KNOCKER OR BOOSTER? When the Creator had made all the good things, it seemed there was still some dirty work to do, so He made the beasts, and the reptiles and the poisonous insects; and when He had finished He still had some old scraps left over that were too bad to put into the Rattlesnake, the Hyena, the Scorpion, and the Skunk; so He put all these together, covered it with suspicion, wrapped it with jealousy, marked it with a yellow streak, and called it a Knocker. This product was so fearful to contemplate that He had to make something to counteract it, so He took a sunbeam, put into it the heart of a child, the brain of a man, wrapped it in civic pride, covered it with brotherly love, made it a believer in equality and justice, a worker for and supporter of every good thing in the community, and called it a Booster; and thenceforth mortal man has had the privilege of choosing his associates.-Anon. TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN DICTION [From the New York Herald news columns.] Ellen Hassett, six years old, was whirling through the big sewer under West Forty-seventh street, and was within a block of the Hudson River when she was rescued by the exceptionally brave work of Frank Knight, seventeen years old, an office boy. Ellen is the eldest of the four children of Mrs. Margaret Hassett, a widow. The child was playing with companions in front of her home when she started across the street. Her playmates heard her scream and saw the girl suddenly disappear into a sewer manhole, the cover of which probably had dropped into the sewer after being broken by a heavy automobile truck. They ran to the opening and looked down, but all was dark. They could hear a rush of water far down. At that moment Knight came into the circle and without hesitating he started down into the black hole on the iron rungs set into the masonry. When he was down about eight feet he called to Louis Ahnett, a friend who had remained above, to get a lamp or a lantern, as he could not see anything. Just then the lad lost his hold and dropped down into the sewer, but he was able to keep his feet despite the Far away to the west he heard the faint cries current. of the missing girl, and giving no further heed to the darkness, he called to her: "I'm coming; hold on tight!" Down that slippery tunnel, twelve feet under the street, Knight slid, managing to keep upright in the hole, which is five feet in diameter, getting closer and closer all the time to the child's cries. Finally, he came up to her and seized her dress. Then came a struggle to get back to the manhole. He was engaged in that task, holding Ellen above the stream all the time, when John McGovern started down the manhole, fearing that both the boy and the girl had been swept to the river. McGovern kept calling down in the darkness to the boy, and when Knight was halfway back he heard and replied: "We're all right; I got her." When Frank Knight had reached the manhole he handed the child up to McGovern, who had descended part way on the rungs, and McGovern lifted her up to Miss Elizabeth Treanor, who was leaning down into the hole from the pavement. Her head was severely cut where she had fallen and she was very weak. As Knight reached the street level he did not seem to think he had done anything unusual, but said he was frightened when he fell into the stream and believed he was alone in the sewer. How far he had gone through the sewer to get the child, Knight did not know. He believed it was at least forty or fifty feet. BOOK TABLE THE VANDAL OF EUROPE. By Wilhelm Mühlon, former director in Krupp's. Translation and Introduction by William L. McPherson, New York Tribune. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Price, $1.50, net. Every teacher should go to the public library at once and get this book and read it with sympathetic devotion. It is a thrilling expose of the inner workings of Germany's policy of world domination with a vivid picture of its brutalizing consequences. This book is a personal diary kept by Herr Mühlou during the first few months of the war, when he was still a director in Krupp's. The book contains many remarkable revelations. An entry on August 21, 1914, has a severely critical estimate of the rôle played by Prussia in Europe. On August 30 Mühlon wrote: "It is only today that I have at last learned to know my compatriots." A few days later: "The German press is a shameful liar." On November 10: "I have received authentic information from the front that the Kaiser declared before an assembly of officers that Germany had enough prisoners and that henceforth no more prisoners must be taken alive." The last entry is dated November 14, 1914. HEALTHFUL SCHOOLS, HOW TO BUILD, EQUIP AND MAINTAIN THEM. By May Ayres, Jesse F. Williams, M.D., and Thomas D. Wood, M.D. Boston, New York, Chicago: Houghton Mifflin Company. Cloth. 