Delayed acknowledgments of books sent for review in "Education", but for which we have been unable to find room. FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON HACKLANDER. "Der Zuave." Adapted from Ein Schloss in Den Ardennen. Edited by G. T. Ungoed, M.A., author of "A First German Book on the Direct Method." Cambridge University Press. Price 65 cents. GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. 1485-1910. A history for Lower Forms. By John E. Morris, D. Litt. Bedford Grammar School. With illustrations and plans. Cambridge University Press. Price 65 cents. EDUCATION AND THE NEW UTILITARIANISM AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL ADDRESSES. By Alexander Darroch, M.A. Professor of Education in the University of Edinburgh. Longmans, Green & Co. Price $1.20 net. THE GRANTA SHAKESPEARE. "A Midsummer-Night's Dream," "The Merchant of Venice," etc. glossary, by J. H. Lobban, M.A. Price 15 cents each. MERRILL'S STORY BOOKS. children. By Mary Emery Hall. E. Merrill Co. Price 30 cents. Edited, with introduction, notes, and Pott 8 vo. Cambridge University Press. "Jan and Betje." A story of two Dutch Illustrated, cloth, 122 pages. Charles MERRILL'S ENGLISH TEXTS. "Cranford." With an introduction and notes by Miss Helen E. Davis, Rye, N. Y. 300 pages, cloth. Charles E. Merrill Company. Price $.40. PAULINE'S FIRST READING BOOK ABOUT TOM AND JANE AND THEIR NAUGHTY FRIEND. By Lady Bell. Longmans, Green and Co. Price $.60. STANDARD ENGLISH CLASSICS. "Macaulay's Speeches on Copyright.” “Lincoln's Address at Cooper Union." Together with abridgments of the Parliamentary Debates of 1841 and 1842 on Copyright, and Extracts from Douglas's Columbus Speech. Edited by Charles Robert Gaston, Ph. D. of Richmond Hill High School and Columbia University, New York City. Ginn & Company. RIVERSIDE LITERATURE SERIES. Selected "Idylls of the King." The Coming of Arthur. The Holy Grail. The Passing of Arthur. Edited, with introduction and notes, by Franklin T. Baker, A.M., Professor of English in Teachers College, Columbia University. Houghton Mifflin Company. Price $.25. New Books in Science for High Schools GENERAL SCIENCE LABORATORY LESSONS IN GENERAL SCIENCE By Herbert Brownell, Professor of Science in Secondary Education, Teachers College, University of Nebraska. 215 pages. 80 cents. The lessons are in question form, stimulating, and correct pedagogically. Each lesson unit is presented as an investigation leading to certain definite information and the pupil is advised to investigate first. Simple apparatus only called for. Full references given to a few standard books and bulletins. AGRICULTURE THE PRINCIPLES OF AGRONOMY By Franklin S. Harris, Professor of Agronomy and Director of the School of Agricultural Engineering, and George Stewart, Instructor in Agronomy, Utah Agricultural College. 430 pages. $1.40. A complete discussion of the scientific principles underlying rural economy and the management of land, designed for schools that give more than a general course in Agriculture. PART I, discusses the principles of plant growth; PART II, the soil and its management; PART III, is a study of field crops and in PART IV, problems relating to field management are discussed. SOILS AND PLANT LIFE By J. C. Cunningham, Professor of Horticulture and Botany, and W. H. Lancelot, Instructor in Chemistry, Iowa State College. 348 pages. $1.10. A first study in Agriculture for schools in rural communities, designed to stimulate and direct the pupil in his search for the fundamental principles of good farming, and to make one the common experiences and practices of the farm. ONE HUNDRED EXERCISES IN AGRICULTURE By John H. Gehrs. Associate Professor of Agriculture, Warrensburg, Normal School, Missouri, and J. A. James, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Education, University of Wisconsin. 222 pages. $1.10. A convenient manual made up in slip sheet style, arranged to fit any of the standard covers and furnished with a generous supply of blank pages for writing in the results of experiments. Each exercise is presented in the formal fashion of the science laboratory and three or four questions are added that emphasize the principle just developed and stimulate the student to further research. Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy ana Literature VOL. XXXVII. of Education JANUARY, 1917 No. 5 The New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE ANNUAL MEETING The thirty-first annual meeting of the Association will be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, on Friday and Saturday, November 10th and 11th, 1916. Enter at the main entrance, on Charles River Road. On Friday evening at six o'clock there will be a dinner of the Association at the Hotel Vendome, Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. 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 November 8th. Tickets for members will be one dollar; for those not members one dollar and a half. Ladies may be invited. Proposals of new members should be given to the Secretary before the close of the first session. Several New England societies whose interests centre about the college and secondary school will hold sessions on November 10th or 11th at the Institute or near by. To the members of these societies and their guests the privileges of this Association are most cordially extended. ALFRED E. STEARNS, President. WALTER BALLOU JACOBS, Secretary. Brown University, Providence, R. I., October 30, 1916. 3.10 Greetings. PROGRAM FRIDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 10. PRESIDENT MACLAURIN. 3.15-The Junior High School. PROFESSOR THOMAS H. BRIGGS. Teacher's College, Columbia University. 3.45-The New Admission Requirements of the Women's Colleges. PRESIDENT MARION LE ROY BURTON, Smith College. 4.15-The New Comprehensive Examinations of the College Entrance Examination Board. 4.45-Discussion. PROFESSOR ROBERT NELSON CORWIN, Sheffield Scientific School. PROFESSOR CLIFFORD H. MOORE, Harvard University. FRIDAY EVENING. 6.00-Dinner and Reception at Hotel Vendome. The guests of honor will be President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth College, President E. T. Fairchild of New Hampshire College, Commissioner Payson Smith of Massachusetts and Commissioner Milo B. Hillegas of Vermont. Dress informal. Social half hour from 6.00 to 6.30. SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 11. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 9.00-Business Meeting. 1. Report of Executive Committee and Election of New Members. 2. Reports of the Secretary and Treasurer. 3. Reports of the Delegates to the College Entrance Examination Board. 4. Report of the Nominating Committee and Election of Officers. 10.00-The Doctrine of General Discipline. PROFESSOR ERNEST C. MOORE, Harvard University. |