teem of educators and the pupils alike. The series is made by experienced educators all of whom have made the teaching of reading a study for years. The new volume carries forward the development of a vocabulary, the ability to read silently with rapidity and with a full comprehension. The selections appeal to the imagination and lure the mind onward to the riches that increase as the lessons unfold. The book is handsomely illustrated. Happy are the children of today, in the abundance of attractive school books that make study no longer a task but a joy and present satisfaction.

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Broad foundations are laid in this book for a sound theory of bookkeeping. The student is impressed with the fact that the subject is based on fixed principles and that these principles must be mastered before one undertakes actual, practical bookkeeping. Minute details are left to the teacher instead of being included in the book. The volume is an invaluable guide to the teacher but not a substitute for him. Yet the well informed practical bookkeeper may use it with profit and will find much in it that will help him in attaining celerity and thoroughness.

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So arranged as to meet the needs of those whose voices are changing. Optional parts have been provided for changed voices and "a high musical quality with technical (vocal) fitness has thus been successfully attained." The selections are varied and include both old and recent favorites.

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A very practical text book for class use, a valuable manual for men "on the road." In choice, direct English the theory and practice of salesmanship is presented. It would pay any business man big interest on his investment to buy this book and read it carefully at least twice. LABORATORY EXERCISES IN GENERAL CHEMISTRY. By William Martin Blanchard. Second Edition. D. Van Nostrand Company. Price $1.25 net.

The first edition of Professor Blanchard's book established its repu tation as one of the best arranged and most comprehensive text books of

laboratory chemistry. It furnishes exercises which can be completed by the student who devotes about six hours a week to them during a college year. The subjects covered are comprehensive of the main essentials of a practical chemistry course. They will stimulate a scientific spirit, help the student to acquire skill in handling materials and make him familiar with fundamental facts and principles. Many of the exercises have been rewritten for this new edition and some fresh experiments have been introduced.

THE COLLEGES IN WAR TIME AND AFTER. By Parke Rexford Kolbe. With an introduction by Philander P. Claxton. D. Appleton and Company. Price $2.00 net.

The author is President of the Municipal University of Akron, and also Special Collaborator in the United States Bureau of Education. He has been thus in an especially favorable position to judge of the effect of the World War upon the Colleges, and of the reaction of the Colleges to the War. He finds that the war has tested the colleges and they have not been found wanting. It has revealed them to themselves and enabled them to discover their weaknesses and led them to discard many outworn practices. It has called upon them for leadership and the response has been magnificent. The value of their service has been demonstrated over and over again, as they have sent out hundreds and thousands of undergraduates and graduates to fill all sorts of positions,-a very large proportion of these men taking officers rank, and practically all of them rendering distinguished service. The war has emphasized the importance of scientific and industrial training. It has "profound and permanent effects upon American higher education." It has contributed to democratise higher education. This volume will have a wide reading and a permanent influence in higher educational circles.

Periodical Notes.

The American Journal of Sociology for July is largely given over to the discussion of political sociology. There is a paper on "Students' Dissertations in Sociology," which gives a list of Doctoral Dissertations now in progress in American Universities and Colleges. Religious Education for August has an able presentation of the argument for "Credit for Bible Study in Admission to College'', by William Marshall Warren, Ph. D., Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Boston University. The August 30th number of The Nation is the annual Educational number. It gives distinct assistance to those who have been absent in war service, in catching up with the books they have missed in the past two years. Public Libraries for July is full of interesting matters. Its Department of School Libraries should be read regularly by those who control the policy of our public and private schools."Our Technical Achievements in the Great War" is the subject of a most instructive and interesting series of articles appearing in The Scientific American during August.-Students of geography as well as students of sociology and political science will be interested in the series of articles in The Outlook, beginning with the issue of Aug. 6, on "The New Nation of Asia." They are contributed by Charles W. Holman.

Devoted to the Science, Art, Philosophy and Literature

VOL. XL.

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of Education

OCTOBER, 1919

The Elimination of Illiteracy
EARL C. ARNOLD, PROFESSOR OF LAW.
UNIVERSITY OE FLORIDA.

No. 2

O every one there is something interesting in the mysterious. A boy who is recalcitrant becomes repentant after his mother's remark that "something will happen to you." The minister who can successfully veil the beyond and yet pluck some probable realities for those of his flock who refuse to mend their ways, will find a certain class of converts. Politicians who desire to create the profoundest impression are wont to say, "We are now passing through a great crisis." Somehow the attention is arrested by the secretiveness of the prophecy that the nation or world must mend its ways or "something is going to happen." We are slow to realize that vaticination is an easier and less accurate science than history. Recently so many thousands have mouthed the prophecy that we are passing through a crisis that unfortunately it may lose its force, as it does on the boy whose mother uses this method of impression too often without anything serious happening.

Without question the world has been passing through a crisis, or, more accurately, a series of crises. In fact, they continue. This is not the only one the world has ever had, nor is it the only Big Crisis. The Revolution of 1848 was a crisis, and had the people won, the story would have been different during the past five years. Little old France had a crisis about that date, and another following the Franco-Prussian War of more import to it