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liow to jn'Otect tlu'iii fnmi lire, cattle, and other enemies, liow to recog- 

 nize different Ivinds of trees, and how to learn the uses of livintr trees foi- such 

 imritoses as shade, ornament, and shelter helts. 



The education of the cottage and market gardener, T. S. Dymond {Jour. 

 Wnj. Hurt. .Soc. [LondoH], .i.i { Ulin), i)i>. ILi-l2.i, jiyx. ',) . — This is a discussion 

 of methods and means of education in gardening in Great Britain ])artly in 

 comparison with similar worlc in America. The author discusses tlie place 

 of such work in horticultural colleges, rural grammar schools, and elementary 

 schools, the traiuing of teachers for such work, evening schools, higher rural 

 schools, and other means of education. 



In discussing the sub.1ect ot nature study and school gardens the author 

 states that he is familiar with elementary education in several continental 

 countries, as well as in Canada and the United States, but " that in none of 

 these does the cultivation of school gardens approach in excellence that in 

 our own country." This statement he later modifies in discussing the nature- 

 study side of gardening wherein " the teaching of gardening operations was 

 as good as it could very well be," but a surprising ignorance was shown by 

 the pupils concerning the principles underlying these operations. Continuing, 

 he says " In America it is the reverse. There, as practical gardening, it is 

 almost ridiculous; but as training the children to exercise their intelligence 

 about the things that form their surroundings, and thus acquiring a knowledge 

 of those suri'oundings, natural and Industrial, which will be useful to them 

 afterwards in rural life, it is far ahead of ours. The results are better. The 

 boys as they leave school may have less skill and a smaller store of knowledge, 

 but they are more mentally alert, have greater power of adapting themselves 

 to circumstances, are more keen to use any facilities that present themselves for 

 further education." 



Home nature-study course, Anna B. Comstock and J. W. Spencer {Home 

 XatKrc ^tiKly Course [Vorncll Unir., Stat£ Col. Agr.], ii. scr., 3 (WOG). \o. 1. 

 pp. 39, figs. 20). — Suggestions are given for teachers desiring to carry on the 

 fall work of the first and second year pupils as outlined in the Syllabus of 

 Nature Study and Agriculture issued by the New York State Education Depart- 

 ment. There are 12 lessons on birds, 5 each on the potato beetle and the sun- 

 flower, 4 on grasshoppers and crickets, 4 on the sweet pea, 3 on the nasturtiinn, 

 2 each on the squirrel, leaves, oaks, and chestnut, and 1 each on the beaver, 

 cat, pansy, milkweed, autumn flowers, maples, and the peach, pear, and plum. 

 The plan of the different lessons is to explain tlieir purpose, describe the mate- 

 rial needed, and outline the observations to be made. 



One woman's child garden, INIauel P. Daggett (Broadwdij Map.. 18 i/9()7). 

 No. G, pp. 729-736, figs. 17). — This is a popular account of The Children's Farm 

 School in DeWitt Clinton Park, New York City. 



Technical education for women and girls at home and abroad (Iiondon 

 [1907 \, pp. il'i). — This pamphlet contains a series of unsigned articles on how 

 girls are trained in France, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Man- 

 hattan Trade School in New York, and London. The training under considera- 

 tion is largel.v technical or more properly trade school work in .sewing, cooking, 

 milliner.v. laundering, etc. The work of some of the more important schools in 

 each country mentioned is described. 



The school of agricultural home economics at Alzey, F. Kvzigior {Ann. 

 Qrmhloii.r, 17 (1907), Xo. 9. pp. 'i97-')(),i) . — This is a description of one of the 

 German schools of agricultural home economics, its equipment and course of 

 study. Other similar schools are found in Baden, Wurttemberg. Bavaria, Hesse- 

 Nassau, Brunswick, Saxony, and Schleswig-Holsteln, while in Berlin there is a 

 liigher school for the training of teachers for such institutions. 



