We think this to be one of the most thoroughly worth while educational books of the year. F.H.P. STORIES CHILDREN NEED. By Carolyn Sherwin Bailey. 364 pages. Published by Milton Bradley Company, Springfield, Mass. Price $1.50. More than fifty choice stories which the teachers will be glad to get are compiled into this one volume. There is usually a Story Hour in the grades when it is necessary to have some good material to give to the pupils; with this book at hand the teacher is ready to tell many kinds of stories. The book is divided as follows: Stories That Aid To Verbal Expression; Apperceptive Stories; Sense Stories; Suspense Stories; Stories of Strongly Marked Climax; Stories That Develop The Child's Emotions; Stories That Train The Imagination; and Dramatic Stories. Miss Bailey has given full directions at the beginning of her volume "How To Use The Book. R. R. G. ENGLISH LITERATURE. By Julian W. Abernethy, Ph. D., Author of "American Literature" and "Correct Pronunciation," Charles E. Merrill Company. Price $1.35. Many books on Literature have been written for our schools, but most of them are uninteresting and dry for the pupils; it is a task for the teacher to get the pupil to study the text of the ordinary lesson. When the class gets this book the teacher will wonder what has made the change in the interest taken in the work. They will find it a readable volume and will learn something worth while from each chapter. A "Program of Work," also "Topics for Discussion and Research" are included. The volume is divided into twenty-one chapters covering a year's work for the High School. PHYSICAL LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS. By Samuel Sheldon, Ph. D., D. Sc., and Erich Hausmann, E. E., Sc. D. 40 illustrations. Part I, Mechanics, Sound, Heat and Light. D. Van Nostrand Company. Price $1.25 net. Consisting of thirty exercises, the performance of each of which will occupy about three hours, this book will give sophomore students in engineering a practical training in two semesters of work. Each experiment has been chosen for its close connection with engineering work and also for the theoretical result which may be calculated from the constants of the apparatus with which the result obtained by experiment may be compared. The volume is fully illustrated with excellent cuts and will make a satisfactory text book which should find a wide usefulness. AGRICULTURE AND LIFE. By Arthur D. Cromwell, M. Ph. Illustrated. J. B. Lippincott Company. Net $1.50. Professor Cromwell has given in this volume the gist of what he has been teaching for many years in the West Chester Normal School of Pennsylvania, in Porto Rico and elsewhere. Rural school teachers as well as practical farmers and gardeners will find helpful and stimulating guidance in its pages. Teachers and pupils alike are sure to become enthusiastic converts to the "back to the land" movement, under such inspiring leadership. POULTRY KEEPING. By Harry R. Lewis, Poultry Husbandman of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station. Illustrated. J. B. Lippincott Company. Net $1.00. This elementary treatise on poultry husbandry is full of interest for all who wish to gain knowledge of this fascinating subject. Young people can be roused to enthusiasm if it is used as a text in school, and members of the boys' and girls' poultry clubs will find it the very thing they need. It covers the essentials in a thoroughly satisfactory way. DRESSMAKING. A Manual for Schools and Colleges. By Jane Fales, Assistant Professor of Household Arts, Director of the Department of Textiles and Clothing, Teachers College, Columbia University. Charles Scribner's Sons. This is a very thorough presentation of the subject of dressmaking. It goes back to the beginnings of the art, to the time indeed when aboriginal human beings painted and tattooed themselves, or, later, covered themselves with the skins of animals, with little thought of art or beauty. The development of costume is traced, materials are discussed. Processes of textile manufacture are given as indicating cost and wearing qualities. Design and technique are fully treated. The subject is handled with competent ability throughout. No elementary instruction is given. The volume is intended for advanced students. It is well illustrated, and a very full index makes the contents readily available. Besides its legitimate use as a text book it should prove of real value to the professional dressmaker and to the practical housekeeper and mother. F. H. P. FIRST BOOK IN FRENCH. By Eugene F. Maloubier, and Justin H. Moore. The Macmillan Company. Price $1.10. The inductive and deductive methods of teaching French are combined in the arrangement of this book. The vocabulary is based on the reading selections which are made up of every day, conversational topics, and include a broad range. The essentials of grammar and syntax are carefully interwoven in each lesson, and the lessons are graduated in difficulty. In covering a lesson, frequent drills and reviews are suggested, and it will usually be found necessary to give more than one period to a lesson if the work is to be well done. The book is especially prepared to meet the needs of those who believe that a modern language should be taught and learned with all possible spontaneity. G. S. VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND GUIDANCE OF YOUTH. An Outline for Study. By Emily Robinson. The H. W. Wilson Company. Price 35 cents. Gives seventeen Programs with page references for each and also a bibliography. This paper-covered pamphlet belongs to a series of Study Outlines by the same publishers. The page references to books and magazine articles are worth the price. AMERICAN PROSE. By Walter C. Brownson. