Book Reviews

From The Macmillan Company: AMERICAN HISTORY FOR GRAMMAR SCHOOLS. A revised edition. By Margaret Stockman Dickson. This is a comprehensive treatment of the subject, in a book of over 600 pages, exclusive of the several appendices, etc. Fully illustrated with portraits, scenery, important events, etc. The text treats the subject under the following sections, viz.: Part I, From the Old World to the New; Part II, The Birth of the Nation; Part III, The Nation's life and Progress. There are some sixteen Maps.

By the same publishers: PRACTICAL PSYCHOLOGY. By Edward Stevens Robinson. Sub-title, Human Nature in Everyday Life. This is one of the books in a series of "Textbooks in the Social Studies" series, edited by Leon C. Marshall and Leverett S. Lyon. The subject is presumed to be taken up in the latter part of the ordinary high school

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By the same publishers: ELEMENTARY ECONOMICS, giving the principles with a short sketch of economic history. By Richard T. Ely and the late George Ray Wicker. Fourth edition, enlarged by a revision by Samuel J. Brandenburg in collaboration with the senior author.

Also, by the same publishers: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF RHETORIC, being a study of words, sentences and paragraphs, by Helen J. Robins and Agnes E. Perkins. A third revised and enlarged edition.

And again by the Macmillan Company: A GUIDEBOOK IN ENGLISH. By Helen E. Sandison and M. L. Lowery. An excellent high school text.

And, by the same publishers: A TALE OF TWO CITIES. By Charles Dickens. Introduction by Walter C. Phillips (University of Cincinnati). This last is a volume in The Macmillan Company's "The Modern Reader Series."

RATIONAL BOOKKEEPING AND ACCOUNTING. By Albert G. Belding and Russell T. Greene, A.M. The Gregg Publishing Company. These books, just published, bring to the student the very latest improvements and methods in their subjects. Business colleges and schools and the private, individual students should carefully study them, so as to be really up to date.

REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS for the Fiscal Year ending in June, 1926. The Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.

GOOD READING. Two Volumes. A First and Second Reader. By John M. Manly, Edith Rickert and Nina Leubrie, with Illustrations by Elizabeth M. Fisher. Scribner's Sons. Illustrated. These are attractive Readers; and the first thing the teacher, the child, or the reviewer notices is an important lesson on the inside page of the cover, which reads in part as follows: "What the Book says: Please keep me clean. I don't like dirty pages. I don't like scribbles on my pages. I don't like to be torn. I don't like to drop into the mud. I don't like to lie out in the rain. I don't like to have my back broken. I don't like to have the corners of my pages turned down." If the impression and teaching continues throughout the series to be as definite and commendable as this, we believe that it will be useful. And, just as we have said the above, we welcome the arrival of the Primer and the Third Reader, which are as good as the others. The series is an attractive with excellent type, interesting illustrations, wholesome and instructive subject-matter, and tasteful binding. We unreservedly recommend these books to the Text-Book Committee of any elementary school system anywhere.

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HISTORY OF MANUAL AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION UP TO 1870. The Manual Arts Press, Peoria, Illinois, publishers. Charles Alpheus Bennett, author. Price $3.50.

This large volume containing 461 pages and fully illustrated-covers the history and development of the manual arts in a very thorough manner. The author claims that students and workers alike should become familiar with the past as well as with the present phases of the subject, if they would really know its fundamental principles and would master its technique. The chapter headings bring out the essential groups of facts of the history of the subject and are very helpful if any one wishes to get at a particular phase of some problem. There are 48 excellent and suggestive illustrations. This edition brings our knowledge and practices in the art and its teaching right up to the minute.

From the same Publishers as above, we have PRIMARY INDUSTRIAL ARTS. By Della F. Wilson, B. S. Price $2.00.

"The aim has been to treat each of the various arts and industrial art subjects now taught in the schools in such a manner that the teacher inexperienced in manipulative processes may have suggestions and directions for assisting her pupils in construction work and related study." This book also has numerous and excellent illustrations. Together the two books will supply the needs of students of the industrial arts in the schools for a long time to come.

From Houghton, Mifflin Company: PSYCHOLOGY OF THE KINDERGARTEN CHILD, by L. A. Pechstein, Ph.D., and Frances Jenkins, B.S. This volume should be read by every teacher of young children, whether in the home or the school. It coordinates the Kindergarten with the school that follows, and enables the child to develop harmoniously and without any "jolts" in passing through the successive years in the school systems. It is of value, thus, to all teachers-and to parents as well-and most of all, to the children themselves, as used and applied in daily contacts in the several stages of the curriculum. We have passed the age when any one who would was allowed to teach in most any grade. Now, we insist on special preparation for specific grades. And we also approve of all teachers being trained in the theory of education as a whole. The first steps are as important as the last. Therefore, a book like this one makes excellent reading, alike for the Kindergartener and the College President. The work of both will be better and more comprehensive for its reading.

From Little, Brown and Company: THE GAY KITCHEN. By James Woodward Sherman. Illustrated by Eugene Wireman. A real, homelike First Reader, dealing with things and thoughts that little folks see and think. Large type, excellent illustrations, things shown and experiences related that the average child can understand, as they are within the range of his own observation.

In the Macmillan Company's "Elementary Latin Classics" series we have LEGENDS OF ANCIENT ROME, from Livy; adapted and edited by Herbert Wilkinson, M.A., with an Introduction by Mary L. Breene. An admirable pocket-size book for class use or the individual reader.

