the delicate touches of the author's imagination in various experiences at home and abroad. The first division consists of fourteen poems, entitled "Echoes and Impressions"; then four "Monologues"; "Fantasies"; and then follow "Cypress Trees," "Chiaroscuro," and finally "Sonnets." Our readers will remember that one or two of the poems appeared first in EDUCATION. This book of poems will make the reader watchful in anticipating further work of Miss Babcock's. THE HYGIENE OF INSTRUCTION. By Lawrence Augustus Averill, Ph.D. $2.00. Houghton Mifflin Company. This study of the mental health of the child of school age should be carefully read by all teachers, so that they may be able to pass on to their pupils those facts and principles that should be known and adopted by every one. The use of this book in the classroom will forestall or cure many evils. It will promote scholarship and make for success and happiness. From every point of view it is a book that we can unreservedly commend to the attention of students and teachers. THE BEGINNING TEACHER. By John C. Almack, Ph.D., and Albert R. Lang, Ph.D. Houghton Mifflin Company. $2.40. A book that will certainly be adopted in every Normal School, if it is once examined by those responsible for the curricula. Helping the beginner to start right "is half the battle," if not more than half. As a textbook for teacher-training or State reading courses, it will be widely adopted. It is well worth while for any teacher to own and read, whatever stage he or she has reached in the profession. It should be in the library of every school instructor. READINGS IN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE. By Ernest Hanes and Martha Jane McCoy, formerly Instructors in The University High School of The University of Chicago. The Macmillan Company. A large volume containing nearly 500 pages and many excellent portraits of famous authors, teachers, statesmen, etc. While it will be very useful for teachers and senior students, those of elementary grades will find much in this volume that will be stimulating. The portraits are a commendable feature. It is almost as good as a personal introduction to Thomas Hardy, John Masefield, H. G. Wells, Woodrow Wilson, and others, who are presented in the volume. And there is a second volume, a "Manual" to the above, giving directions as to procedure in teaching fiction, poetry, essay, drama, the unit in magazine, and bibliographies of background readings in the various units. We acknowledge the following, viz., NOCTURNES AND AUTUMNALS. By David Morton. A book of heart poems, delicate analogies and emo tions reflected in nature and the human soul. One can make his or her applications. Because we are all spiritual beings we can feel the author's meaning, even if we cannot define it. G. P. 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The story is told especially for school pupils. An admirable book for reading classes. Again by the F. A. Owen Publishing Company, a book in the "Travelin-many-Lands" series, called MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA. By Harry A. Franck. 72c net. This is History, Geography, Reading and Language-Work combined. And we would unhesitatingly promise that classes using it will call it the most interesting book and hour in the school, when they mention it at home, after the first day or two of its use in the classroom. INFORMATION ABOUT THE MAGAZINE "EDUCATION" Established in 1880 by the late Hon. Thomas W. Bicknell, Notable American Educator. Its first article (on Text-Books and Their Uses) was by Hon. William T. Harris. The present Editor joined the Editorial Staff in May, 1892. All articles in Education are original contributions, not to be had elsewhere. Its contributors are, practically all, able and active Educators. 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"Opens a fund of information and interest to the readers in our Free Library."-Supt. V. G. Ketkar, Poona City, India. "Has rendered a great service to the cause of education through a long period of years."Joy E. Morgan, Washington, D. C. 120 BOYLSTON STREET FRANK HERBERT PALMER, A. M., EDITOR PUBLISHERS Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature Concerning the Socio-Moral Life and F MARION DOWD, STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, The Child. No. 2 ORMERLY the child was considered a depraved being, utterly corrupt, utterly sinful, to be saved from the wrath of God only by rigorous practice of a stern, joyless religion. Then Rousseau rebelled against such twisted thinking, and wrote, "Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Author of Nature, but everything degenerates in the hands of man." Now we, in turn, step ahead of Rousseau and say that the child as it comes from Nature is like any other natural force, the sun, the moon, neither moral nor immoral. It is that which is. In the child, however, is the capacity to be what society deems moral or immoral. He is born sensible, and from the hour of birth this sensibility is being affected by his physical and mental environment. How quickly we parents and teachers seek to institutionalize the child, to pour him, willy nilly, into a religious and educational mold. Ruthlessly we impose on him, our aims, our desires, and our standards. We sacrifice the living to the supposed sacredness of tradition. "Instead of educating a man for himself, we educate him for others." At first he submits dumbly; for to him the seat of |