Man's Bible. The present edition is the fourth to appear in a little more than a year. This fact bears testimony to the appreciation with which the book has been received. Mr. Courtney's work is scholarly and judicious in the extreme, and his selections from the Bible, as well as his classification of them and his form of printing, are admirable and most helpful. This is the sort of book that ought to be read in the American secondary schools under the terms of the new uniform college entrance requirements in English. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1909. 414 p. $1.25.)

L'Istruzione popolare nelli Stati Pontifici (1824-1870) is a careful and thoro-going piece of historical work which deals with a subject-matter almost unknown in the United States. The author is E. Formiggini-Santamaria. He has traced with care the conditions of the Italian schools in the Papal states during the period immediately preceding the political unification of Italy. His book is indispensable to a full understanding of this period. (Bologna-Modena: A. F. Formiggini, 1909. 290 p. 6L.)

A useful but rather elementary book, entitled The elements of hygiene for schools, has been compiled by Miss Isabel McIsaac, formerly Superintendent of the Illinois Training School for Nurses. Teachers will be more likely to find this book useful than students. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1909. 172 р. бос.)

Book IV of the Gulick Hygiene Series is entitled The body at work, by Frances G. Jewett. It, too, is very elementary, and is apparently intended for students in the upper grades of elementary schools and in high schools. Boston: Ginn & Company, 1909. 246 p. 50c.)

R. H. Bell, in a volume entitled Changing values of English speech, has brought together a number of more or less connected essays on words and their uses. His material is familiar enough to scholars, and is attractively presented. (New York: Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, 1909. 302 p. $1.25.)

In Misery and its causes, Professor Edward T. Devine of Columbia University, brings together in impressive fashion

a statement of the grounds on which the philanthropic work of today really rests. Dr. Devine is the first American authority on this subject, and we confidently commend his admirable book to those who wish to be good intelligent citizens. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1909. 274 P. $1.00.)

Mr. Arthur O. Norton of Harvard University has done a helpful and useful work in his Readings in the history of education: mediaeval universities. Mr. Norton has applied to this field of study the method which has become familiar in every department of historical teaching. Students of the history of education will find here first-hand material from which to gain a knowledge of mediæval university conditions. The book is not only good in itself, but is a good example of a good type. (Cambridge, Mass.: Published by Harvard. University, 1909. 152 p. $1.)

Dr. Kuehnemann of the University of Breslau, who has been for two years at Harvard University as German exchange professor, has written for the Deutsche Rundschau a glowing panegyric on President Eliot and his work, which has been translated into English and published in an attractive volume. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1909. 85 p. $1.00.)

It takes some courage in these days to publish a volume of verse, and we are glad to find in Galenstock, by William Moore, not a few lines of more than ordinary sweetness and light. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1909. 115 p. 3s. 6d.)

A school algebra, by W. E. Paterson, indicates very well the difference between the English and American methods of teaching this subject. We should think it would be useful to bring such a book to the attention of American students. at least as an alternative to their usual tests. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1909. 604+lxvii p. 4s.)

The very necessary and always very difficult subject of The syntax of the French verb is treated clearly in a little book by Edward C. Armstrong. The attentive teacher will welcome the helpful typography of this attractive book. (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1909. 192 p.

192 p.

90c.)

Under the title Progress of education in India, 1902-1907, H. W. Orange, Director General of Education in India, sets out in two handsome volumes all facts, both general and statistical, that are connected with this great movement. Nowhere are the English administrative system and skill better exemplified than in the government of India. The stupendous task there undertaken may be, in some slight degree, understood by a careful reader of this invaluable report. (Calcutta: Government Printing Office, 1909. 342, 168 p. and maps. 8s. 3d.)

A second volume of Readings in modern European history, by Professors Robinson and Beard of Columbia University, deals with the period following the Congress of Vienna. Contemporary forms of government in France, Italy and Germany, are traced with especial care as are some of the main steps in the development of the modern industrial system. An interesting chapter is devoted to the Turkish Empire, and another to the expansion of Europe and its relations with other parts of the world. The book is the best of its type that has as yet come to our notice. (Boston: Ginn & Co., 1909. 541 p. $1.75.)

We welcome various editions for school use of literary selections from the Bible, and we hope now that the Bible has been definitely recognized as a book which may be read by secondary school students preparing for college that textbooks of this type will increase in number and value. Old Testament narratives, by Professor Nettleton of Yale, is very well done. (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1909. 294 р. бос.)

Professor Witkowski of the University of Leipsic is the author of an admirable little book entitled German drama of the nineteenth century, of which Professor Horning of the University of Toronto has made an authorized English translation. Students of modern literature, who wish in small compass a critical survey of the German drama of the last hundred years, will find it here. (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1909. 230 p. $1.00.)

Recitations for assembly and classroom, by Miss Anna T. O'Neill, is a book of familiar type that has a very considerable usefulness. The author has brought together a large number of familiar selections from English poetry and some capital prose. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1909. 454 p. $1.10.)

It is not quite clear what possible purpose can be served by ABC of philosophy, of which Grace F. Landsberg is the author. It is more or less of a catalog raisonnée, and nothing more. (New York: R. F. Fenno & Co., 1909. 147 p. $1.00.) An attractive title is Teaching children to study, by three New York public school teachers. Nothing is more generally neglected in education than this. Most teachers confine themselves to setting tasks and then awaiting the results of the pupils' activity, or the contrary. This book will be found very useful by thoughtful teachers in elementary schools. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1909. 193 p. 8oc.)

Principal Sir Oliver Lodge of the University of Birmingham is an indefatigable writer. On The ether of space he has done the sort of service that Huxley and Tyndall used to do a generation ago. Here in a few concise and well-ordered pages, he sets forth in understandable language all that is now known and believed regarding the ether. The book contains necessarily some mathematics, but not too much. It may be unreservedly commended. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909. 170 p. $1.00.)

The Denver Meeting of the National Education Association

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NOTES AND NEWS

The second Denver meeting of the National Education Association has come and gone. Many trusted and valued leaders who were at Denver in 1895 were missing in 1909. Most of them had past over in the interval to the great majority; a few, like Dr. Harris, were prevented by ill health from making the long journey to the foot of the Rocky Mountains. The attendance was fairly satisfactory, judging by the standard set during the past few years, but the registered enrollment was most disappointing. From such reports as have been published, it appears that only about 3,000 of all those who attended the Denver meeting from points outside of Colorado took occasion to register and to pay their membership fee in the Association. This is an ominous and disappointing fact. Now that it is no longer possible to collect the membership fee as part of the price of the railroad ticket to the place of meeting, the Association must depend upon the loyalty and good-will of its members for its financial support. At Denver it was a matter of surprized comment that in so many cases this loyalty and good-will did not seem to be worth two dollars.

President Harvey had prepared an attractive program, and it was well carried out. His own dominant educational interest naturally gave the meeting its key-note. Two of the very best papers read at Denver were those of President Harvey himself, at the opening session, on industrial education in general, and a shorter paper dealing with industrial education as related to the elementary school, read to the Council by Assistant Commissioner Downing of New York.

Judging by the local newspapers, a somewhat larger number of foolish things than usual was said by speakers in several of the department meetings. At all events, the newspapers suc