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Child Training. V. M. Hillyer. Pp. xxxix and 299. The 

 Century Co. $1.60. 

 The book is primarily a system of education for the child under 

 school age. The author realizes that the years before the child 

 starts to school are really the most important of its life, important 

 in the training in proper habits, in the foundation of his physique, 

 and in the development of personality and individuality. There 

 are a number of very excellent things for the Nature teacher. 

 Among the habit drills that are suggested are many on observation. 

 Directions are given, for instance, for discriminations in the sense 

 of taste, of smell, of feeling, of pressure; and much of the material 

 suggested is Nature material. The use of pictures is discussed, 

 and a number of concrete illustrations are cited of the way in 

 which the child's observation may be stimulated by the Nature 

 pictures. Chapter 8, on Information, includes desirable experien- 

 ces with many Nature materials. Just this list of desirable outdoor 

 experiences is worth while as a check list to see that the little child 

 is given as much contact as possible with those experiences that 

 are so important in storing his mind with the images that he will 

 need to use in later life. 



The Teaching of Biology in the Secondary School. Francis 

 E. Lloyd, and Maurice E. Bigelow. Pp. viii and 491. Long- 

 mans, Green & Co. $1.50. 

 This is a reprint, with corrections and additions, of the first 

 edition, which appeared in 1004. While it is primarily for the high 

 school, several of the chapters will be of interest to Nature teachers; 

 Chapter 7, on the Value of Biology as a Means of Education; 

 Chapter 2, on Nature-Study; Chapters 5 and 7, on the Materials 

 of the Course in Botany and Zoology. Each of the chapters has a 

 good bibliography which puts the student in touch with many of 

 the best things that have been written on the particular subject 

 under discussion. There is no other book that is at all comparable 

 to this in the wealth of material and suggestiveness for the teacher 

 of biology in the secondary schools. 



