LITEUATt'UE. AMERICAN, IX 189G. 



C'unitry" ami "The Listener in the Town." " The 

 Singing .Mouse Stories" were told l>y K. Hough; 

 A' Ve;ir in the Fields," selections from the writings 



hn Burroughs was illustrated from photo- 

 graphs by Clifton Johnson ; and Mary H. Burt edited 

 "Little Nature Studies for Little People." in two 

 volumes, from the essays of the same student of 

 Natuiv. who published " A Bunch of Herbs and 

 Other Papers." Brief " Studies in American Colo- 

 nial Life" were contributed by Edward Everett 

 Hale, and Mrs. Alice Mor-e Earle wrote two books, 

 on -Colonial Days in Old New York" and on "Cu- 

 rious Punishments of Bygone Days." Mrs. Mary 

 Alden Ward entitled her five essays " Old Colony 

 Days." while William Root Bliss gave his attention 

 to "(Quaint Nantucket." " The Colonial Parson of 

 New England" was | icturcd by Frank S. Childs, 

 and Dr. .John Wright wrote a descriptive account 

 of " Early Prayer Books of America." " The 

 Happy Life" was outlined for young people by 

 President Charles W. Eliot, of 'Harvard; "The 

 Perfect Whole." by Horatio W. Dresser, was the title 

 of an essay on the conduct and meaning of life ; 

 "Around the Hearthstone: or, Hints for Home 

 Builders " and " Men who Win " and " Women who 

 Win " were from the pen of William Makepeace 

 Thayer ; while "Architects of Eate : or. Steps to 

 Success and Power." by Orison Swett Marden, was 

 intended as a companion volume to his " Pushing 

 to the Front." Bishop Anthony Wilson Thorolu 

 wrote "On Marriage " and "On Money"; Mr.-. A. 

 D. T. Whitney published timely ' Friendly Letters 

 to Girl Friends": and Mrs. Helen E. Starrett asked 

 'After College. What? For Girls." '-With my 

 fhbors," by Mrs. Margaret E. M. Sangster. 

 offered suggestive liints. wliile " Tracings." by E. 

 Scott O'Connor purported to be a reflection of 

 Nature. Mrs. Julia Ward Howe asks "Is Polite 

 Society Polite ''." with other essays. Katharine B. 

 Woods compiled " Quotations for Occasions," and 

 other compilations worthy of note were ''About 

 Children." by Rose Porter; ''Concerning Friend- 

 ship." by Eli Atkins Stone ; ''Tobacco in Song and 

 Story." by John Bain, Jr.; and "Blossoms of 

 Thought." by C. E. Russell. " Sermonettes from 

 Mother Goose" for big folks were delivered by 

 Fanny M. Ilarley. Robert Hunter and others 

 edited " The Encyclopaedic Dictionary," in four 

 volume-;, and S. Pollock Linn supplied a want with 

 his "Dictionary of Living Thoughts of Leading 

 Thinkers." Among tflifiv/ix <1<- hi.n- published dur- 

 ing the year may be mentioned that of Henry J. 

 Van Dyke's" Little Rivers." limited to 1.50 copies. 



Education. " Teaching in Three Continents," 

 by W. Cation ("irasby. consists of personal notes on 

 the educational systems of the world, while ''Edu- 

 cation." by II. Holman, was intended as an intro- 

 duction to its principles and their psychological 

 foundations, and Herman T. Lukens traced "The 

 Connection between Thought and Memory" in a 

 ibution to pedagogical psychology on the ba-is 

 of E. W. Dorpfcld's monograph " Denken mid Ge- 

 dachtnis." In Appleton's " International Education 

 Series " appeared " Herbart's A BC of Sense-Per- 

 ception and Minor Pedagogical Works." translated, 

 with an introduction, notes, and commentary, by 

 William J. Eckoff ; the " Principles and Practice of 

 Teaching." by James Johonnot. first' published in 

 1^? s and iii.iw revised by Sarah Evans Johonnot : 

 Compayre's "Intellectual and Moral Development 

 of the Child," part I: and "The School System of 

 Ontario i( 'anadai." by George W. Ross Patterson Du 

 Bois dwelt upon-Tli'e Point of Contact in Teaching." 

