those who are aware that they are temperamentally excitable,-in the matter of the Movie habit. Beware of excessive stimulation of nerve centers where corresponding normal healthful expression in subsequent action is not possible.

February is the month of birthdays. Mr. William B. Forbush, Director of the National Honesty Bureau, sends out a note in which he asks:

"What personally do Lincoln and Washington mean to the average school child? Is it not this, that Washington was an honest boy; that Lincoln was a man of such integrity that he was known as 'Honest Abe'? How about emphasizing old-fashioned honesty now? Doesn't the world need it? We make a lot of thrift in schools, and a lot of domestic science, the hand maid of thrift, because these are such 'practical' subjects. Wouldn't it be practical, in a land where annual losses through theft are over a third of a billion dollars, to say or do something that might help save this incredible leakage? In a time when the age of criminals is growing steadily lower, and the corruption of boyhood by 'the crime trust' is a menacing peril, isn't there room and place in the schools for vigorous counter-education?"

Mr. Forbush has recently been seeing some interesting experiments. In one school he saw the superintendent, as an English exercise, ask six questions out of real life, about what would be honest practice in a given situation. He gave the pupils ten minutes to answer. He was enthusiastic about the results. "The pupils are thinking morally straight-give them the chance," was his testimony. In another instance he saw a teacher correlate an Honesty-lesson with the commercial arithmetic; in another, with the history; in a third, with the spelling. In Montclair a teacher of bookkeeping was telling his pupils how he had just been obliged to refuse to help a recent graduate to secure a bond as an employee, because of his dishonest record in school. Another teacher is helping her pupils compose and produce a play founded upon a biography of honor. This is not an "extra." It is part of the day's work, and, so important is it for the future, it is a part of the day's job.

Not long since, an eminent American business man, became so impressed with the necessity of crime-prevention, that he instituted the "Honesty Bureau," to help teachers revive the Eighth Commandment. A book of methods and stories, entitled "The Honesty Book," has been prepared, and a copy will be freely sent to every teacher who will promise to use it. It will be especially helpful for the February holidays. It will be useful all the year. The address is, The National Honesty Bureau, 115 Broadway, New York.

Book Reviews

OUTLINES OF CHILD STUDY. A Manual for Parents and Teachers. Edited by Benjamin C. Gruenberg, for The Federation for Child Study. With an Introduction by Edward L. Thorndike. The Macmillan Company.

A comprehensive presentation of the problems that are faced by all parents and teachers of children, with wise suggestions for their further study, and extended citations of sources of information. The book is practical, because it is devoted to the consideration of the common every-day experiences of boys and girls of various ages and social conditions.

Another brief manual, confined to a specific problem faced by those who are dealing with children is found in

HOW TO TEACH MANNERS TO SCHOOL CHILDREN. By Julia M. Dewey. Published by Lloyd Adams Noble. Price 50 cents.

This little manual is right to the point. Parents and children themselves will equally value it; for children, as soon as they begin to go out and mingle with other children, and especially when they begin to attend parties and other social gatherings, feel the need of just such guidance as this little book furnishes.

ESSAYS AND ESSAY WRITING. Based on Atlantic Monthly Models. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by William M. Tanner, M. A. (University of Texas). The Atlantic Monthly Press.

"Mining" in a "claim" like the Atlantic Monthly, is a rewarding venture. Nuggets abound on every hand and can be picked up almost at random. The essays included in this volume have been chosen for their permanent human interest. Their average length is such that the casual reader will not be wearied, but rather he will be allured to read on, assured of fresh entertainment and food for thought on each succeeding page. There are five "type-groups," with brief prefaces for each group. The ability to get enjoyment and profit out of this style of writing (for the essayist has a field of his own and it is an art that not everybody acquires) is one to be coveted. It opens new sources of information and wide vistas of inspiration. It is fortunate that such a deposit of pure, sparkling, human thought and feeling exists from which to supply the needs of English departments, and a growing public demand as well.

THE LAND OF HEALTH. By Grace T. Hallock and C. E. A. Winslow. With a Chapter on Exercise, by Walter Camp. Charles E. Merrill Company.

This is one volume in a valuable series of brief but comprehensive books bearing the title of "The Winslow Health Series." It claims that hygiene can be taught to children of from eight to ten years of age. The lessons are in the form of stories. They are interesting and engaging. The health lessons are naturally interwoven with the narrative and are made attractive and definite. The reviewer is impressed with a feeling that the youngsters of today are indeed fortunate in their school books and school tasks as compared to the facilities for learning that existed in a former generation.

