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ture of any calling or profession." " We have talked long in our schools of 

 the dignity of work; it is high time we were ac(inaiuting our children with the 

 real means of hecoming dignified l)y such a performance. It is only in the 

 schools that learning is divorced from doing." 



These selected quotations indicate the trend of this noteworthy address. 



Agricultural instruction in the army, F. Maier-Bode (Mitt. Deut. Landw. 

 GeseU.. 2.'f {1909), iYo. 15, pp. 2-'i3-251).—A report on the development of agri- 

 cultural instruction in the army in Bavaria and other German States, and in 

 Ita'y, Austria-Hungary. linssia, Denmark, Sweden, France, and Belgium. 



Popular horticultural instruction, Marchandise (Tribune Hart. [Brussels], 

 4 (1909), A'o. U9, p. 275).— A brief note setting forth the object and organiza- 

 tion of popular horticultural instruction in Belgium. 



School gardening and agricultural education in England, F. Bonseb 

 (School ^\'u■s and Praet. Ed., 22 (1909), No. 9, pp. Jfl2-JflJi, ftys. //) .—Extracts 

 from the regulations affecting school gardening and agricultural education for 

 Cheshire County and from the general code of 190S are given. The author states 

 that " in general the school gardening of England is much more a vocational 

 training than in America," and refers briefly to the training courses for teach- 

 ers in science and nature-study work at the Technical Laboratories in Chelms- 

 ford, Essex County, and to the instruction offered in the dairy schools at Chelms- 

 ford and at Griff House. 



Itinerant agricultural domestic science schools, P. Schindleb (Indus. Lait. 

 [Paris], 3-'t (1909), Nos. 8, pp. 122-125; 9, irp. 136-139; 10, pp. 152-156; 12, pp. 

 190-196; 13, p. 21J,-218; 15, pp. 280-284; 16, pp. 307-312).— A discussion of the 

 courses, methods, and organization of itinerant agricultural domestic science 

 schools. 



Women's institutes of Ontario, G. A. Putnam (Rpt. Women's lusts. Ontario, 

 1909, pt. 2, pp. 21). — A list of meetings and speakers at women's institutes in 

 the Province of Ontario is given, together with the programmes presented. 



Woman and the home, A. Piffault (La Femme de Foyer. Paris, 1909, 

 pp. XII+391). — Part 1 of this book considers the role of woman in modern 

 society, the evolution of domestic occupations, the scope and definition of do- 

 mestic science education, the home and its furnishings, food and clothing, do- 

 mestic finances, hygiene and elementary medicine, etc. In part 2 the following 

 subjects are discussed : Who should give domestic science instruction — the 

 mother or the school; physical and natural sciences and moral education con- 

 sidered as bases of domestic science education ; examination of objections which 

 may be made to the study of elementary medicine and of childhood ; and do- 

 mestic science methods and courses of instruction. 



Practical nature study and elementary agriculture, .1. M. and J. G. Coulter 

 and Alice J. Patterson (Neio York, 1909. pp. /A'+^J)).— Part 1 of this work 

 discusses the general relations of nature study to elementary agriculture and 

 the training of teachers who are already at work in the schools giving instruc- 

 tion in these subjects. Part 2 contains a detailed topical outline by grades and 

 sea.sons of the nature-study work of the Illinois State Normal University. In 

 part 3 this is abbreviated into a shorter outline for the lower grades, with 

 suggestions for correlation with other school subjects, followed by a detailed 

 course in elementary agriculture for the seventh and eighth grades. Part 4 

 aims to provide inexperienced teachers with sufficient general information in 

 natural science to guard against the most common misconceptions. One of the 

 most iniportant chapters in the book deals with The Dangers of Nature Study, 

 such as the confusion of mere terminology with knowledge, the drawing of un- 

 warranted inferences, and the trend toward a "mawkish sentimentality" In 

 teaching the subject. 



