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STUDY OF GIRL PROBLEMS IN PHILADELPHIA. Organization of a non-sectarian girls, case-work agency with representatives on its board of directors of the Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant faiths, is one of the recommendations made in a report on work for girls in Philadelphia, entitled City Planning for Girls and written by Henrietta Additon. Other recommendations include the extension of existing child-guidance, psychological, and psychiatric clinic facilities; the transformation of one or more of the institutions now existing into an experimental school providing special care and training for girls of boarding-school age; and the provision of wholesome, interesting recreation in every neighborhood of the city. The study was sponsored by the Big Sister Association of Philadelphia with the cooperation of the leading Philadelphia agencies interested in work for girls.

Book Reviews

THE HEALTH OF YOUTH. By Florence L. Meredith, B.Sc., M.D. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, publishers.

This book is one of the choice volumes in the series called "Text Books in Science for Secondary Schools," edited by S. R. Powers, Ph.D., of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, N. Y. The author is Professor of Hygiene in Tufts College, Medford, Mass., and Lecturer in Hygiene, Simmons College, Boston. This is a comprehensive presentation of those principles and facts that every young person should know about and live up to, as the body, mind, and personality are growing up and establishing themselves as a unit in human society. The book is understandable,-not being weighted down with technical terms and superfluous verbiage. Its instruction is just what every citizen needs. The State as well as the individual and the family will be the better and the more prosperous if it, or a book as understandable and excellent as this one, is adopted and taught to every boy and girl in the grades or in the high school. The relation of health to behavior is made plain, without any tinge of offensive "preaching."

STORIES ALL CHILDREN LOVE SERIES. A number of delightful story-books, at $1.50 each, in tasteful bindings and admirably illustrated; published and sold by the J. B. Lippincott Company, 227 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

It is certainly wise to begin early to think out our Christmas gifts; and we cannot think of anything that combines in one, so many delights for children as do the books of this series. Here are Gulliver's Travels, The Water Babies, Pinocchio, Robinson Crusoe, The Cuckoo Clock, Mopsa the Fairy, Rip Van Winkle, The Swiss Family Robinson, The Princess and Curdie, The Princess and the Goblin, At the Back of the North Wind, A Dog of Flanders, Bimbi (Stories for Children, by Ouida), Tales of Fairyland, Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. It makes one wish to be a child again, merely to mention them. And whether you are a child, or a grandfather or a grandmother, you will delight in again reading these imperishable stories. They feed the hungry and quench the thirst of the thirsty. We shall never (we hope) get over liking them. They never fail to refresh us, to make us more human and more nearly divine as we go on through life, toward eternity and heaven.

ELEMENTARY SCIENCE BY GRADES. Book Two: A Nature Study and Science Reader. By Ellis C. Persing (Cleveland School of Education) and Elizabeth K. Peeples (formerly Supervising Teacher of Nature Study, Washington, D. C.). Colored Illustrations by R. Bruce Horsfall. D. Appleton and Company.

We cannot exaggerate the beauty, interest, and value of this book. It is one that makes study alluring and satisfying. The earth, the clouds, the trees, the grass and the flowers, the birds, the animals, things that may be made, and things that are beautiful, how they came to be, and what uses they fulfill, are here. This book will start young children aright. They will acquire the important habit of observation and learn to love the world they live in. Those who select books for elementary grades should certainly send for this book before deciding. Its vocabulary, as well as its contents, has been carefully adapted to the age of the pupils who will use it.

Treasure Trails: PLEASANT PATHWAYS. By Wilhelmina Harper and Aymer Jay Hamilton. Illustrations by Maud and Miska Petersham. The Macmillan Company. An attractively illustrated “Reader” for young pupils who have just begun to read for fun, as well as because they have to. The type is large, the illustrations are engaging, the workmanship of the publishers and printers is commendable.

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Again by the Macmillan Company: THE ILIAD OF HOMER. into English Prose" by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf and Ernest Myers. Abridged and edited by Rudolph J. Pelunis, Pasadena High School and Junior College, Pasadena, California. To add that this is another number in the Macmillan Company's "Modern Readers Series," is to commend it sufficiently to teachers and students, anywhere.

Two other books from The Macmillan Company are: THE PARENTTEACHER ASSOCIATION AND ITS WORK. By Julian E. Butterworth, Ph.D. (Cornell University Professor). A brief, yet comprehensive review It will of the organization and the aims and methods of the same. stimulate further growth and usefulness of such associations. And CONSTRUCTIVE SPELLING, for the High School. By Cornelia R. Trowbridge. Excellent points are made that will aid High School students and others to avoid pitfalls and acquire accuracy.

