A METHOD FOR TRAINING PRIMARY READING. By Lida Brown McMurry. The Macmillan Company. Price 50 cents.

Teachers of beginners' classes would do well to read this little book for its suggestiveness, whatever may be the system they are using.

HEROES OF PEACE. By F. J. Gould. Illustrated. Harper and Brothers. Price 75 cents.

Very timely. Highly commendable for supplementary reading. Describes conquests of nature, heroism for the good of others, the long struggle to lay the Atlantic cable, the establishment of the Red Cross, etc. Shows the children how to fight and be manly, without quarrels or war.

THE HARVARD-NEWTON BULLETINS: No. I, A School System as an Educational Laboratory. By William S. Learned, Ph. D. No. II, Scales for the Measurement of English Compositions. Cambridge: The Harvard Press. Highly professional monographs of real value to students of education and to teachers.

The

STATE AND COUNTY EDUCATIONAL REORGANIZATION. Revised Constitution and School Code of the State of Osceola. By Ellwood P. Cubberley. The Macmillan Company. Price $1.25.

This is a new book in the series known as the Text Book Series in Education. It presents an ideal educational system for the hypothetical state of Osceola. The author is an authority on educational subjects.

MODERN PROBLEMS OF THE HOME, SCHOOL AND CHURCH, SOLVED BY CHRISTIAN PEDAGOGY AND SOCIOLOGY. By G. C. H. Hasscarl, Ph. D. Published by the author at Verona, N. Y.

A thoughtful discussion of educational problems from the Christian standpoint.

THE TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS. By Raymond E. Manchester, A. M., Professor in the State Normal School, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Syracuse. C. W. Bardeen.

A very able exposition of the place and value of Mathematics in the curriculum, together with helpful suggestions for teaching the subject.

ELEMENTARY HUMAN BIOLOGY. By James Edward Peabody, M. A. and Arthur Ellsworth Hunt, Ph. B. The Macmillan Company. Price 65 cents, net.

Effectively presents the argument for good food, pure air, varied exercise, sufficient sleep and cleanly surroundings.

PEACE AND REFORM, 1815-1837. Complied by A. C. W. Edwards, London. G. Bell and Sons. New York, The Macmillan Company. Price 35 cents.

One of a series of English History "Source Books,"-a valuable adjunct to the history lesson.

HOW THE FLAG BECAME OLD GLORY. By Emma Look Scott with illustrations by A. C. Valentine. The Macmillan Company.

A pretty little patriotic supplementary reader that will be popular in the grades at the time of our national holidays.

COMMERCIAL EDUCATION IN GERMANY. By Frederic Ernest Farrington, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Educational Administration, Teachers College, Columbia University. Author of "The Public Primary School System of France," "French Secondary Schools," etc. The Macmillan Company. Price $1.10.

HEATH'S ENGLISH CLASSICS. Goldsmith's "The Traveller" and "The Deserted Village" and "Gray's Elegy In A Country Churchyard." Edited by Rose M. Barton, M.A., Teacher of English, Wadleigh High School, New York City. D. C. Heath & Co. Price $.25.

A COURSE IN HOUSEHOLD ARTS. By Sister Loretto Basil Duff, Sc. M., College of St. Elizabeth, N. J. Whitcomb & Barrows. Price $1.10 net.

This volume covers in a thorough way a practical course for beginers in Home Economics, and yet it is as well adapted to high as to grammar school classes. Each topic is fully treated. The processes are not merely suggested, their reason and method are given.. The chapters are rich in practical recipes. The course has been fully tested in the classroom and has not been found wanting. F. H. P.

LIPPINCOTT'S PRACTICAL ARITHMETIC. By T. C. Bruff, C. H. Hayden and L. E. Watkins. First Book and Second Book, each net, $.40.

In this title the adjective 'practical' is not a misnomer. The interesting and varied devices have one aim-the early development of number concepts. The why and the how underlie every bit of the work. Reviews and drill are frequent, to gain accuracy and readiness. It is a most helpful work.

DOG OF FLANDERS. By Ouida. Four full page illustrations in color. Net, $.50.

An exquisite story of child life in Belgium, in which the people are portrayed with skill, one of the finest fruits of Ouida's genius. Children will never forget the faithful dog, Patrasche, nor his little master, Nello. This is a large-type and beautiful edition of the book.

MACMILLAN SPANISH SERIES

THREE

NOW

READY

Prepared under the direction of Professor Frederick B.
LUQUIENS, Sheffield School, Yale University.

Fuentes and Francois' A Practical Spanish Grammar
is a simple, well-organized beginner's book, planned to give the
student a practical knowledge of Spanish based upon an under-
standing of fundamental grammatical principles.

Luquiens' Elementary Spanish-American Reader

is made up of short, simple selections, well graded as to difficulty. Questionnaires and composition exercises are included.

Supple's Spanish Reader of South American History

provides a series of spirited sketches in which the pupil is introduced to the important events and characters in South American history. Questionnaires, composition exercises, notes and vocabulary.

MACMILLAN GERMAN SERIES

THREE

Prepared under the direction of Professor CAMILLO VON
KLENZE of the College of the City of New York, and
DR. HENRIETTA BECKER VON KLENZE.

Hillern's Höher als die

Kirche

Edited by STEPHEN L. PITCH-
ER, Soldan High School, St.
Louis.

Von Wildenbruch's Das
edle Blut

Edited by JOHN C. WEIGEL,
University of Chicago.

Paraphrases and footnotes in simple German on the page with the text form the basis for German discussion to take the place of translation of text.

Vocabulary building by means of word groups, drill on idioms, and sentence construction.

Passages for free reproduction, presenting a systematic review of the main grammatical principles.

Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature

VOL. XXXVII.

of Education

APRIL, 1917

Child Psychology in the Normal School

No. 8

BY LAWRENCE AUGUSTUS AVERILL, A. M., PH. D., DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY IN THE MASSACHUSETTS STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, WORCESTER, MASS., AND EDITOR

OF THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SCHOOL HYGIENE.

T

HERE appears to be at present no uniform aim of normal school courses in psychology. Here, for instance, is a teacher who is content if at the end of his course he has succeeded in presenting in his lectures a complete elementary symposium of the various mental processes from perception to reasoning and judgment. He is apparently little con•..........................................cerned as to the professional application which his students may be able to make of their store of information when they actually enter the schoolroom. Here is a second teacher who, as a supplement to the time-honored lecture method, has introduced into his normal courses considerable work in experi⚫mental psychology, beginning with the exploration of the dermal senses and concluding with the various perception and association experiments. He too is little exercised as to the relationship which his work has with the problems and the needs of the teacher in the class room.

The new normal school psychology, however, is neither of these. It is primarily the psychology of childhood, of the development of the child mind and soul. In this respect, normal school work in psychology differs vitally from college courses in general and experimental psychology, since necessarily the ends of the college courses are so essentially different. Higher courses in psychology are not designed for teachers of young children in the grades;