LITERARY NOTES 



IX 



agination, mortals' greatest gift," which can 

 "make the pathway of Knowledge one of joy 

 for all children." 



Facts in Jingles. By Winifred Sackville, 



Stoner, Jr. Indianapolis, Indiana : The 



Bobbs-Merrill Company. 



From the educational point of view amid 



natural methods, one hardly knows which to 



admire most — the mother that has used plain 



common sense in her efficient teaching, or the 



daughter that has profited by the teaching of 

 so wise and skilled a mother. We are espe- 

 cially glad that both mother and daughter are 

 Members of The Agassiz Association and that 

 they are carrying on their nature work in 

 connection with ArcAdiA. ]Many specimens 

 collected by Winifred are on exhibition in our 

 laboratory. These include living pitcher 

 plants and Venus's-flytraps. These flytraps 

 are found onlv in Wilmington, North Caro- 



Winifred, age three 



lina, so far as has been reported to ArcAdiA. 

 Of this remarkable girl, the publishers say in 

 their announcement of her books : 



The best developed child in America, Wini- 

 fred Sackville Stoner, Jr., could speak several 

 languages and wrote for newspapers and mag- 

 azines at the age of five, and yet retained all 

 of the characteristics of a healthv, plavful 

 child. 



At the age of nine she passed the college 

 entrance examinations, and now at twelve, 

 she has mastered eight languages, has written 

 nine books, is a teacher of Esperanto, an ac- 

 complished musician, and is stronger physi- 



cally than the average child of her age. 



She is not a genius nor a wonder child, but 

 simply a normal child well developed through 

 a svstem of Natural education invented by her 

 mother, Mrs. Winifred Sackville Stoner, 

 from whom she has received her training. 



Any mother can do for her child what Mrs. 

 Stoner has done for her daughter, if she 

 employs Mrs. Stoner's methods. 



Any mother can learn Mrs. Stoner's sys- 

 tem from her book, in which she analyzes, 

 outlines and describes her entire plan as car- 

 ried out during the education of her 

 daughter from the cradle to her tenth year. 



