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THE cry of the so-called practical

educator to-day is "Stick to the fundamentals! Out with fads and frills!"

Fine! We agree. For what is more fundamental than music? MUSIC was the basis of education centuries before the three R's were known!

Rightfully enough, it is only a thorough grounding in the three R's and vocational training that prepares for adequately sustaining life. But true education has come to mean so much more than a preparation for making a living. It must prepare for complete living. The modern school is more than a mere workshop. Only insofar as it makes ready for both earning a living and appreciating the finer values of life -music, art, literature-does it fulfill its mission.

Music in the school vitalizes, illuminates, and correlates with many other subjects: literature, history, geography, commercial studies, mythology, physical education, nature study, and hygiene. It fosters all the educational processes that are the desideratum of the so-called practical subjects. It SECURES attention, interest, mental discipline, participation, and expression, THROUGH sense perception, emotional response, and instruction, STIMULATING imagination, discrimination, concentration, and interpretation, LEAVING a residium of knowledge, culture, poise, and power.

What other one subject can do so much? And fully possible with the Victrola in the classroom.

Educational Department

Victor Talking Machine Company, Camden, New Jersey

BOOK NOTICES

A SHORT HISTORY OF MODERN PEOPLES (Part II of World Progress), by Willis Mason West, Sometime Professor of History and Head of the Department in the University of Minnesota.

The growing demand in high schools for a one-year course in European history led the author some months ago to write World Progress. The original work is now published in two volumes, each planned to cover a half year's work, and this book contains the second. part, beginning with the Protestant Reformation, and traces the story of modern peoples down to the present time, including the World War. The author's aim throughout has been to select topics that make the past live again and that at the same time form a continuous story, and prepare for an understanding of the social problems of to-day. Such a brief survey demands. the rigid exclusion of nonessentials. Recent developments have led the author to lay new emphasis upon the story of Spanish America, as well as upon China and Japan. United States history has been purposely omitted, except where intimately interwoven with old. world development, because of the fact that that subject now receives & full and separate high school year. Cloth, about 380 pages, price $1.50. Allyn and Bacon, New York, Boston, Chicago. THE PURPOSE, PREPARATION AND METHODS IN THE RECITATION, A Revised and Reset Edition of the Recitation, by Samuel Hamilton, Ph.D., LL.D., superintendent of public schools, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. "The Recitation", under which title this book was first published, received such a cordial reception on the part of teachers, and contained such a treatment of the essential principles of pedagogy, that there has been an urgent demand for its revision in the light of recent educational

progress. Much has been eliminated, important changes have been made, new sections have been added, and a chapter on the Socialized Recitation inserted, necessitating a complete resetting. This is neither a profound nor an exhaustive treatise on the recitation. It is only a series of easy lectures on the subject, prepared for young teachers. They are published in the hope that they will prove helpful to this class, and serve as a manual or guide in making the recitation a greater instrument of service. The discussion of the various themes in most cases is very brief, and often fragmentary. A full treatment of each would extend the limits of the volume far beyond its contemplated size. The whole discussion in this volume is intended to be suggestive rather than exhaustive. Many of the professional books are too difficult for young teachers. They appeal to the more advanced students of pedagogy. This volume is intended to aid the younger members of the profession by simplifying, and, if possible, clarifying for them, subjects usually regarded as difficult and obscure, and the author has endeavored to bring the whole discussion within the grasp of the average high school graduate. Cloth, 238 pages, price $1.60. J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, Chicago, and

London.

MECHANICAL DEVICES IN THE HOME, by Edith Allen, M.A., Assistant Editor, U. S. Department of Agriculture, formerly Specialist in Home Economics in Kansas State Agricultural College, University of Texas, and Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College. In writing this book the author's aim has been (1) to give information which will guide householders in selecting and installing the best cooking and heating devices, and in using them with the greatest economy of fuel and safety

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against accidents; (2) to explain the construction of lighting fixtures and how to determine the amount of light for health needed in various places; (3) to explain the principles of cooling; (4) to show how to make small repairs which save plumbers' bills; (5)

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to the child's imagination, curiosity and interest. Cloth, 222 pages, price $.80. Macmillan Company, New York, Chicago, London.

