Chemistry, Animal Husbandry, Horticulture, Home Economics, are one and all vital subjects for the prospective farmer and his family. The best home missionaries for this field are boys and girls born and reared in the country, who have learned to love the country, and who will delight to take back to the country larger ideals of life and its possibilities. More than any back-to-the-farm movement, we need today a stay-on-the-farm reform which, while allowing a due shifting about, as stated above, will, at the same time, offer due encouragement to the would-be farmer man and woman.-Contributed by WALLACE N. STEARNS, Jacksonville, Ill.

IS INTELLIGENCE INHERITED? The "old conclusion, that the highest intelligence comes out of stock that is highly developed on both sides," is reached by Grace Allen in a recent study, made for the Eugenics Record Office of the Carnegie institution, of the families of a group of 49 children showing a high intelligence quotient. The study was undertaken to aid in discovering how far superior intelligence is a family characteristic, and covered race and nationality, age, occupation and education of the parents, rating of the homes, neighborhood conditions, mental status in the families, and fecundity and sex rates.

CORRESPONDENCE COURSE IN MOTHERHOOD. Prospective mothers may enroll for a course of 15 lessons offered by the Massachusetts State Departments of Health and Education, through the State Division of University Extension, 217 State House, Boston, for a fee of $4.00. The topics treated include prenatal care, practical preparations for confinement, care of the baby and of the nursing mother, the sick baby, and weaning. Papers written by the students will be corrected with necessary comments and suggestions by an experienced physician of the State Public Health Service.

COMMUNITY BACKYARD PLAYGROUNDS. A new plan for playgrounds in sections where children have no play space other than city streets, is suggested in the recent appeal of the Park Commissioner of Brooklyn, N. Y., to remove fences between back-yards and permit use of the space thus afforded as community playgrounds. The Park Commission offers by way of illustration a survey made by its officials of a typical residential block, with a design for a playground layout, and will co-operate with suggestions for laying out the grounds and advice in regard to equipment.

DECREASE IN JUVENILE DELINQUENCY REPORTED FROM ENGLAND AND BELGIUM. Following close upon the Children's Bureau figures indicating that juvenile delinquency is decreasing in the United States, come reports from London and from Belgium showing a falling off in the number of juvenile offenders. According to the Commissioner of Police of London, the decrease has been continuous in recent years and is still going on. The number of persons dealt with in the juvenile courts of London for indictable offenses during 1925 was 1,151 as against 1,276 in 1924, and more than one-half of the cases were placed on probation. The director of the Child Welfare Bureau at Brussels reports that juvenile delinquency in Belgium has decreased in the last 12 years. In 1913 the number of minors reported to the office of the public prosecutor was 17,177; in 1923 it was 13,523, and in 1924 it was 12,965. The decrease in the number of cases of vagabondage, habitual begging, stealing and swindling was particularly noticeable. The report attributed this decrease to higher wages and general improvement in economic conditions since 1913, and also to the laws providing for special court jurisdiction for minors, for probation, and for special educational measures for neglected, wayward, and delinquent children.

DAY NURSERIES FOR CHILDREN OF ENGLISH FRUIT PICKERS. Newnham and Girton college girls have formed an organization for the purpose of aiding the migratory fruit pickers, usually from the poorest sections of London, who "follow the fruit" during the harvest season. The pickers, many in family groups, are housed in temporary accommodations provided by the farmers. For the babies and little children, in the Bisbech district of England, day nurseries are conducted during the harvest season. Some of the children of the migratory pickers, it is reported, go to work at the age of seven.

CHILD WELFARE IN GREECE. The child welfare law adopted April 14, 1926, provides for the appointment of child-welfare commissions in cities and towns in Greece. Every city or town is required to provide funds for the maintenance of infants deprived of mother's care and for the women nursing them. Physicians or midwives attending births must report them within 24 hours. All births must be registered by the police and lists sent weekly to the local child welfare commission, which must investigate and aid needy cases.

TO THE READERS OF EDUCATION!!!

Please note that we, the Publishers of this Magazine, are constantly in touch with and in receipt of EDUCATIONAL BOOKS of all kinds, from all Publishers. Look over our Book Review pages from month to month, and send us, or the Publishers named, your orders for single copies,— or for larger orders. We are always at your service and it will be a real pleasure to forward your interests in every way. If convenient to call at our Offices we can often show you such books as Encyclopaedias, Unabridged Dictionaries, Atlases, and other reference books, new or second-hand, at very low rates. Here you can pick up many of the new books, especially books for all grades of Schools, from the Kindergarten to the University. Your calls at our Boston headquarters will always please us; and if we do not have what you are wanting in the book line, we will gladly get for you, promptly—and at lowest rates to Teachers-whatever you may please to order.

We are filling many large and small orders for all kinds of Periodicals, also. If you take several, or wish to combine with other teachers and "Club" your subscriptions, we will quote the very lowest rates on such as you may specify.--THE PUBLISHERS OF "EDUCATION."

RURAL HIGH SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION AND SUPERVISION. By Julius Boraas and George A. Selke. With an Introduction by Lotus D. Coffman. D. C. Heath and Company.