292 pp. Price, $1.50, net. The healthful school is now indispensable. The world war has aroused teachers, school officials and the public to the seriousness of neglecting this phase of education. No one in any wise responsible for health conditions can escape if he allow bad conditions to continue. Here is a book that is a masterpiece scientifically and pedagogically. Mrs. Burgess (May Ayres) has already written several books along health lines, each of which has been, both authentic and interesting. Dr. Williams is a recognized authority, and Dr. Wood, as chairman of the joint committee of the American Medical Association and the National Education Association, has focused his attention, medically and pedagogically, upon health problems for several years. The book deals with every phase of health from the standpoint of the school, especially from the standpoint of the perfection of the school plant. FORTY YEARS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN MISSISSIPPI. With Special Reference to the Education of the Negro. By Stuart Grayson Noble, Ph.D. Published by Teachers College, Columbia University. It is difficult at times to determine just what is the attitude of the southern white people toward the education of the Negro. It is frequently asked: Do southern people believe that the Negro can and should be educated? What facilities have been provided for this purpose? Is the trend of public sentiment toward providing more adequate means for his education? Is the Negro child being discriminated against in the distribution of school funds? Does the progress of the race in the past fifty years justify the efforts that have been put forth to educate the Negro? In an effort to answer these questions Dr. Noble has undertaken to trace the history of public education in the typically southern state of Mississippi, taking pains at every stage in the progress of the narrative to inquire what southern white people have thought and done about the education of the Negro. He has studied closely the social and economic conditions of the state during the forty years between 1870 and 1910, and has sought the bearing of these conditions upon the education of both white and colored races. In this study, since practically nothing has been done along this line in Mississippi, he has been forced to draw conclusions largely from data contained in the state records, in the government reports, and in a limited number of local newspapers. RURAL EDUCATION AND THE CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL. By Julius Bernhard Arp, superintendent, Jackson County, Minnesota. Yonkers, New York: World Book Company. Illustrated. Kraft paper. 200 pp. Price, 99 cents, postpaid. In war modification of education the rural school is the first to respond to the new life and new demands. There is a speedy freedom in rural schools not possible in city schools. The progress in rural schools was much greater in the fifteen years prior to the war than in any other phase of school and college life. This put rural schools in condition to speed up with less hindrance from tradition. A new rural school system is already in the making and in successful operation in ten thousand rural schools in the United States. "Rural Education and the Consolidated School" furnishes the key to the situation. So clearly, logically and convincingly are the features of the rural school and the rural community set forth by Mr. Arp that no one who reads the book can fail to understand the problem. THE LIBERTY COOK BOOK. By Bertha Stockbridge. New York: D. Appleton Company. Cloth. Price, $2. In an entirely new sense is there art in cooking. In the days gone by the only requirement of a cook was that she spoil not perfectly good materials. Now all this is changed. She has to make perfectly good food without good materials. A year and a half ago one did not expect good food. We were patriotically enduring whatever was set before us. All this is changed. There were never such rich and rare combinations as are now presented by a real cook. What a scientific dischord is in music the war denials are with the culinary artist; what rhythm is without meter and rhyme, delicacies are without flour and sugar. What our wives and daughters have learned to do instinctively some must learn from the cook book, which must be an entirely new creation. Bertha Stockbridge has had the wit to demonstrate with a thousand combinations, new to earth and heaven, and the skill to eliminate those suggestive of the other place, and "The Liberty Cook Book" is her contribution to the conservation of domestic felicity by putting a muffler on table temper and a dimmer on after-dinner disposition. Housekeepers here learn that many of the old, delicious, but expensive dishes may be prepared in a new, less expensive way, but in one that will keep the food just as delicious as in peace times. There are hundreds of recipes for preparing meats, fish, vegetables, soups, preserves. dried fruits, etc., and the author tells just how the house-wife can cut down on her wheat, meat, sugar, eggs and butter without in the least detracting from the taste, appearance or nutritive value of her meals. Sandwiches of many varieties are given especial place. : One. particularly desirable feature of the book will be found in the manner in which the recipes may be used to cover the needs of two persons, or they may be used to prepare a banquet, and the quality retain the high standard of excellence. GRAMMAIRE DE CONVERSATION ET DE LECTURE. By Daniel Créhange Rosenthal, M.A., and Victor Chankin, M.A.. instructors in French in DeWit: Clinton High School, New York City. New York: Henry Holt & Co. Cloth. Illustrated. 