FORTUNA-TONY, by Enrique Perez Escrich, edited, with Introduction,

guide in the choice and care of laundry Notes, Exercises and Vocabulary, by M.

appliances and cooking utensils; (6) to familiarize women with the construction of electric, acetylene and gas plants and engines, and (7) to furnish tables of

measure often needed for reference.

The book is designed as a text for senior high school and junior college classes, as well as for the needs of home demonstration agents, housewives, and others interested in the various mechanical devices now used in the best equipped homes of the land. Cloth, 251 pages, price $1.75. The Manual Arts Press, Peoria, Illinois.

A FRIEND INDEED, by Julia Augusta Schwartz, author of "Wilderness Babies," "Little Star Gazers," etc. Illustrated by J. S. Eland. This book contains seven charmingly told stories which will prove of unfailing interest to children of the intermediate grades. The first story is entitled "The Stolen Cave," and tells of the adventures of a boy who lived before history began. The second story is entitled "Kalki, the Slave Boy," and relates how he ran away to Babylon to find kind Hammurabi, maker of laws. The other stories take the youthful reader back to the historic days of Greece and Rome, and tell of life, conditions and experiences such as children passed through in those distant lands and ages. The two concluding stories are given a more modern setting, one being placed in the days of the French Revolution and the concluding one dealing with a boy's adventures in the San Francisco earthquake. The writer of these stories knows children and knows how to successfully appeal

A. DeVitis. This book has been recommended for use in American schools by the Spanish Committee of the Modern Language Association. This edition of two admirable dog stories is made especially for pupils in the early stage of their study of Spanish. The volume contains exhaustive notes, adapted for beginning classes, and grammar rules are fully stated and illustrated. The author is a versatile writer, having written no less than thirty plays and a goodly number of novels and short stories. Greatest of all friends is the faithful dog, and this writer loved dogs. and hunting. He was invariably seen with dogs around him whether reading, writing or hunting. The dog has played no small part in literature, and the weaving of the stories contained in this book about the lives of two famous dogs needs no apology. It is a book that will appeal to and interest young students. Bacon, Boston, New York, Chicago. Cloth, 154 pages, price $.80. Allyn &

LA NOUVELLE CROISADE DES ENFANTS, by Henry Bordeaux, De L'Academe Française, abridged and edited, with Notes, Questionnaire, Notes, Questionnaire, Exercises and Vocabulary, by Henry Ward Church, Ph.D., Professor of Romance Languages and Literature, Allegheny College. This edition of one of the author's most popular writings is offered to American schools because of the excellence of the story for elementary reading. It is simple in language, interesting in content, and is the work of one of the foremost contemporary French novelists. The new children's crusade has a peculiar

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Announcing

a new series of readers for the grades which present ideas on healthful living so interestingly that children will acquire proper habits of health through their own initiative.

ANDRESS STORY SERIES IN HEALTH

By J. MACE ANDRESS, Lecturer on Health Education,
Boston University, and ANNIE TURNER ANDRESS,
formerly Head of Kindergarten Department, Worcester
(Mass.) State Normal School.

Book 1. A Journey to Health Land. Progressive stories describing the adventures of a group of children in an imaginary Health Land. Illustrated in color by Blanche Fisher Laite. For grades 3 or 4.

Book 2. The Boys and Girls of Wake-up Town. A dramatic story of the health achievements of a "Sleepy Town" which became a "Wake-up Town." Illustrated in color by Marguerite Davis. For grades 4 and 5.

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BASAL TEXTS OF PROVED MERIT

ESSENTIAL LANGUAGE HABITS-Charters, Betz, and Cowan.

The habit-forming series. Contains more games, drills, and exercises for the fixation of correct language habits than any other series. Instructions to pupils unvaryingly definite, specific and stated in the simplest language.

THE ANDERSON ARITHMETICS. Books in which every carefully charted step tends to strengthen the pupil's self-confidence; which save the teacher's energy by providing all the necessary foundation material; which concentrate upon the difficult phases of arithmetic so that results are bound to follow.

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Not just an ordinary speller, but a series which motivates the work most interestingly for the pupil and which provides the teacher with a complete outline of modern methods in teaching spelling.

SILVER, BURDETT AND COMPANY

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Newark

Boston Chicago

San Francisco

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