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raensurate with the structure of urban communities. The author recommends, 

 then, the readjustment and adaptation of the institutions of that socio-economic 

 unit, the trade zone, or, as he names it, the borough. The farm woman as home 

 maker, interpreter of family and child psychology, housekeeper, and cooperator, 

 and the child, through whom new and progressive ideas are often accepted into 

 the home, must both be given the benefits of modern science, the one by means 

 of labor-saving devices which will prevent her chronic fatigue and the other by 

 a broadening of his school life and opportunities. 



Chapter 7, on rural relations of high schools, offers one solution for the prob- 

 lem of meeting the needs of rural adolescents, Maps are given showing areas 

 of high-school influence in Wisconsin and rural relations of two high schools 

 are described in detail. The discussion of rural social centers, country clubs, 

 country fetes, and country churches cites many examples of what is being done 

 in hamlets and in the open country through these agencies. 



Chapter 12 develops the idea of the survey and Statistical method of rural 



study. The author shows how a force at hand, scl 1 teacher and pupils, is 



available for surveying the school district, mid recommends the method of the 

 work and the making of maps locating each farm ami showing social feat in 

 Surveys of boroughs and rural parishes an- discussed in the same way to show 

 how l hey may he made and how utilized. 



The last two chapters are devoted respectively to a discussion of legislation 

 affecting rural education and rural local government and the need for new rural 

 population classifications in the census, and to outlining study problems as 

 applications of the 18 preceding chapters. 



Mobilizing the rural community. EL I.. MoBOAH ( lf<M«. \>ir. Col. Kit. > 

 llul. 2.1 {1918), i'i>. •'/. tiff*. W). — The bulletin presents the three forms of rural 

 Organization Which have been used in the State of Massachusetts, two of them, 

 that with a community leader and the one the author calls the group plan. 

 leading up to the third, the community council plan. Steps in the Inauguration 

 of the latter are a preliminary conference of a few organisation representatives, 

 the first community meeting and appointment of committees, subsequent m 

 iiiL-s. and the annual community meeting. 



The author declares that in undertaking similar work in other towns one 

 must keep in mind that farm production and farm business have a large place, 

 that the work of organisation must he thoroughgoing and well balanced, time, 

 money, and brains being devoted to it. and that progress will not come about of 

 itself. One must know of the town under consideration, its future, the spirit 

 of the people, whether or not the farmers are makincr money, and whether or 

 not farm bureaus, the county Y. M. C. A., the agricultural college, and other 

 sources of assistance are being taken advantage of. The work in several com- 

 munities lias been written up as illustrative of achievement in the line of 

 organization. 



The home of the countryside f.Yrtr York: Association /'" M, /''/7. pp. 

 X+149). — In this book are edited discussions heard at the fifth country life 

 conference of the county work department Of the International Committee of 

 the Young Men's Christian Association. At this meeting the Sbung Women's 

 Christian Association also had an official part. 



The day of the country church. J. 0. AaHENBTCBST 1 V- w York and London: 

 Funk d- WognaUt Co.. 1910. pp. 808).— The discussion follows the usual chan- 

 nels, urging the responsibility of the church in the spiritual life of the country 

 and suggesting needed institutional methods, cooperation, and evangelism, as 

 well as remedies for the handicap of denominationalism. Chapters are devol 

 to the Sunday school, to the idea of a church plant of three units — a place Of 



