SOUS LES ARMES. With introduction, notes and vocabulary. By Captain Marcel Moraud, Lic. ès L., lecturer in French, University of Toronto, formerly lecturer in French, George Washington University. New York: Henry Holt & Co. Cloth. 234 pp. Price, 60

cents.

For many reasons this is a noteworthy book. It appears just as our colleges are organizing units of the Students Army Training Corps, in which it is naturai that instruction in French should be given the soldiers and future officers, and is particularly timely on that account. Its material is well suited for such instruction,

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may be gleaned from the title, "Under Arms." Its editor is a gallant French soldier, formerly attached to the French High Commission in Washington, as well as an experienced teacher and thorough scholar. Most important, it is highly interesting and instructive, written in current, usable French, and containing extracts from works not readily available in this country, mainly accounts of eyewitnesses of the events described. Among the authors represented are great names like Maurice Barrès, Pierre Loti, René Bazin, Henry Bordeaux and Anatole France, and lesser, but no less honorable, ones like Paul Lintier, the author of the simple "Ma Pièce," who has since been killed at the front.

M. Moraud has aimed, in these extracts, "to give an idea of the war as it is a composite of the harshest realism and of the highest idealism; to illustrate some of its most famous episodes, and finally to give an insight into the soul of the men whose spirit remains unbroken after four years of danger, weariness, privation and suffering." The chapter headings show how this plan has been carried out: Mobilization, First Combats, The Retreat, The Battle of the Marne, The Race for the Sea, The War of Positions, Verdun, The Combatants, and In the Trenches (1917-18). There is not a "dry" page in the whole book, nor one that can fail to stir the pulses of red-blooded and high-minded American youth. The editor has provided an introduction, notes, biographical notes on the authors represented, and a vocabulary, all competently done. "Sous les Armes" should be used in every institution having the S. A. T. C., and can be used with profit in any French class.

THE TRAGEDY OF TRAGEDIES.

By Henry Fielding. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by James T. Hillhouse, Ph.D., University of Minnesota. New Haven: Yale University Press. Price, $3, net. In proportion to the growth of prejudice against German literature grows the devotion to British masterpieces. It is not alone prejudice against everything German but a sense of humiliation that in so many things, educational and scientific, we accepted German propaganda claims at their face value. So keen is the humiliation that everything German is regarded as treacherous and our own estimate is suspicious to ourselves. We have put a literary and scientific barrage between us and Germany.

"The Tragedy of Tragedies," by that master of satire, Fielding, needs little more than its title to commend it to those of us who enjoy a good-natured and very keen and searching burlesque. The play is full of allusion and reference to contemporary gossip in the literary and theatrical circles in London; it delighted Lamb, Hazlitt, and Sir Walter Scott, and was given as late as 1854 by the Harvard Hasty Pudding Society, with Phillips Brooks in the cast. The original version of this work, "The Tragedy of Tom Thumb," in two acts, was first produced in 1730 with such marked success that in 1731 Fielding elaborated it into three acts with a preface and notes, containing further burlesque and poking fun at

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dramatic criticism. Both versions are included in Mr. Hillhouse's present edition.

INDIAN HEROES AND GREAT CHIEFTAINS. By Charles A. Eastman. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. With illustrations from photographs. Price, $1.25, net. Dr. Eastman, a gentleman of these days, a brilliant platform man, a delightful writer, is at the same timethough it is not easy to believe it a full-blooded Sioux. In this volume he tells the stories of fifteen Indian chiefs, many of whom, like Sitting Bull and Rain-in-the-face, are well known to Americans. All of them were strong, brave men, many of them were famous scouts and fighters, and all were also mighty hunters, for that is the first ambition of any Indian lad, and usually the first fame he attains. Their lives, even as little children, were full of adventures, always thrilling, and frequently humorous. Sometimes they met enemy bands and only escaped by native wit and ingenuity; they had frequent encounters with wild animals, such as a buffalo or grizzly bear or mountain lion; they endured what to us seems extreme hardship in order to attain those qualities which are most admirable in the race,—fearlessness, courage, energy and physical strength and vigor. The Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls go back to these Indian tribes for many of the crafts they practice, and will appreciate thoroughly these stories of real Indians who were masters and leaders among their own people.

