Hppletons' /IDontbls Bulletin. 



war, are presented in a way to interest 

 the young reader, and give him a clear 

 view of the romantic career and inglori- 

 ous decline of the Spanish empire. 



Dr. W. T. Harris, 

 Editor International Education Series. 



The important new volume, Letters 

 to a Mother, by Miss Susan E. Blow, is 

 a valuable addition to the International 

 Education Series, edited by the Hon. 

 W. T. Harris, U. S. Commissioner of 

 Education. 



The object of this book is to explain 

 in language addressed to the general 

 public the philosophy of Froebel. Its au- 

 thor finds it necessary for this purpose 

 to take up the most important ^doctrines 

 one after the other as they were devel- 

 oped in the " Mutter und Kose Lieder," 

 and show their equivalents in the differ- 

 ent systems of thought that prevailed. 

 In some cases these systems are in har- 

 mony with Froebel, and in other cases 

 there is profound disagreement. It is 

 well for all students of the kindergarten 

 to deepen their knowledge of his prin- 

 ciples by seeing their ultimate conse- 

 quences and understanding how they 

 apply to practical questions in the in- 

 struction of the young. The teacher 

 ought to be able to understand things 

 in their causes and reasons, and not rely 

 too much upon mere authority. The 

 importance of this will be readily under- 

 stood by those who have seen in recent 

 years the unprofitable experiments made J 



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by kindergartners who have only par- 

 tially understood Froebel, and who have 

 been easily caught by some plausible 

 doctrine brought forward as an improve- 

 ment, but which is really at variance 

 with the true theory of the kindergarten 

 as well as with that of all sound peda- 

 gogy. 



The readers of the discussions in this 

 book will readily concede that the expo- 

 sition of the results of the theory of the 

 kindergarten, and also the defense of its 

 practice as against systems that conflict 

 with it, are presented with a clearness 

 and force new in the literature of the 

 subject. In this respect, as well as in 

 many others, this book is most timely. 





Uncie Sam's Soldiers is the title of 

 a story for boys just issued by D. Apple- 

 ton and Company. It is a companion 

 story to " Uncle Sam's Secrets " issued by 

 this firm in 1897, with later editions in 

 1898, and is by the same author, Mr. 

 O. P. Austin, the present Chief of the 

 Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Depart- 

 ment. The story, which purports to be 

 the experience of two boys verging upon 

 manhood who served with the armies in 

 Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, 

 gives largely in conversational form the 

 facts regarding modern military methods 

 in a way which can not fail to interest the 

 younger generation or those whose ex- 

 periences in the civil war would lead them 

 to value some account of the develop- 

 ments in war methods since that time. 





Our Navy in Time of War, the new 

 volume in Appletons' Home-Reading 

 Series, by Franklin Matthews, makes its 

 appearance opportunely. The essential 

 technical points of our navy's achieve- 

 ments have been emphasized and ex- 

 ploited in this book, which is designed 

 to interest the young reader in historical 

 research. No more stirring chapters in 

 our country's history could be selected 

 than are contained in the story of the 

 navy from Paul Jones to Dewey. This 

 book should be in the library of every 

 boy in the country. 



