THE KENDALL SEVENTH READER, and THE KENDALL EIGHTH READER. By Calvin N. Kendall and Marion Paine Stevens. D. C. Heath and Company. These volumes conclude the series and contain a large amount of interesting and valuable literary material. The pupil's interest has been carefully considered and the selections are sufficiently comprehensive to give him a real knowledge of the author's style and of American life, nature and humor. Wherever excerpts have been made they present "complete literary wholes." Study helps and suggestions to teachers are adequately and discriminately given. ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE HIGH SCHOOL IN NEW ENGLAND BEFORE 1865. By Emit Duncan Grizzell, Ph. D. The Macmillan Company. The author claims that there is no institution like it to be found in any other country. His book is interesting from the "foreword" to the last chapter. Part I treats of the origin of the High School movement; Part II, of its expansion in the period of 1840 to 1865; Part III, of the evolution of the essential features and practices of the High School in New England before 1865. An extensive bibliography is included. THE THEORY OF ORGANIZED PLAY. By Wilbur P. Bowen, M. S. and Elmer D. Mitchell, A. M. A. S. Barnes and Company. This is the authoritative manual and information book on a great and beneficent modern educational movement. It is a book of over 400 pages, covering every phase of the subject with up-to-date information and making an impression upon the mind and heart of the reader and student that augurs well for the movement which it seeks to promote. It is a book for educators and for parents. The chapters treat of such subjects as the following: The Growth of the Play Movement; The Present Need for Play; The Play Center; Boys' and Girls' Clubs; Athletics in Schools and Colleges; Physical Benefits of Play; Play and Character Formation; etc., etc. Women's Clubs and School Committees and others are at last taking up this matter of play and redeeming it from the incidental evils that unsupervised and unintelligent play has sometimes involved. No one can afford to neglect its importance to the State and the Nation. The book named is a source book for all who would become familiar with the theory and practice of play and its results in individual and the community life. From Doubleday, Page & Company: THE HEART OF THE CURRICULUM. E. Ehrlich Smith. This author regards reading as the heart of the curriculum and gives specific and constructive suggestions for its improvement. THE LIFE OF PASTEUR. Rene Vallery-Radot. Translated from the French by Mrs. R. L. Devonshire. Introduction by Sir William Osler, Bart., M. D., F. R. S. This is a "Centennial" life of Pasteur, whose personality and achivements in the realm of science in relation to human ills made him one of the world's greatest benefactors. In the School Edition of The Jungle Books, by Rudyard Kipling, Doubleday, Page & Company, we have THE FIRST JUNGLE BOOK, THE SECOND JUNGLE BOOK; also CAPTAIN COURAGEOUS. They are all in large, legible type and of reasonable price. It is worth while to introduce books like these into the school room. The children like them, and they cultivate the taste for good literature. FROM CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS: Frederic P. EDUCATION FOR CITIZENSHIP IN A DEMOCRACY. Woellner, Ph. D. An admirable book for those who are preparing to teach in elementary or high schools and who are thus destined to give to young American citizens their conception of citizenship in a democracy. LIVING AND WORKING TOGETHER. DeWitt S. Morgan. Illustrated. Another interesting exposition of sound citizenship qualifications. The public school is assumed to be a chief laboratory for the making of citizens; the study of the facts and principles here presented will aid both the teachers and the pupils to make it so. WASHINGTON THE YOUNG LEADER. By George William Gerwig. A brief supplementary reader giving the main facts in the life of the great American patriot and commander. THE FOUNDING OF UTAH. Levi Edgar Young. A series of stories of an unique and interesting human experiment and adventure in founding an American State. Victor Hugo. LES MISERABLES. Leopold Cardon et Alice Cardon. Illustrated by L. Verite. A school text, with notes, exercises and vocabulary. GRAMMAR BY PRACTICE. By Mary Wilkins Hoyt, A. M. and Florence Stevens Hoyt, A. B. A clear and helpful brief book on grammar that has worked out well, year by year, in the Bryn Mawr School, Baltimore. POEMS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Selected and edited with an introduction and notes, by George McLean Harper. A CONDUCT CURRICULUM FOR THE KINDERGARTEN AND FIRST GRADE. By several teachers in the Horace Mann School, New York. Introduction by Patty Smith Hill. Belongs in the "Series on Childhood Education." LEADERS IN MAKING AMERICA. Illustrated. Wilbur Fisk Gordy. An admirable elementary history of the United States that will make school children familiar with and fascinated by the example and deeds of the great leaders who have made our history. An instructive, wholesome and inspiring text, worthy the attention of those who make "adoptions." A copy in the home would be well worth while. SEVEN BOOKS OF CAESAR'S GALLIC WAR. Text Edition. By Joseph H. Sheffield. Sheffield Book Company, Rogers Park, Chicago, IL So printed as to bring out in bold face type the essential thought, aiding the eye and mind in readily catching the meaning of the text. This is called by the publisher and author "Syntactic Printing," and he claims that it dispels grammatical darkness, shows main verbs so that they cannot be missed, discriminates subordinate verbs, subjects, objects, conjunctions, clauses, and is the Master Key to Grammar. It is certainly something new and should give the pupil a better mastery of the Sentence. 244 pages, 75 cents. Teachers of Latin should certinly investigate this new plan by sending for this book. See advertisement on another page. CREATIVE CHEMISTRY. Edwin E. Slosson. The Century Company. A very interesting book describing many modern achivements affecting social, political and military affairs. It is clear and comprehensive enabling the reader to form an intelligent opinion of many happenings during the World War and making us hope that there will never be another similar conflict. THE PIONEER COLLEGE AND ITS BACKGROUND. (Dickinson.) By Charles W. Super. Printed for the author by Newcomb & Gauss, Salem, Mass. This monograph will greatly interest those who are fond of the study of the educational movements of the past. The place of the small college in the life of America is amply justified by Dr. Super and by many others who are referred to in his interesting sketches in this volume. DEVOTED TO THE SCIENCE, ART, PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE OF EDUCATION Some Educational Values in Laboratory Work. W. G. Bowers. . 546 556 The Measurement Movement and the Man in the Street, Charles G. Published by THE PALMER COMPANY, 120 Boylston Street LONDON B. C.: WM. DAWSON & SONS, Ltd., CANNON HOUSE, BREAMS BUILDINGS Price 40 Cents $4.00 a Year Phases of Education TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF AMERICAN Edited by I. L. KANDEL with the completion of the first quarter of the present century which has witnessed the development of a science of edu cation and in which a foundation has been laid for rapid progress in education that is to come. Each author has developed his own subject in his own way, yet a number of common principles run through This is a symposium of contributions written by seventeen former students of Dr. Paul Monroe, of Teachers College, to show their appreciation of all he has contributed toward raising the standards of scholarship and research in the study of education. The twenty-five years of Dr. Monroe's fruitful activity as scholar and adminis. trator coincide almost exactly the volume. Price $2.25 CHANGING CONCEPTIONS IN Two books in one: JEWISH EDUCATION IN RUSSIA AND PoLAND. Provides an historical and descriptive account of Jew. ish life, education, and culture in the countries which furnish us the great majority of our present Jewish population. PRINCIPLES OF THE JEWISH CURRICULUM IN AMERICA. Discusses the problems that confront Jewish education today, enunciates the educational solution, and indicates the principles that govern their types of curriculum that should result. |