From the same publishers: ESPANA. By A. Marinoni, A.M. (University of Arkansas). Fully and admirably illustrated.

Also from the Macmillan Company, LA CASA LOS CUERVOS. Por Hugo Wast. With Exercises, Notes and Vocabulary by Ernest Herman Hespelt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Spanish in New York University. It is a Spanish Grammar and Reader, and will be useful in these days, when we are so closely related in ways of commerce and friendship with our near-by foreign neighbors to the south of us. And, by The Macmillan Company, a charming book by Henry Park Schauffler, entitled ADVENTURES IN HABIT CRAFT, a book the sub-title of which is, "Character in the Making." The author's adventures with young folks were typical, and will interest and aid any parents who are trying to measure up to their duties and privileges in bringing up their children. There is an Introduction by S. Parkes Cadman, D.D., S.T.D. The price is $2.00.

From T. Y. Crowell Company: THE AMERICAN RACE PROBLEM By E. B. Reuter (University of Iowa). $2.75 net. This book is a notable addition to Crowell's Social Science Series. It is an interesting book to any thoughtful American, or, perhaps we should rather say, to every thoughtful human being. The story of the abduction of the African Negro from Africa, against his consent and interests at the time, was the great crime of modern days. This book shows how he has won his freedom and gradually risen in the world's estimation and become a part of the great American Commonwealth. A large amount of cor

related facts and experiences are brought together in logical order, carrying implications and clarifying light and promise for the future. This book is, at last, fair and just in its treatment of a race that has been made to "pass through the fires" of misjudgment and suffering that we do not now like to remember.

By the same publisher (The T. Y. Crowell Company) we have THE FRONTIER IN AMERICAN LITERATURE. By Lucy Lockwood Hazard, of Mills College, California. $2.75. A fine study of American life and civilization from new viewpoints. The Puritan Frontier, the Southern Viewpoint, the Outlook of the Heroes of the Fur Trade, the "Golden Age" of Transcendentalism, the Heart of the West, the Day of Industrialism, the Age of Spiritual Awakening, are studied and interpreted. No real student of American history and life can afford to pass by this book "on the other side."

Also in paper covers: THE USE OF THE VOICE and THE ART OF QUESTIONING. By Superintendent William J. O'Shea. Published by the Author (address Office of the Superintendent of Schools, New York City, N. Y.). The booklet is a "composit of addresses made by District Superintendents at Conferences held with the Supervisors and Teachers in their respective Districts in February, 1926."

Also a pamphlet of 58 pages by Frank Leslie Clapp and Thomas M. Risk, published by Silver, Burdett and Company, and entitled: BETTER TEACHING. It is a Handbook for Teachers and Supervisors.

From The Gregg Publishing Company: THE NEW RATIONAL TYPEWRITING, by Rupert P. Sorelle. Also, by the same Author and with the same title, a separate book as an INTENSIVE COURSE. These books are the latest word on expert typewriting.

From D. C. Heath and Company: PRACTICE LEAVES IN ENGLISH FUNDAMENTALS (Form B), for Rapid Drills and Tests. Admirable as a means of teaching the pupil how the different parts of speech should be used.

From Thomas Nelson and Sons: BIRDS IN RHYME, by Julius King. A series of beautiful color plates of some notable common birds, with verses in rhyme that the young people can easily commit to memory. The verses are characteristic of the birds, and describe habits. A bar of music across the top of each picture is suggestive of the birds' songs.

From Little, Brown and Company we have received two excellent books for the Domestic Science Schools, viz., FOODS AND COOKERY AND THE CARE OF THE HOUSE, by Mary Lockwood Matthews, B.S. ($1.10), and CLOTHING AND TEXTILES, by the same Author. Both books are revised editions of books that have made their mark in this special field of study and practice. They are fully illustrated and furnish just the aid and suggestion that classes in these subjects, and practical homemakers as well, are constantly needing. Again, by the same publishers, THE WONDERFUL TUNE, by Randall J. Condon, Superintendent of the Cincinnati schools. This is one of the "Atlantic Readers" series. Price 85 cents. It is a book that grips the heart of the pupil, stimulates his intellect, refines his whole being, and fires him with ambitions and aspirations to live a noble life. The book is a collection of stories, legends and poems that are, every one, wholesome and worth while.

From Houghton Mifflin Company we have the following: WHAT ARITHMETIC SHALL WE TEACH? By Guy Mitchell Wilson, Ph.D. (Brown University). $1.20. This is an attractive volume in the well known "Riverside Educational Monographs," edited by Henry Suzzallo. It embodies the results of the experience and ability of the leading theorists and teachers of this fundamental study.

By the same Publishers, in their Riverside Literature Series, is THE CAROLINIAN, by Rafael Sabatini. Edited, with an Introduction, Notes, Questions for Study, by Barbara M. Hahn. 92 cents. This is a representative and deeply interesting novel,-a species of literature which should be presented to our sons and daughters in a discriminating and common-sense manner, in the school and home.

ERNEST DE WITT BURTON. The University of Chicago Press. A Biographical Sketch by Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed, which will be read by scholars and thoughtful educators in America and abroad. His life set a standard, and the entire world is wiser and better for the record he made.

LIBRARY EXTENSION. By Harriet C. Long. The American Library Association, 86 East Randolph Street, Chicago, Ill. $1.75. Tells how to establish and operate a country library.