tion, the University of the State of New York. The Gregg Publishing Company. 60 cents each. These exercises are selected from the examinations given at the University for several years past. Teachers and students will find in them abundant and typical materials for theoretical and practical instruction in bookkeeping in its modern forms. PERSONALITY. Studies in Personal Development. By Henry Collins Spillman. The Gregg Publishing Company. Price $1.20. A series of essays based upon addresses given by the author before New York high schools and repeated everywhere. They give suggestive viewpoints out into life and can be profitably used by teachers and others as bases for talks to young people. They are well worth while and will prove character-forming and inspiring reading for any person who is ambitious to make the most of himself and his opportunities. WALSH'S BUSINESS ARITHMETIC. By John H. Walsh, Associate Superintendent of Schools, the City of New York. The Gregg Publishing Company. Price $1.20. This book is thoroughly adapted to the requirements of business. It is the book for those who are fitting for commercial life. Section I, in three chapters, is devoted to recording business transactions. Section II deals with business calculations. Other sections explain properties of and processes with numbers, problems of production and consumption, financing business; and business measurements. Everywhere the pupil learns by doing. The book makes the subject fascinating. FRENCH EDUCATIONAL IDEALS OF TODAY: An Anthology of the Moulders of French Educational Thought of the Present. Edited by Ferdinand Buisson and Frederick Ernest Farrington. World Book Company. Price $2.25. This is a collection of extracts from the writings of modern French educators. The selections are designed to make clear the problems and ideals of the teachers of France, with the expectation that it may help the American public better to understand the French educational point of view. EDUCATION IN ANCIENT ISRAEL FROM EARLIEST TIMES to A. D. 70. By Fletcher Harper Swift, Professor of Education, College of Education, University of Minnesota. Chicago. The Open Court Publishing Company. The author has done well to prepare this careful study of Hebrew educational ideals and practices, as other essays on the subject are few and inadequate. He considers first the native, or pre-exilic period; then follow chapters on the period of reaction to foreign influences, the education in the family after the exile, education in school and society, and the special education of women and girls. An adequate bibliography and index conclude the volume. LETTERS TO TEACHERS. By Hartley B. Alexander. Court Publishing Company, Chicago. Price, cloth, $1.25. The Open "Letters to Teachers" is devoted to the consideration of the problems of educational reconstruction as they affect the public schools of the United States: the fundamental question which they treat is, What should our public schools do to preserve our democracy and to promote the finest Americanism? No problem is more pressing for consideration, not only by the teachers, but also by the public of America. LIBERTY THE GIANT KILLER. By Rebecca Salsbury and William H. Allen, Institute for Public Service, New York City. Cloth, 104 pages, price 65 cents. This book gives hero stories from the World War for the young folks in the intermediate grades. It is illustrated with child-like drawings. The first story gives the exciting events of the first armistice day celebration in a big city. The stories are built around the Jones family, who form a Peace Story Club, with each member of the family telling in simple language the story of one of the Allied countries, bringing out clearly the reasons for that country's entrance into the war, the achievements of its people, and a thrilling deed performed by a hero from that country. Unique titles are given to each of the six stories. Little folks who missed the parades, speeches and hero tales will love and understand these stories and will be grateful for the opportunity of reading them. Periodical Notes. Scribner's for January is a rich number. Sir Sidney Colvin contributes "Some Personal Recollections; including John Ruskin, Edward Burne-Jones, Rosetti. Robert Brown. ing, and William Ewart Gladstone. The opening article in this number is on "Roosevelt and Labor," by Joseph Bucklin Bishop. Thoughtful people everywhere will take note of The Outlook's series of eight articles on "the eight great problems before the American people." The one considered in the issue of Jan. 7 is “A Capitalist's Confession of Faith," which discusses the problem of industrial unrest, and the relationship of capital, labor and the public. Students of natural history will be interested in an article in the Scientific American Supplement for December 27, by J. S. Szymanski, on "The Behavior of Land Insects with Regard to Water." "Teaching Current Events," by J. L. Stockton, in January number of The Historical Outlook, is of value to public school teachers. An exhaustive article on "Wireless Telephony" appears.in The Journal of the Franklin Institute for January. "Overland to the West Indies," by Harry A. Franck, in January Century Magazine, s well worth while. "The problems of health in the individual cannot be met (Jesse Feiring Williams of Teachers College, "A ra HEALTH instruction, in other words, is not in itself sufficient : inspiration is also required if health teaching is to be effective. tional life aflame with moral purpose" (as Dr. Williams says at the conclusion of the same article) is the only adequate remedy for a nar. rowness of vision and lack of worthy motives in matters of health which are a menace to the welfare of the individual and the race. O'SHBA and KELLOGG are the only authors of a series of elementary school Making the Most of Life (the concluding volume of this series, entitled The No other elementary textbook in physiology and hygiene remotely approximates If these ideas interest you, why don't you examine a high school textbook by the author of the article which we have quoted? Williams' HEALTHFUL LIVING, published last summer, accomplishes for high school students what the O'Shea and Kellogg books do for pupils in the grades. New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Boston Chicago Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature VOL. XL. of Education MARCH, 1920 No. 7 The New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE MEETING. The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Association will be held in Jacob Sleeper Hall, Boston University, on Friday and Saturday, December 5th and 6th, 1919. Jacob Sleeper Hall is on Boylston Street, next to the Boston Public Library. On Friday evening, at half after six, a dinner will be served at the Hotel Vendome. The Hotel Vendome is on Commonwealth Avenue, two blocks from Boston University. The guests of honor will be President Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard University; President Faunce of Brown University; and State Senator George B. Churchill, Chairman of the Committee on Education of the Massachusetts Legislature. This is the fiftieth anniversary of the election of President Eliot to the presidency of Harvard University, and the twentieth anniversary of the election of President Faunce to the presidency of Brown University. It is important that the secretary should receive notice of your intention to be present at the dinner as early as possible, on or before December 3rd. Tickets for members will be two dollars; for those not members, two dollars and a half. Ladies may be invited. Proposals for new members should be given to the secretary before the close of the first session. HORACE DUTTON TAFT, President. WALTER BALLOU JACOBS, Secretary. Brown University, Providence, R. I., Nov. 24, 1919. |