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The Child and the Book. By Gerald Stanley Lee. This attractive volume is reprinted from a larger work called "The Lost Art of Reading." The original volume contained in itself two books-one on children's reading, and the other bearing the sub-title of "The Man and the Book," and teaching the reader of mature years how and what to read. The two volumes have been separated, and are now sold each by itself. Those who have the guidance of child life will find this volume a very helpful and reliable manual; full of suggestion as to how to aid children to select the best from the mass of literature that is offered to them, and how to get the best good out of it The scope of the volume covers not only the reading of children, but also of young people through school and college age. The subject is one of vast importance, and is worthy of careful study by parents and teachers. It will ever be a delight to study it under the guidance of this book and author. G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Helps to the Reading of Classical Latin Poetry. By Leon J. Richardson. This little book, intended primarily for students of Vergil and Ovid, outlines the part that reading, as distinct from translation, should play in the field of classical study. In order to get the true spirit of literature the student must do more than merely find equivalent English words for the Latin forms, and put them in their proper relations; he must learn to gather the sense from the page in a normal way, to take the words into the mind by a genuine process of "straight-a-head" reading. In proportion as he acquires this habit, will he take a Roman's attitude toward the literature, obtaining more and more a revelation of the true meaning and beauty of the poetry. Professor Richardson's book is intended to help the pupil acquire this habit, and cannot fail to be of value to all students of Latin poetry. The book is in two parts-part one dealing with rhythm as concerned in the poets' art, and with the rhythmical elements, syllables, feet, and verses; and part two with the dactylic hexameter and pentameter, with some practical hints on reading Latin poetry. Ginn & Co. Fifty

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Periodical Notes

Useful and suggestive hints on "The Care of the Woman," are given by Anna M. Galbraith, M.D., in the June Delineator; in the same magazine there are two articles on Women's Work in Astronomy."Our Currency Reform Problem "is ably treated in the Yale Review by Fred Rogers Fairchild.-"The Dawn of American Drama" was interestingly considered in the May number of the Atlantic Monthly by John Corbin.-President Roosevelt, interviewed by Edward B. Clark, delivers a characteristically vigorous attack in the June Everybody's, on certain wellknown animal writers whose stories are false to nature. "Roosevelt on the Nature Fakirs," is a salutary exposure, and comes fittingly from one who is recognized as the world's big game authority.-Ossian H. Lang, that faithful watchdog over America's educational interests, sums up in the current April-June Forum, the results of the recent national convention in Chicago.President W. H. P. Faunce writes instructively of "Governor Hughes, the Man," in World's Work for May.

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