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so many excellent people in the north and south were so irreconcilably at variance. The scene of the story is laid in Charleston, S. C., and it is evident from the details of the narrative that the author was intimately familiar with the scenery, circumstances and people so realistically portrayed. It was a time of dramatic happenings in the history not only of our own country but of the whole race. The author's conception of the world problems involved is profound and the volume awakens thought, and dignifies human striving and sacrifice. Some of the characters are creations worthy the genius of Dickens or of the most noted of American authors. The dialect of the colored race, and the characteristics of these humble, superstitious, irresponsible but kindly people, are brought out most engagingly. In particular, "Jube," the body servant of Fletcher Boynton, a noble lawyer who became a champion of the poor blacks, is as interesting a portraiture as Mrs. Stowe's "Uncle Tom." Miss Leonard is a well known and highly esteemed teacher, the author of several successful school and college text books, and a woman of wide experience and culture. Her novel deserves a place in the lists of the best and most wholesome stories for school libraries and home reading.-F. H. P.

A PRACTICAL ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY. By B. W. McFarland, Ph. D. Assistant Principal and Head of Department of Science, New Haven High School. Charles Scribner's Sons. Price $1.25.

A substantial textbook, wisely planned, ably executed, eminently practical. Dr. McFarland has departed from the conventional form in making his text; the common practice is to intersperse the theory through the descriptive matter, a laboratory manual accompanying the text. This form has been found to be inadequate. To bring about better results not only in preparing students for college but in aiding them to acquire exact knowledge of the principles involved, Dr. McFarland built up his book on the plan of developing fundamental classes of reactions in the laboratory, designed to fix certain fundamental principles in the minds of the pupils. His book consists of four parts; part I contains all of the laboratory directions; part II contains all of the very elementary theory which is absolutely necessary for a pupil to know in order that he may intelligently study the subject; part III has to do with what has been called the more advanced theory, designed especially for those pupils who expect to go to college; and part IV which gives the descriptive part supplementing the laboratory work. The volume is thus four books in one and is in every part most complete, thorough and satisfying. The material has stood the test of eight years' use in the New Haven High School: it stands, a result and not a theory.-M. T. P.

THE PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH CONTROL. By Francis M. Walters, A. M. Professor of Physiology and Hygiene, State Normal School, Warrensburg, Mo. D. C. Heath & Co. Price $1.50.

The emphasis in this work is placed on control, and health control, "from the author's viewpoint, presents a negative and a positive phase

negative in so far as the causes of disease and bodily weakness are to be avoided, positive to the extent that weak parts are to be built up, body processes improved, and the natural defenses strengthened." Insistence on corrective work on the part of the students is everywhere manifest, and this initiates them into the order of individual as well as general attention to hygiene, personal and community.

The table of contents shows that control is treated through exercise, posture, agencies that influence the chemical work of the body, adjustment in foods, avoidance of harmful substances, eonditions that affect the efficiency of the digestive organs, elimination, nervous conservation, mind, environment, the physician, how control of health is lost, health control and the personal equation, etc. Each chapter closes with a strong summary, and with a set of searching and pertinent questions that are most helpful; a further enrichment of each chapter is the addition of "health work", which embodies two kinds of effort-"that of supplying the general conditions upon which health depends and that of adapting general principles to individual needs." The work is the most practical, immediately personal, and intimate of any offered to students on the subject of health and its control. While essentially a text book it would be an exceedingly valuable household book; it is for all degrees of health and for all ages of beings.-M. T. P.

WHY WE PUNCTUATE, OR REASON VERSUS RULE IN THE USE OF MARKS. By William Livingstone Klein. Cloth 220 pages. Price $1.25. The Lancet Pub. Co.

This is the second edition of a treatise on punctuation, which was published in 1896. It is entirely rewritten. All kinds of answers have been advanced to the question "Why, and how do we punctuate?" Mr. Klein is ready to give you the answer in this volume. Every mark of punctuation is plainly treated by using many illustrated sentences at the end of each chapter. Every sentence found in Why We Punctuate is correctly marked, thus making it complete and it can be used by teacher and pupil alike to decide their question at hand. A special feature of this book is the bold-faced type, followed by the explanation of each part. It is not a book of Rules, but one of Reasons and Common Sense. -R. R. G.

