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8vo, 475 pages. Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Net, $2.50; postage extra. Mr. Lane is by no means an outside investigator. His work has brought him in intimate contact with prison life and he has had the active assistance of such men as Dr. William Healy, of the Judge Baker Foundation; Mr. George W. Kirchway, Mr. Osborne, and Mr. Calvin Derrick. His findings on the present and future treatment of the criminal are both interesting and valuable and should help toward a solution of this great social problem.

THE TEACHING OF SPELLING. By Willard F. Tidyman, M. A., Ph. D. World Book Company, Yonkers-on-Hudson, N. Y. Price 99 cents.

This is a handbook for teachers which evaluates and brings into proper relationship all studies of the pedagogics of spelling that have been made to date. It presents the findings in their relation to the teacher's practical problems. The book brings together from all sources the facts that are relevant to the teaching of spelling. It deals with every angle of the subject. There are notes, references, summaries of chapters, and an exhaustive bibliography.

HISTORY STORIES FOR PRIMARY GRADES. By John W. Wayland, Ph. D. Illustrations by Maud and Miska Petersham. Macmillan. Price 60 cents.

A book of excellent history stories for very young children. Most of them are chosen from our own country. Easy phases of geography are incorporated. The volume is in accord with the latest and best pedagogical principles and will find a wide usefulness in the lower grades.

COMMERCIAL SPANISH. By C. F. McHale, B. Ph. University of Chile, Graduate Master of the Institute of Pedagogy of Chile, Director of Instruction of the Centro Internacional de Enseñanza of Madrid, Spanish Instructor of the National City Bank of New York. D. C. Heath & Co. Price $1.40 net.

Another excellent and timely aid in acquiring a language for which there is a constantly increasing use in the commercial world.

TRES CAMEDIAS. Sin Querer, De Pequeñas Cansas, Los Intereses Creados. By Jacinto Benavente. Edited by John Van Horne, Ph. D D. C. Heath & Co. Price 72 cents.

AMERICA AND BRITAIN. By H. H. Powers. Macmillan. Price 40

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A condensed story of the relations of two great peoples. Very readable. Excellent for the classes in History and Political Science.

WORDS OF CHEER. By Marion Stearns Buck. The Gorham Press, Boston.

This is a comforting little book in verse, for free distribution, in the War Service Library. It has doubtless given comfort and courage to many a weary, tempted, homesick soldier on the march, on the battlefield or in the hospital.

SYNTAX OF HIGH-SCHOOL LATIN. Edited by Principal Lee Byrne, High School, Mobile, Ala. The University of Chicago Press. Price 75 cents net.

A co-operative study of the subject by fifty collaborators. It starts "with the assumption that Latin is extensively studied,” and goes on to show what will contribute to make this study more effective. We believe the argument and the details of this book are both valid and useful.

FIRST LESSONS IN BUSINESS. By J. A. Bexell. Lippincott's Thrift Text Series. Illustrated. Net, 68 cents. J. B. Lippincott Company, publishers.

How to avoid extravagance and waste; how to save and practice thrift; exercises in keeping of personal and household accounts; and those elements of business forms and practice with which every one should be familiar, are given in a series of lessons so excellently graded and arranged as to appeal to adult and pupil alike.

PLUTARCH'S LIVES. Clough's translation, abridged and annotated for schools by Edwin Ginn, with historical introductions by William Francis Allen. Portraits by W. A. Dwiggins.. Ginn and Company.

12mo. Price 60 cents..

A few brief notes have been included for such information as may not readily be gathered from the text.. These, with the introductions and a complete pronouncing vocabulary, render this edition especially suitable for children.

Periodical Notes.

Features of December Scribner's Magazine are a very effective frontispiece, "The Nativity," from a drawing by C. Bosseron Chambers; and a most interesting Nature article by John Burroughs. "A Decade of History Teaching and Historical Activities" is the title of a fourteen page contribution to the December number of The Historical Outlook, by Dr. D. C. Knowlton and other specialists. "Children and the Movies" is briefly discussed in Good Health for December. Gregory Mason's contribution to The Outlook for December 10th is entitled "Your Coal and My Coal." It teems with information acquired at first hand. The article for educators, par excellence, in Modern Medicine for November, is by W. A. Evans, M. D., who writes on "Health Education in Industry.'' "Factors of Climatic Control," by W. J. Humphries, in Journal of the Franklin Institute for December, is as interesting as it is scholarly. "The Life of Sir Wilfrid Laurier' is interestingly continued in The Century for November. It is written by Oscar Douglas Skelton.

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Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature

of Education

VOL. XL.

FEBRUARY, 1920

No. 6

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The Claims of the New Type Junior College DAVID B. CORSON, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, NEWARK, N. J. EN who speak with authority on educational problems, and the faculties of the great state and other universities of the west have approved and encouraged the Junior Colleges. President Harper was its father, Chicago University its mother, and President Jordan was the first to make popular the name of the new institution. With such parentage and baptism it has started on its life career. It was introduced into the public school system of Illinois at Joliet in 1902, by the addition of two years to the four-year high school course. This action followed a conference of J. Stanley Brown, the superintendent of the city schools, with President Harper and those acknowledged leaders of public school education, Soldan of St. Louis, and Greenwood of Kansas City. The example thus set was followed by cities in neighboring states. The state of California, under the leadership of its universities, adopted the plan with great enthusiasm. There was felt a real need for such an institution. The distances were great to the universities and there was a scarcity of small colleges. Its first Junior College was established at Fresno in 1910. In 1915 there were twelve, all having added two years to their high school courses. In the same year there were eleven high schools in the jurisdiction of the North Central Association of Schools and Colleges which reported the same addition to their high school courses. A notable event in the progress of the movement

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