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill. This is an excellent prose book for the student. It covers the entire period of our literary history from Gov. Bradford to Lincoln. The selections are judiciously made and are representative of the periods covered. The selections from the early are more numerous than those from the later period. The notes are very helpful and entertaining. Also the indices are very complete. However, the book is not perfect. It follows too much the old beaten track. Irving, Holmes, Emerson, etc. are given much space, while scores of authors who wrote superb English prose are entirely omitted. Then, too, the book stops with 1865. No students' prose book need attempt to give "complete selections." It is enough in a book of this kind to give a “taste” of the author, but we want a "taste" of many authors. We want to see a book of American Prose for students that shall contain about one hundred authors with thumb nail sketches of each, and helpful notes. American Prose is a good book and has a useful work to perform. G. W. Y. JUN 8, 1917 EDUCATION A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTED TO THE SCIENCE, ART, PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE OF EDUCATION FRANK HERBERT PALMER, EDITOR CONTENTS Administrative Aspects of the High School of Tomorrow. Franklin W. Johnson. 605 614 622 The Modernized School Curriculum. D. W. Hering. . 630 Garry C. Myers. Qualifications for Normal School Training and The Teaching Profession. William B. Aspinwall. 636 The Supervisor and His Boys. By a Superintendent's Wife. 647 Published by THE PALMER COMPANY, 120 Boylston Street LONDON, E. C.: WM. DAWSON & SONS, Ltd., CANNON HOUSE, BREAMS BUILDINGS Price 35 Cents $3.00 a Year Any educational device which makes the pupil feel the reality of his studles is thoroughly worth while. From the earliest times the Pageant has been the most vivid means by which groups of people have expressed their ideas, emotions, and desires. It should have a definite place in the educational program. Co-operative creative work is in accord with the spirit of the present day. This kind of work is well adapted to both public and private schools of all grades. It does not depend upon the genius of the teacher. Any teacher will be able to get a response to a suggestion that the class attempt the production or enactment of such a play. The Pageant Plays briefly described below have been carefully wrought out and may serve as models for classes which may wish to create plays of their own. They have been tested by actual acting and have deeply interested both the actors and the audience. If they shall stimulate others to work along similar lines, the authors and the publishers will be well pleased. LIST OF PAGEANT PLAYS NOW READY OR IN PREPARATION: 1. All's True The work of a group of girls, ages 13 to 15, in Miss Hopkins' School, (New York) under the direction of Miss Elinor Murphy, English Teacher. Describes a scene in London at the time of Shakespeare, the occasion being a banquet given in honor of the great Dramatist on the first enactment of a new play bearing the above name. A dramatic situation is created by the burning of the Globe Theatre and the destruction of the play. Noted characters from Shakespeare's plays, impersonated by the children, come in before the disconsolate Dramatist, and reveal to him how he has charmed, Instructed and inspired all classes, throughout the ages. (now ready.) 2. The Long Road to To-morrow Presents the characters of History, Introduced by the Spirit of the Past, who shows that there is always progress. Characters are chosen to represent what the Present has cast aside, as Slavery, Religious Persecution, etc., and what the future will hold, as Humanitarianism, Democracy, Social Justice, etc. 3. A Girl's Dream of Pictures and Painters Based on a course In Art Appreciation (using University Prints). Characters from Spanish and French pictures step out of their frames and appear to a young girl in a dream. They tell of the Masters who painted them and of the claims of the schools and types of art which they represent. The above Plays have been written and will be published,-probably being ready for sale by Sept. 1, 1917. Price 20 cents postpaid, for each Play. OTHERS IN COURSE OF PREPARATION ARE: IV. A Play written for small children, In which Reading, Writing, 1 Spelling, Arithmetic, Geography, etc., are personified. V. A History Play, with the Spirits of the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries introducing respectively the explorers, settlers, those who fought for Independence and those who helped to build up the once established nation. VI. A most interesting Play, based upon Commercial Geography, presenting Land, Labor, Capital, Wages, Profits, etc., and showing how they must all work together for the highest results. VII. A Play based upon the Bible. 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