HAPPY TALES FOR STORY TIME. By Eleanor L. Skinner and Ada M. Skinner. New York, Cincinnati, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta: American Book Company. Cloth. 180 pp. Full page illustrations in color by Maginel Wright Enright. Price, 64 cents. Just to glance at the titles of the stories in this charming artistic book is to wish that every child might have a copy. And the stories themselves, "The Kitten That Forgot How to Mew," "The Little Pig that Grumbled," "The Rag Doll's Christmas," "The Pony Engine," these and many others are all as delightful as their titles suggest.

Most of the stories given here are new to the school reading public.

NOT TAPS, BUT REVEILLE. By Robert Gordon Anderson. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Cloth. Price, 50 cents.

If you need the most patriotic thrill in the thought of the boys who have gone "over there," read this book which you can read in fifteen minutes despite the tears. Few books have been written that have in as beautiful a way told the story of the lad who wrote his mother before he volunteered: "We know, mother mine, that death is but the door to something better."

PATRIOTIC SELECTIONS FOR SUPPLEMENTARY READING. Edited by Edwin DuBois Shurter. New York: Lloyd Adams Noble. Price, paper, 50 cents; cloth, $1.

This is a collection of many prose and poetic selections relating to the Great War, calculated to inspire a love of country and quicken patriotism.

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Meetings to be Held

NOVEMBER,

5-9: Colorado Education Association. J. A. Sexson, president, Sterling; H. B. Smith, secretary, 232 Century building, Denver.

6-8: Western Division at Grand

Junction.

sociation.

7-9: Southern Division at Pueblo. Eastern Division at Denver. 6-7-8: Vermont State Teachers' AsMontpelier. President. Margaret R. Kelley, Derby. Vt.; secretary, Florence Wellman. Brattleboro, Vt. 6-9: Minnesota Educational Association. E. A. Freeman, St. Paul. Grand Rapids, Minn., president. 7, 8, 9: Kansas State Teachers' Association meetings to be held simultaneously at Topeka, Salina, Wichita and Pittsburg. President, J. O. Hall, Hutchinson. Secretary, F. L. Pinet, Topeka.

7, 8, 9: Wisconsin Teachers' Association, Milwaukee.

11-12: National Association of State Universities. Chicago, Illinois. President, Guy Potter Benton, Burlington, Vt.; secretary, Frank L. McVey, Lexington, Ky. 15-16:

Joint Convention of New England Association of School SuMassachusetts perintendents, Superintendents' Association, Massachusetts Teachers' Association and American Institute of Instruction. Francis McSherry, secretary-treasurer of New England Association of School Superintendents. 21, 22, 23: High School Conference. University of Illinois, Urbana. 25-27: South Dakota Educational Association. Mitchell. A. H. Seymour, Aberdeen, secretary.

FEBRUARY.

24-March 1: Department of Superintendence, N. E. A. Chicago. President, Dr. E. C. Hartwell, superintendent of schools, Buffalo. Secretary, J. W. Crabtree, secretary of N. E. A., Washington, D. C.

NEW ENGLAND STATES.

MASSACHUSETTS.

BOSTON. The third meeting of those interested in the formation of a Greater Boston Classical Club was held at Boston University on November 2, Albert S. Perkins, temporary chairman. A constitution was adopted, and upon recommendation of the nominating committee, consisting of Dr. J. E. Burke, assistant superintendent of Boston; Professor A. H. Rice of Boston University and Earl M. Taylor of the Roxbury Latin School, the following officers were elected: President, Henry Pennypacker, Head Master Boston Latin School; vice-presidents, Dr. Ellen F Pendleton. president Wellesley College; Professor A. H. Rice. Boston University; Professor Clifford H. Moore, Harvard University; secretary, Clarence W. Gleason, Roxbury Latin School; treasurer, Thornton Jenkins, Head Master Malden High School; censor, Albert S. Perkins, Dorchester High School.

cent.