343 pp. Messrs. Rosenthal and Chankin have followed no particular "method," or offshoot of a method, in this new conversation and reading grammar. Their aim, as stated in the preface, is that the student should learn French as easily and readily as possible. The book is so constructed as to be adaptable to any system of teaching, direct method or eclectic. The grammar material is given in French, at first only as to terminology (Eaglish te: ns being given as well), but later in toto. There is. however, an "explication" in English in each lesson, in which the pupil's attention is called to noteworthy features of grammar and syntax. The French model passage in each lesson is a continuous passage of correct French prose, treating some topic of present interest-the class, the pupil himself, everyday life in the home and abroad. There are no detached French sentences except in the "onestionnaires." Grammar drill and verb drill have been especially emphasized, a feature which puts the work at once above the pitter-patter "direct-method" class, while the attention given to actual use of the language lends it the advantages of the best direct method texts. The "tolérances" approved by the minister of pubstruction are accepted in general, but the hyphen is retained in verb forms. There are forty-six lessons, an appendix of French phrases for setting-up exercises, French proverbs, a thorough-going treatment of the verb, the usual vocabularies and an index. A dozen illustrations of French scenes add to the interest. By Eni FIRST PRINCIPLES OF AGRICULTURE. met S. Goff and D. D. Mayne. New York: American Book Company. Illustrated. Price, 96 cents. The fundamental principles of farming are here dealt with in a simple way made of especial interest for boys and girls. The book serves as a safe guide to the teacher, and to the pupils it is an inspiration to experiment, to inquire of practical farmers and to read and study further. Treatment of live stock, an appendix of insecticides and foods and information concerning all garden and common farming growths are all included with diagrams and colored plates. THE LITTLE HOUSE IN THE WOODS. By Clara Whitehill Hunt. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Illustrated in color. Price, $1.35. The "little house" was on the Maine coast, and this story tells of the good times a little girl had there one summer. The delights that come from sailing, picnicking, bathing and all the other good times of summer life at the shore with little friends make jolly reading for our little ones.. MOTHER WEST WIND “WHERE” STORIES. By Thornton W. Burgess. Illustrated in color by Harrison Cody. Boston: Little, Brown & Company. Price, $1. "Where" does Grandfather Frog get his big mouth, Mr. Quack his web feet and where do all the other funny things come from? Here are the stories of all these little animals where they speak; dress and keep house in their own fashion, and told and pictured in the most charming manner for little ones from four to twelve years. EXERCISES FOR "METHODS OF TEACHING IN HIGH SCHOOLS." By Samuel Chester Parker. Boston: Ginn & Co. Illustrated. Price, $1.20. The author, professor of Educational Methods in Chicage University, gives as a sub-title a "problem solving method in a social science." These exercises give material for applying such a method to an earlier volume of the author, "Methods of Teaching in High Schools." Two types of chapters are contained in this book, chapters of exercises and of directions for teaching the course. A system of numbering gives convenience in correlating the former with the corresponding chapters in "Methods of Teaching." The exercises are planned to give students practice in interpreting the discussions in the textbook and in applying these to the real problems of teaching. "A War Catechism." By W. W. Earnest. Champaign, Ill.: Published by the author. "The Silent Watchers." By B. Copplestone. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Price, 10c. Price, $2. "Women as Sex Vendors." By R. B. Tobias and M. E. Marcy. Price, 50c. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co. "Home and Community Hygiene.' By J. Broadhurst. 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Textbooks and supplies are now sold by the board of education at cost plus ten per cent. at all of the high schools. over Summer school enrollment inIcreased seventy-one per cent. 1917, practically all the gain being made in the elementary grades. Associate Superintendent William McAndrew of New York City addressed the Detroit teachers September 23. HIGHLAND PARK. A new twomillion-dollar high school building, with accommodation for 2,500 pupils, was formally opened September 16. The city has a school budget of $707,000. Teachers' salaries were increased $60,000 for this year. NORTH DAKOTA. FARGO. Cap E. Miller of Milwaukee is now professor of farm management at the State College of Agriculture. MINNESOTA. State Superintendent C. G. Schulz has issued a remarkable book of 180 pages, "School Patriotism, a New York Handbook for Teachers' Patriotic League and Little Citizens' League." 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