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“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.

STANDARD ENGLISH CLASSICS. "Macaulay's Speeches on Copyright." "Lincoln's Address at Cooper Union." Together with Abridge

ments 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.

HEATH'S ENGLISH CLASSICS. Goldsmith's "The Traveller" and "The Deserted Village" and Grays 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.

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. Longmans, Green & Co. Price $1.20 net.

"A Midsummer-Night's Dream." Edited, with Introduction, Notes, and Pott 8vo. Cambridge University Press.

THE GRANTA SHAKESPEARE.
"The Merchant of Venice", etc.
Glossary, by J. H. Lobban, M.A.
Price 15 cents each.

MERRILL'S STORY BOOKS. "Jan and Betje." A Story of Two Dutch Children. By Mary Emery Hall. Illustrated, cloth, 122 pages. Charles E. Merrill Co. Price 30 cents.

MERRILL'S ENGLISH TEXTS. "Cranford." With an introduction and notes by Miss Helen E. Davis, Rye, N. H. 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.

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.

“THE GREAT TEACHERS." By G. Herbert Whyte. The Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, Madras, India. A comparative study of Buddha, Krishna, Christ, and Mohammad.

"LOCKHART'S LIFE OF SCOTT." Abridged and Edited with Introduction and Notes by O. Leon Reid, Principal of the Girls' High School, Louisville, Kentucky. The Macmillan Company. Price $.25.

THE WALTER-BALLARD FRENCH SERIES. "Beginner's French." By Max Walter, Ph.D. Director of Musterschule (Realgymnasium), Frankfurt Am Main Visiting Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1911, and Anna Woods Ballard, M.A. - Diplomee de L'Association Phonetique Internationale Instructor in French at Teachers College, Columbia University. Illustrated. Charles Scribner's Sons. Price $1.00.

"SCHOOL COSTS AND SCHOOL ACCOUNTING." By J. Howard Hutchinson, Ph.D. 151 pages. Teachers College, Columbia University. Price $1.50.

"THE PURITANS IN POWER." A Study in the History of the English Church from 1640 to 1660. By G. B. Tatham, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. Price $2.50.

"ALICE OTTLEY." First Head-Mistress of the Worcester High School for Girls, 1883-1912. Compiled by Mary E. James. With an Introduction by the Bishop of Worcester. Candida Rectaque. With Portraits and Illustrations. Longmans, Green & Co. Price $4.00 net.

HEATH'S MODERN LANGUAGE SERIES. Die drei gerechten Kammacher von Gottfried Keller. Edited with Notes and Vocabulary by Harry T. Collings, Ph.D., Professor of German, The Pennsylvania State College. D. C. Heath & Co. Price $.35.

Periodical Notes.

Why American children have bad manners is a question that is answered by Alan Sullivan in Harper's Magazine for August. In The North American Review for August John Burroughs writes poetically and lovingly of "Manifold Nature"; Burgess Johnson recounts, in a paper of delightful sympathy and vividness, "A Memory of Mexico." An appropriate feature for the midsummer season, to appear in the August St. Nicholas, is "The Swimming Event," an exciting story of a swimming race by George C. Lane, with illustrations by C. M. Relyea. "Lawn-Tennis for Boys" is the first of two articles by the wellknown tennis expert, J. Parmly Paret, containing all sorts of hints and instructions about the fine points of the game. It is illustrated with a series of photographs illustrating good form in tennis, especially posed for by Harold Throckmorton, Interscholastic Champion.

We call attention to two valuable articles in The Atlantic Monthly for August, viz., "The Dusk of the Gods: a Conversation on Art with George Moore," admirably reported by John Lloyd Balderston, which will arouse controversy by its substance, universal delight by its brilliance and charm; and "The Odyssey of the Sockeye Salmon," an extraordinary chapter of nature-research by William Charles Scully, deals with the mysterious migrations of the Salmon of the Northwest.