RHYTHMIC GAMES AND DANCES FOR CHILDREN. By Mrs. Florence Kirk. Longmans, Green and Company.

An attractive manual of exercises, games, marches and dances for children of four or five years of age. Rhythm is its fundamental principle, as it is of the normal child life. It is claimed that rhythmic marches and dances are beneficial to sub-normal children, even. These exercises give control of the limbs and teach courtesy and emotional self-control. The manual is illustrated and contains the music as well as the words of typical dances and games.

KOREAN FAIRY TALES. William Eliot Griffis. Illustrated. T. Y. Crowell Company. Price $1.60 net.

A very interesting collection of stories that reveal the thought and life of a far-away country, where dwell people who have for many centuries pursued their own original ideals according to customs all their own. Yet, underneath these charming stories, one can feel our common humanity, however we may differ in our modes of expression.

COMPOSITION FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS. By Joseph M. Thomas, Frederick A. Manchester and Franklin W. Scott. The Macmillan Company.

This is a substantial manual of 577 pages, intended for Freshman year students. It is based upon and includes the best of the actual introductory courses of three of the larger unversities. An introductory preface to students engages attention and interest. Chapter two studies composition as a whole, with special reference to exposition. Chapters follow on the paragraph, the sentence, the word, argument, description, narration, the story; and there is an "epilogue" to teachers, and appendices on exposition, argument, description, narration, and a "handbook." The very effective classification of the contents of this volume makes it alluring, comprehensible, and proportionately valuable.

FOUR NEW MOTHER GOOSE PUZZLE GAMES MY CHILDREN LOVE, is the title of a series of illustrated cards, nine and a half by fifteen inches, with a large colored picture at the top, four large-letter rhymes in the middle, and a picture and four lines of nursery rhymes at the bottom, on one side; and on the other, a complicated diagram to be cut out, also four lines of script, and below that, directions for using the cards. Published by Noble and Noble, New York, N. Y., and sold in a handsomely decorated box, this collection is sold at the low price of 50 cents. It is proving very popular for "busy work" with the children of the earlier grades. The art work has been well done. The pictures make the familiar nursery rhymes vivid and impress them upon the memory and the imagination. Directions are given for cutting the cards and arranging the sections in different combinations. A "happy thought" for both teachers and parents, and, especially, for the little folks.

LIVES OF POOR BOYS WHO BECAME FAMOUS. By Sarah K. Bolton. Illustrated. Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Price $2.00 net.

Since this book first appeared there have been numerous reprints. This is sufficient proof of its interest and value. The present edition contains a considerable amount of new material, covering typical examples of lives of "potters, painters, mechanics, inventors, composers, musicians, preachers, soldiers, statesmen, explorers," etc. Besides being inspirational to young people the book will prove of real value to teachers, preachers and others who have to talk frequently to boys and girls, from the school platform, the pulpit, or the lecture room. No argument is more telling than the argument "ad hominem."

PROBLEMS OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL. By Henry Reed Burch, Ph.D. and S. Howard Patterson, A.M. The Macmillan Company.

The main outlines of the subject are here presented and furnish the materials for an introductory course of study of American life. The book is intended for secondary school use. At the head of each chapter a clear outline or analysis of the contents of the chapter is given, which is most helpful to the student or reader; and black-face type paragraph headings and smaller indented marginal designations of special subjects still further aid the reader or student in finding and remembering. The chapters close with questions for discussion, topics for special report, and references. There are numerous illustrations, making the volume altogether complete, usable and satisfactory.

DUCATION

Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature

VOL. XLIII.

of Education

MARCH, 1923

A Philosophy of Moral Education for
Students, Teachers and Parents

CARROLL D. CHAMPLIN, SOUTHWESTERN
NORMAL SCHOOL, CALIFORNIA, Pa.

No. 7

NLY those who are secluded from the varied and precarious contacts of our seething social order are indifferent to the need and movement for greater emphasis on moral training. Numerous programs and courses have been suggested for this indispensable field of work, and material good has been accomplished in many communities, but there is a place at the present time for a philosophical consideration of some of the fundamental concepts and ideas involved in any practical and workable theory of ethical education. To neglect the training and exercise of our highest human qualities, the spiritual and the ethical, is to fail to fulfil the noblest and most urgent of aims in our entire program of education. Such an abbreviated and short-circuited training is unfair to youth and dangerous to society; and blessed is that instructor who voluntarily and continuously stresses the moral aspect of the teaching material employed in the daily work of his classroom.