science and art. This is worth so much more in bringing up children than are old wives' tales that Mrs. Eva Morse, specialist in child guidance, will see to it that you will be helped to bring up Johnny if you, parents, will attend a class in any one of twentyeight different schools where the latest conclusions are taught to grown-ups.

I did ask the genial John what measure he keeps of the ebb and flow of efficiency in the system. He brought in Belle Ryan, Leon Smith, and John McCrory, assistant superintendents, with their tests, their records, and their graphs. I could see where Omaha children stood in standard comprehension scores of their reading ability in October and in the following May, the same for their rate of reading, for their arithmetic, for history, for literature, and for geography. I told these incredulous ones that the political majority of the Chicago school board had abolished the bureau of tests and measurements, whereupon the blithe Beveridge looked astounded and remarked, "Tear up the captain's chart; throw his compass, chronometer, and sextant overboard and then ask him to make port! Give me a bunch of exclamation points and asterisks!"

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HAT AN EDITOR DOESN'T KNOW AND HOW HE CAN LEARN. Of course a magazine named the EDUCATIONAL REVIEW should, for the bene-. fit of any who are lured by its title into subscribing for it, offer surveys, accounts, and reports of worthwhile things in the school work. Because a book on any educational subject is likely to present in condensed form the results of wide search through its particular field, there is no method of getting essential ideas to you as easily as by reviewing professional books. But such service is not of the highest repute. Often it has been used to air a reviewer's feelings of superiority or to exhibit his haste or laziness. No feature of a school editor's duty has in it more dread of dullness than this. The most confirmed doubters of the

value of book notices are the publishers of books on education. No feature of this magazine has perplexed the editor so much as the performance of the duty of discussing the books. And now, like most apprehensions and worries, this misgiving has had a bad jolt. A summary of your likes and dislikes as sent in on the return sheets given you every month discloses the surprising fact that more of you are reading the book reviews than are testifying approval of any other feature. When you consider how tearfully the institute conductors used to deplore that teachers do not read the literature of their profession you will realize that things are looking up. We have, before, commended the loyal men and women who in their sociable club not only read but discriminate and discuss books. The spirited custom followed long ago by James Greenwood in the Kansas City school system and revived by Professor John Rose for the EDUCATIONAL REVIEW shows no sign of slackening. It hardly seems likely that any locality with as many as twenty teachers could fail to find enough to make a monthly professional discussion of the best volumes a project of profit and pleasure. Given a leader with some social tact and with the professional pride essential in a teacher worth her wage the scheme will pay.

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WOMAN'S PERFECTLY PERTINENT INQUIRY.-Laura Bell Everett asks: "Don't you think the state universities should take measures against drinking in fraternities! If this is not cleared up from the inside, it is likely that, from the outside, taxpayers will refuse to vote appropriations for the encouragement of the higher drinking." Madam, this is real foresight! The growl of farmers at having their money used for young men maintaining clubs that break the laws is not only worth heeding at all times but in this case the credit will belong to the group that tackles the problem first; faculty or farmers.