This is due in part without doubt to the campaigning of the State Department, superintendents, high school principals and the normal school directors to keep up the supply of elementary teachers.

It is also without doubt due in part to the introduction of two new possibilities into the school curriculum through of the making over the three-year junior high course, which has been in operation for two years. This course has been So modified as to allow students to study especially to fit themselves for the teaching of home economics or commercial subjects in the high schools.

The introduction of these courses has opened new opportunities to girls in New Hampshire, and several who were intending to go out of the state for their training have registered for these courses.

MIDDLE ATLANTIC STATES.

Orville

NEW YORK. NEW YORK. Gould Wheeler was one of the shining marks of the influenza and its fatal pneumonia. Mr. Wheeler was at the time of his death, October 16, business manager for the Students' Army Training Corps for the New York district. He died at his home in Brooklyn.

Mr. Wheeler was born in Burlington, Vt., where his father, H. O. Wheeler, was long time superintendent. He was a graduate of the University of Vermont. His life work prior to the war service was with school book houses, Silver, Burdett & Company, Longmans, Green & Co., G. P. Putnam's Sons and Allyn and Bacon, with whom he was when he went to war work.

The School Art League of 10 East 47th Street is conducting a series of lectures for young people for the present season. These talks for elementary pupils are free and will be illustrated by drawings made before the children and by lantern slides.

The high school pupils pay only a ten-cent fee to become junior members of the Art League. They are then given tickets for the four members' lectures which are scheduled on the list and also free tickets for the exhibition at the National Academy and the New York Water Color Club.

The league is endeavoring to do a helpful piece of work in stimulating

the school children to an interest in the art of the city and the great mu

seums.

The following is a list of the lectures still to be given:November 16 2 p. m., at Metropolitan Museum, for elementary pupils. "Michelangelo, the Master," by M. Rose Collins. November 23-11.30 a. m., at Metropolitan Museum, for members_and high school pupils. "Some Great Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum," by James P. Haney. November 23 2 p. m., at Metropolitan Museum, for elementary pupils. "Velazquez, Painter of Princes," by M. Rose Collins. November 30-2 p. m., politan Museum,

for

at Metroelementary pupils. "Joan of Arc," by M. Rose Collins.

December 7-2 p. m., at Metropolitan Museum, for elementary pupils.

"Marco Polo, the Great Traveler," by Louis Weinberg.

December 14-11 a. m., at Fine Arts Building, for high school pupils. "National Academy of Design Exhibition," by James P. Haney. December 14-2 p. m., at Metropolitan Museum, for elementary pupils. "Perneb the Egyptian," by James P. Haney.

NEW JERSEY.

TRENTON. Re-adjustment of the remaining educational conferences between the Committee on Education of the House of the last Legislature and professional educators was announced by Assemblyman John E. Gill, chairman of the committee.

Three conferences remain to be held, one on November 16, which will be between the committee and the staff of the State Department of Education, normal school principals and teachers, and the helping teachers of the state; one on November 23, with members of the State Federation of District School Boards, of which there are about 450 in the state; and the last on December 7, with the State Board of Education.

Mr. Gill announced that after the conference on December 7 a summary of suggestions to be embodied in the new school law to be drafted by the committee will be prepared for consideration at at least six mass meetings in various sections of the state, for the purpose of discussing the tentative draft of the new law in public and to get the lay viewpoint as to what the act should contain.

In connection with the work of preparing for the drafting of the new educational law, Mr. Gill and Dr. Calvin N. Kendall will shortly visit Albany, where they will study the features of the new educational act in New York State.

Mr. Gill will discuss the need of a new educational law at a meeting of the Principals' Association of Newark, to be held the evening of November 16.

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