and you in turn appeal only to the highest motives in your associates. You are self-reliant in difficulties; you shoulder responsibilities willingly; you can create the means necessary to attain a difficult end; you are willing to accept and able to discharge the duties of leadership in club, school, community, county or state. You are patient in the schoolroom, impartial, thorough, sociable, willing to spend and be spent. You are sought as a confidant by friends, as a leader by the crowd, as an arbiter by disputants, as an associate by the learned, as the soul of honor by the suspicious, as a playmate by children, as a companion by the timid, as an informant by the ignorant, as an optimist by the depressed, as a friend by all your acquaintances. WHAT THE SCHOOL OFFERS. Within you, not within your diploma, will rest the impress of this institution, its ideals, its courses, its faculty. The school seeks to offer you: A little knowledge. A desire for more. A trained mind, a trained hand, a strong body. High ideals-moral, intellectual, spiritual. A persistence that laughs at difficulties. The stuff out of which is built the symmetrically developed man or woman. Will you accept? Are you accepting? Are your children fretful and nervous, or cheerful and energetic? Are they resistant to disease, or do they "catch everything that comes along"? Are they gaining in weight each month? What do you know about the lighting, heating and sanitation of your school building? These and many other pertinent questions are discussed in the Child Health Program for Parent-Teacher Associations and Women's Clubs just issued in bulletin form by the Department of the Interior through the Bureau of Education. All women are potential mothers, the authors of the bulletin declare, and to all women they fling the challenge: "What are you doing to bring health, strength and joy to every child in your community ?" If children are to grow and thrive, the essentials for health and growth must be provided, and parents and children must be taught how to make use of these essentials. Close co-operation is urged between parents and teachers in forming health habits in children and in furnishing the proper nutrition at home and for the school lunch. Adequate recreation for teachers and pupils, health campaigns and methods of awakening public opinion and interesting public officials are discussed. A bibliography of useful reference books on the subject is included in the bulletin. We acknowledge the receipt of the following books for review: From THE AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY. LEADING FACTS FOR NEW AMERICANS. Ralph Philip Boas and Louise Schutz Boas. Admirable for the purpose of "Americanization" classes. MODERN WORD STUDIES. J. N. Hunt. Aids in pronunciation, spelling, analysis. CIVIC SCIENCE IN HOME AND COMMUNITY. George W. Hunter, Ph.D., and Walter G. Whitman, A.M. Fully illustrated, comprehensive, practical. ESSENTIALS OF ECONOMICS. Fred Rogers Fairchild, Ph.D. Illustrated. An important subject for everyone in America, where there is so much money being spent unintelligently. From GINN AND COMPANY. ESSENTIALS OF PLANE GEOMETRY. David Eugene Smith. Admirable in compact comprehensiveness. ESSENTIALS OF PLANE AND SOLID GEOMETRY. Same Author and Publishers. The two books contain essentials for college entrance geometry. OTHER PUBLISHERS. THE FUNDAMENTALS OF MUSIC. Karl W. Gehrkens. An admirable first year study course in music understanding. Adopted by The National Federation of Music Clubs. Essential to students of music; will make any person a more intelligent and discriminating listener. Published by The Oliver Ditson Company, Boston, New York, Chicago. THE OXFORD GEOGRAPHIES. THE THAMES BASIN. An Elementary Geography. Marie Michaelis, M.A., Edited by O. J. R. Howarth, M.A. Oxford University Press. Suggests and develops a new method of approach to the subject. The Oxford University Press, New York City. LA TOURAINE. Edited by A. Wilson-Green, M.A. Oxford University Press. LOUIS PASTEUR. Illustrated. S. J. Holmes, Ph.D. Harcourt, Brace and Company. IMPORTANT ERRATUM. In reviewing "Longmans' Historical Pictures," published by Longmans, Green & Company, 55 Fifth Avenue, New York City,-in our February number of EDUCATION,-we inadvertently gave the price, viz., 50 cents, as applying to the large set,-24 by 18 inches, in color and on plate paper 30 by 25 inches. This was altogether out of reason, and we humbly apologize to the publishers and our readers. These splendid pictures are sold at $14.00 for the set. There is a small set, 6 by 9 inches, for 50 cents; and either set gives the purchaser something thoroughly worth while, for his money. Marshall Jones Company, THE COMING OF MAN. John M. Tyler. publishers. A book that staggers the imagination in its study of the origin and development of life on the earth and the evolution of man. HOW TO TEACH READING. Mary E. Pennell and Alice M. Cusack. Houghton, Mifflin Company. A lucid exposition of an all-important suject. SHAKESPEARE'S JULIUS CAESAR. Edited by Milton M. Smith. One of the Charles E. Merrill Company's admirable