This is a book that should be carefully read by teachers as well as superintendents and principals. The first chapter on the growth of rural schools-is heartening. The chapters on the adjustment of school administration and supervision to rural life, and the one on direction of health work, are worth the price of the book to any community or teacher. Superintendents should read the one on the improvement of teachers in service. The entire subject of rural school administration, supervision and teaching is admirably covered; and one lays down the volume with a new impression of the vast responsibility and opportunity that is afforded to all those who attend, or are engaged in teaching and administration in the rural schools.

A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. By Edward Albert, M.A. Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Price $1.00 net.

It is refreshing to find a book on such a vast subject, that gives so distinct an impression of essentials in so comprehensive a manner. It would well pay any student or teacher to go through this volume, either as an introduction to, or as a review of, a more comprehensive book upon the subject. It is far more than an outline; yet it does not stagger one, as do some of the voluminous treatises on English literature.

MORE ABOUT SUMMER CAMPS. Training for Leisure. By Henry Wellington Wack, F.R.G.S. Published by The Red Book Magazine. With an appreciation by Hon. Gifford Pinchon. Price $2.00.

The author is well qualified to write about this fascinating subject, since he has in the past three years visited 412 organized summer camps, studied the methods and results of this movement, and drawn conclusions about the main subject and its relations to education and health, and become an authority on recreation and training for young people. His chapter on Happiness as an educational objective is by itself alone well worth the price of the book. Parents as well as teachers should read this volume.

HOW TO DESCRIBE AND NARRATE VISUALLY. By. L. A. Sherman, Ph.D., LL.D. George H. Doran Company, publishers, New York, N. Y. Price $2.00.

This book presents a new method for acquiring the art of forceful and attractive writing, whether descriptive, narrative, argumentative, or expository. It is a book of nearly 400 pages, covering many phases of the subject. As a text book for English classes it should secure many class "adoptions" in schools and colleges. Its logical arrangement, its attractive style, which is sure to secure attention, and its comprehensiveness, are admirable. At the close of most of the chapters there are suitable "Exercises" which enable the reader or student to fix in mind the teachings of the text. The Table of Contents readily enables the student or reader to find help on any variety of composition, such, for instance, as descriptive telling, sense appeals, exposition, argumentation, characterization, moods and emotions, etc. The book is not only for scholars and classes. It will help the general reader to enlarge his influence with others and to understand what he reads and hears,—in short to become more intelligent and to develop a more distinct and effective personality.

JOHANN HEINRICH PESTALOZZI. Der Mensch Der Philosoph und Der Erzieher. Von Friedrich Delekat. Verlag Quelle & Meyer Leipzig.

This book, written in German, is an estimate of one of the world's great teachers. The frontispiece is a remarkable and most expressive portrait of the great pedagogue. The face combines the elements of firmness, kindliness, insight, and earnestness. The text is a clear presentation of the character and work of this great teacher and pioneer in the realm of education.

Two new books, published by the Philadelphia publishers, The P. Blakiston's Son & Company, will be welcomed by Science teachers. They are: HOW TO TEACH GENERAL SCIENCE, by J. O. Frank, A.M., Professor of Science in the Wisconsin State Normal School at Oshkosh; and A DIGEST OF INVESTIGATIONS IN THE TEACHING OF SCIENCE IN THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS, by Francis D.

Curtis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of the Teaching of Science, University of Michigan, and Head of the Department of Science in the University High School. The latter book includes the research investigations published prior to 1925.

These books are a real addition to the meager supply of suitable books on the market dealing with the subject of Science as a school subject. No subject is more interesting, valuable and vital to human interests than this. The average boy or girl may safely be appealed to by a course in Science and may be shown by such a course many essential, valuable and practical principles and facts that concern daily life; and, at the same time, the probability is that such studies will awaken the mind and create a love of study as few other subjects are likely to do. The incentive to such studies must come out of the belief of their importance and pedagogic value. No teacher or school official, or college or university president could fail to be profited and inspired by what is authoritatively set forth in these books. Let us exalt such courses in our public schools! Their intellectual value is as great as that of any of the subjects taught; and practically, they are useful every day from the cradle to the grave. These books suggest many important problems, exercises and experiments which can be given to the class. They will promote interest and intelligence. The books will fill a deeply-felt need in the schools and should have extensive adoptions.

DESCRIPTIVE AND NARRATIVE PROJECTS. A Textbook for College Classes. By D. Davis Farrington. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, $2.50.

This is an admirable book that presents description and narration as phases of life experience, and advocates school and college use of them in preparation for future activities. "In colleges" says the Publishers' note, "this method is new and promising. It seizes for its subject-matter upon the interests and activities of the student, the college, and the community, and utilizes them as problems to be thought out and executed." Students will appreciate the opportunity to work along this line and will find the suggestions of the book to be most interesting and stimulating.

THE SMEDLEY & OLSEN SERIES. WORDS. Designed by Norman H. Hall. Hall & McCreary, Chicago.

WORK AND PLAY WITH Pictures by Matilda Breuer.

A Set of 82 charts in color (many of them), arranged in the same sequence as the lessons in the pupils' books. The pupils' charts are 48 cents for the pictures to be colored. The Teachers corresponding book in colors $2.80. The set will be sent on approval, and may be returned