenty useful and beautiful articles suitable for school and home work.

The receipt of the following books for our review department is acknowledged by the publishers of EDUCATION, who regret that the demand upon the available space is so great, that further notice, though deserved, is impracticable.

WITH AZIR GIRGES IN EGYPT. By Walter Scott Perry, M. A. Director School of Fine and Applied Arts, Pratt Institute. Lecturer on the History of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting. Author "Egypt the Land of the Temple Builders." Honorary Secretary Egypt Exploration Fund. Atkinson, Mentzer & Company. Price 40 cents.

The Barnes English Texts TREASURE ISLAND. By Robert Louis Stevenson. Edited with an introduction and notes by Ferdinand Q. Blanchard. The A. S. Barnes Company.

Heath's Modern Language Series DER ZWERG NASE von Wilhelm Hauff. With introduction, notes exercises and vocabulary. By Otto R. Patzwald, Head of Modern Language Department, High School, Santa Barbara, Cal., and Charles W. Robson, D. C. Heath & Company. Price 30 cents.

CRAMER'S CÀ ET LÀ EN FRANCE. By J. Grant Cramer, formerly Instructor in Modern Languages, Lehigh University, and Teacher of French and German, DeWitt Clinton High School, New York City. Cloth, 16 mo., 245 pages, with illustrations and map. Price, 45 cents. American Book Company.

IRREGULAR FRENCH VERBS. Arranged according to their Impor tance in everyday use. By R. W. Wright, B. A., Senior Modern Language Master, Liverpool College (Upper School). Longmans, Green & Company. Price 45 cents.

Everychild's Series WHEN GREAT FOLKS WERE LITTLE FOLKS. By Dorothy Donnell Calhoun. The Macmillan Company. Price 40 cents.

CHEMISTRY AND ITS RELATIONS TO DAILY LIFE. A textbook for Students of Agriculture and Home Economics in Secondary Schools. By Louis Kahlenberg, Professor of Chemistry and Director of the Course in Chemistry in the University of Wisconsin and Edwin B. Hart, Profes sor of Agricultural Chemistry and Chemist in the Agricultural Experiment Station in the University of Wisconsin. The Macmillan Company Price $1.25 net.

ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA Revised by Frederick H. Somerville, B. S The William Penn Charter School, Philadelphia, Pa. American Book Company.

THE SOCIAL RUBAIYAT OF A BUD. By Mrs. Ambrose Madison Willis. Illustrated and decorated by Elsie H. Harrison. Paul Elder & Company. Price 75 cents.

State of New Jersey Department of Public Instruction, Trenton THE TEACHING OF ELEMENTARY COMPOSITION AND GRAMMAR, June, 1913.

METHODE. Naturelle Et Rationnelle. Pour Apprendre En Meme Temps. A Parler Correctement. A Lire Et A Ecrire Le Francais. Par Louis Tesson. Officier d'Academie. Paris Ch. Amat, Editeur, 11, rue Cassette, 11 La Rochelle, Noel Texier, Imprimeur Rue des Sainte-Claire 29-31. 1913. Tous droits reserves.

By Leon O. Wiswell,

GLOBES AND MAPS. A teachers manual. School Libraries Inspector, New York State Education Dept. Rand McNally & Company.

Periodical Notes.

The Journal of the American Medical Association for February pertinently asks: "Do you know what ophthalmia neonatorum means? It is the scientific name for baby's sore eyes. It means a pus discharge from the eyes and lids of little new-born babies. It means that the baby's eyes have been infected at the time of birth or soon afterward. There are over one hundred thousand blind people in the United States to-day, over ten thousand of them have been made blind by this disease. Enough people are made blind by this disease alone every few years to populate a fairly sized city, because of the carelessness or neglect of some one in caring for the little new-born babies. It is an awful responsibility when through such carelessness or neglect a baby is allowed to become blind for life."

If you want to have a real good laugh get after the funny paragraphs in Lippincott's Magazine. It beats Puck, Judge and Life combined in this respect," and its squibs, anecdotes and rhymes are always clean and wholesome as well as witty.

In The Atlantic Monthly for February Principal Alfred E. Stearns of Phillips Andover Academy has a fine article on Athletics and Morals. Educators and athletes alike will find it interesting reading.

The North American Review has a reasonable reason for the use of "yes!" instead of "yea-a," "eh-a," "eh-up," and all the other corruptions.

"A Great Jew" is the title of an inspiring story in McClure's Magazine for February. It relates to the man who has just become Lord Chief Justice of England.

Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature

VOL. XXXIV.

of Education

APRIL, 1914

The Training of English Teachers

No. 8

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH.

W

E, the Committee on the Training of English Teachers, in submitting our report, desire first to explain to the members of the Association the limits we have set for ourselves. The phrase English teachers in its broad connotation includes teachers in all grades of schools, but in its narrower and more technical meaning it refers to those who are specialists in their field-those whose instruction is largely restricted to English. Thus narrowed, the term has, for the purpose of this inquiry, been interpreted to include only those whose English teaching is being done in the colleges and in the secondary schools.

We are glad to allude in passing to the splendid work which the state and city normal schools are doing for those who teach English in our elementary grades. Such work was early organized and has been carried out with rare industry and skill, and is now accepted as a necessary part of the training of those who teach reading, grammar, and composition in grades below the high schools. Indeed, the successful work accomplished in this field has been one of the motives that has prompted our present inquiry.

Our investigation has been limited as to territory. We know that Teachers College at Columbia University and many of the colleges and universities of the Middle West and the Far West