English Texts series. EDUCATION MOVES AHEAD. Eugene Randolph Smith, M.A. Introduction by President Eliot. A survey of progressive methods. One of the admirable series of educational books from The Atlantic Monthly Press. Woodrow Wilson. The THE ROAD AWAY FROM REVOLUTION. Atlantic Monthly Press. OF WHAT USE ARE COMMON PEOPLE. By Heinrich E. Buchholz. Warwick & York. INTELLIGENCE TESTING. Rudolf Pintner, Ph.D. Henry Holt and Company. It treats of the rise and growth of the movement and summarizes results. ELEMENTARY SOCIOLOGY. Ross L. Finney, Ph.D. Benjamin Sanborn & Co. WE AND OUR HISTORY. By Albert Bushnell Hart. A biography of the American People, with nearly 800 illustrations. The American Viewpoint Society, publishers, New York. From Charles Scribner's Sons we have received a fine text book for students, teachers and parents who want to get the principles of psychology for use in the classroom and in the home. It is entitled EVERYDAY PSYCHOLOGY FOR TEACHERS, and is written by Frederick Elmer Bolton, Dean of the School of Education, University of Washington. The readers of EDUCATION are familiar with this name and will be interested in this book, which presents the development of this fundamental subject underlying all successful training of the young in both home and school. The book is written with a clearness of thought and lucidity of style that will make it available to all fairly educated readers; and it should be carefully studied by those who are ambitious to succeed in the profession of teaching, whether they are still studying for that work or already actually engaged in it. THE COLLEGE BLUE BOOK. Three Volumes. By Huber William Hurt, Ph.D. Published by The College Blue Book Company, Chicago, Ill. At present we have Vol. 1, 1923, giving Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences. There will follow in 1924, Vol. II, Professional and Technical Education; and in 1925, Vol. III, Music and the Fine Arts. We cannot speak too strongly in regard to these books,-from the standpoint of the institutions whose statistics are reported, from that of the student who may wish to select intelligently the college he will attend, or that of the statistician, the merchant, the philanthropist, the superintendent of schools, the high or other schools, boards of trustees, parents of prospective college students, state or church boards of education, or the mercantile world having goods to sell to institutions such as these. The entire United States is covered, and there are educational maps of all the states, tables of standards, high school statistics, etc., and a complete index. An enormous work is this. It will be of unmeasured value to the educational world. SHORT STORY WRITING-AN ART OR A TRADE? By N. Bryllion Fagin, Instructor in Short Story Writing, University of Maryland, Thomas Seltzer, N. Y. Price $1.50. Those who feel tempted to read Professor Fagin's book (and it can be done in an hour) will find it mentally stimulating, spiritually refreshing and pedagogically suggestive. It is splendid because: (1) It is courageous; it says the things we felt but dared not say. (2) It is wellbalanced and carefully considered. (3) It is succinct. The author has gotten right at the heart of fundamentals and omits the persiflage that often adds many pages to the textbook. (4) It is written by one who is himself a successful college instructor of short story writing. (5) It has excellent foot-notes and references to the better class of short stories such as those by W. D. Howells and Kipling. This feature makes it a kind of literary map of the story. (6) It upholds the older and finer traditions of literary art that prevailed before the present era of commercialization set in. It shows how literature has been degraded into a trade. The author rightly criticizes adversely the poor quality of story that floods the pages of our popular magazines and finds fault with the standards of "writing to please the editor." Instead of trying to copy O. Henry, he advises literary aspirants to study life itself, which was the method of O. Henry himself, and to write about those phases of life with which they are familiar. Not a copy of a copy, but representation of the vital problems of the individual and of society should be their aim. -Review by Henry Flury, Eastern High School, Washington, D. C. DEVOTED TO THE SCIENCE, ART, PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE OF EDUCATION FRANK HERBERT PALMER, A. M., EDITOR This number contains the Title Page and Table of Contents for Vol. XLIV. CONTENTS Our Poorly-Coordinating Moral Codes. Heber Sensenig. PAGE 585 Introductory Science as Educational Means. Percy E. Rowell. 596 Latin Coming to Its Own. E. E. Cates. . 604 Stars (Poem). Edith M. Shank. 607 Orientation by Reals Before Using Symbols. Blanche E. Atkins. . 608 The Architect (Poem). Minnie E. Hays. 617 Should Spelling Be Taught in the High School? Edith L. Hilderbrant. 618 Army Officers at Civilian Colleges. Elbridge Colby, Ph.D. 629 A School Betterment Program. Mildred V. W. Patterson. 636 641 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 |