LA SEMEUSE. By Benjamin M. Woodbridge, Professor of Romance Languages, Reed College. The University of Chicago Press. $1.50. An interesting book for French classes.

KEY EXPERIMENTS IN GENERAL SCIENCE. By Kenneth M. Humphrey, M.S. D. C. Heath and Company. This Note Book is conveniently arranged for receiving the student's observations and notations; by means of it much will be remembered that otherwise would be forgotten; and in review work the records will be invaluable.

Another important book, published by D. C. Heath and Company, is entitled CHARACTER EDUCATION IN THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. It is written by Elvin H. Fishback, with an Introduction by Philip W. L. Cox. Price $1.24. It is pointed out in the Preface, that the schools have been conducted with the main emphasis upon the intellect rather than upon the character. But knowledge without high grade principles is oftentimes harmful rather than helpful. In an attractive way this book analyses the characteristics of boys and girls of junior high school grades. Here is explained what is fundamental to character and success in after-school activities. We believe that there is nowhere a stronger or better presentation of this fundamental matter for the consideration of the boys and girls of today, who will so soon be the men and women of tomorrow.

FUNDAMENTALS OF MODERN CHEMISTRY. By Herbert R. Smith, M.A., and Harry M. Mess, B.A. Henry Holt and Company. If "the proof of the pudding is in the eating," it is equally true that the truth and practical value of a school book is established in the using. This book is the result of fifteen years of study and trial by the authors, during which they, as well as their pupils, learned how to "tackle" the subject. Attention is concentrated upon fundamentals. Unimportant details are omitted. An outline of fundamentals and a set of test questions is the important plan of procedure. There are abundant review questions..

PICTURE VALUES IN EDUCATION. By Joseph J. Weber, Ph.D. Published by The Educational Screen, Inc., Chicago, Ill. A series of interesting chapters explaining the aims, the problems, and the methods of visual picture presentation, especially by photographs, stereographs, lantern slides. Fully illustrated and explicit as to modus operandi. A book that will be welcomed by schools and colleges.

THE EFFECTIVE COLLEGE. By a Group of American Students. Edited by Robert Lincoln Kelly. Published by the Association of American Colleges. New York (111 Fifth Avenue). Presents realities and ideals, studies the Curricula, Faculty-Student Relationships, Effective Teaching, Promotion of Scholarship, Music and the Arts of Design, Religion, Financing the Effective College, and The College of the Future.

PROBLEMS IN SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION. With emphasis on Fiscal and Personnel Phases. By E. E. Lindsay. Introduction by William F. Russell (Columbia University). The Macmillan Company $2.50. The whole subject is admirably presented. Schoolmen, and the citizenship behind them, paying the bills and reaping the benefits, should and will study this volume. It is fresh, modern, and most helpful.

By the same publishers: CHANGING CONCEPTIONS OF SCHOOL DISCIPLINE. By Pickens E. Harris, Ph.D. Modern Teachers Series. Most helpful for teachers, supervisors, principals, and also parents and all patrons of public and private schools. There was a need for a book on this subject. This book meets that need. There is an extensive bibliography, and a helpful index. The price is only $2.00.

PATTERN POETRY, Part I; and Pattern Poetry, Part I-A; and Pattern Poetry, Part II. Compiled and arranged by Richard Wilson. Three volumes, daintily printed and bound. They belong in the "Teaching of English" series, the general editor being Sir Henry Newbolt. Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd., publishers, New York, N. Y. A dainty series of poems, "standard and modern, with helps to contemplation and mild incentives to emulation." The first mentioned above is "A Book of Chosen verses, of Cogitation, Browsing, Dreaming, and Occasional Imitation." The series as a whole aims to cultivate the poetic art and inspiration, and to give specimen poems, from the modern as well as the ancient poets. Teachers of English in our schools and colleges may well examine and use them. Poetry is the heritage of the race, and it belongs to the present as well as to the past, and should be taught, appreciated and written.

LITERATURE IN THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. Book Three. By Emma Miller Bolenius. With Drawings by Mabel Betsy Hill. Houghton Miffin Company. Price $1.50. A remarkable new and comprehensive selection of worthwhile literature, covering nearly 800 pages of prose and verse. "Well-chosen objectives, intensively applied and given repeated application throughout the year. Work in note-taking, outlining, organization, summarizing, and precise writing." This book will be widely adopted because of its comprehensive meeting of modern ideals and aids in the elementary and high schools.

From The Macmillan Company we have received another volume in their "Modern Readers' Series," this time, THE SPY, by James Fenimore Cooper. Edited by Percy H. Boynton, Professor of English in the University of Chicago. The readers of EDUCATION need no praise of the books of this series. They are known and chosen very widely, among the schools of America and abroad.