 David Starr Jordan delivered a series of addresse- i .n 

 tlie higher education, published under the title ' The 

 Care and Culture of Men." and Harry Pratt Judson 

 considered briefly "The Higher Education as a 



Training for Bu-ine-s." "The Schoolmaster" was 

 the -nbjee! of the addiv-- _. I-;. Hardy a-. 



President of the New York Stale Teacher-' Ast 

 tion.at Saratoga, July 9, l*iM. -Sr-liool Intere-tsand 



Duties "were developed by Robert M. King, from 



-"Mutual Duties of Parents and Teacher-." 

 from various public reports and documents, and 

 from the bulletins of the National Bureau of Edu- 

 cation, and a second revised and enlarged edition 

 was printed of "The History of Modem Educa- 

 tion." by Samuel G.Williams. Frederick Ludlow 

 Luqueer wrote upon " Hegel a< Educator" in the 

 "Columbia University Contributions to Philosophy, 

 Psychology, and Education." and Levi Seeley treated 

 of "The Common-School System of Germany and 

 its Lessons to America." In the "Republic of 

 Childhood Series" appeared "Kindergarten Prin- 

 ciples and Practice." by Kate Douglas Wiggin 

 (Mrs. George C. Riggs) and "Froebel's Occupa- 

 tions," by the same author in collaboration with 

 Nora Archibald Smith, and "The Songs and Mu>ic 

 of Friedrich Froebel's 'Mother Play'" had the 

 songs newly translated and furnished with new 

 music by Susan E. Blow for the "International 

 Education Series." Marion Strickland offend 

 " Suggestions for Kindergarten Work." and Frank 

 Sewall considered the kindergarten in the education 

 of the citizen "The Angel of the State." Yet an- 

 other issue of the "International Education Series" 

 was Burke A. Hinsdale's volume upon "Teaching 

 the Language Arts Speech, Reading, Compo-i- 

 ti'ii": William Morton Payne edited " English in 

 American Universities"; Elizabeth II. Spalding 

 proposed suggestions for the solution of "The 

 Problem of Elementary Composition " : C. G. Ains- 

 worth compiled " Lessons in Literature." with illus- 

 trative selections, as a text-book for schools and 

 academies; Mary E. and Abbv L. Sargent prepared 

 a "Supplement to 'Reading for the Young.' by 

 John F. Sargent." James Baldwin retold "Old 

 Stories of the East " ; Emerson E. White added " A 

 School Algebra." designed for use in high schools 

 and academies to " White's Series of Mathematics " ; 

 Hudson A. Wood devised "Short Cuts in Arith- 

 metic"; Book VII of " Macmillan's Geography 

 Readers " covered " The United States Ocean Cur- 

 rents and Sides": "A Manual of Clay Modeling." 

 for teachers and scholars, was the work of Mary L. 

 II. Unwin : W. A. Steelier edited "Gymnastics." a 

 text-book of the German-American system of gym- 

 nastics : and John W. Tufts proffered " A Handbook 

 of Vocal Music, illustrating Normal Methods 

 through 'The Normal Music Course,' 'The Cecilian 

 Scries" of Study and Song.' and 'The Common- 

 school Course.'" Vol. I appeared of "Union Col- 

 lege Practical Lectures (Butterfield Course)." For 

 primarv pupils Nellie Walton Ford wrote of natu- 

 ral science as "Nature's Byways." and Mrs. M. A. 

 P>. Kelly told "Short Stories of our Shy Neighbors." 

 ' A History of the Public Education Association of 

 Philadelphia." by L. R. Ilarley. had an introdu. 

 by Edmund J. James, and "Stanford University 

 aiid Thereabouts" was described by O.L.Elliott 

 and O. V. Eaton. 



Fiction. From the well-known authors of fiction 

 came a reasonable supply of new works. Gilbert 

 Park of the Mighty " was one of the suc- 



9 of the year. "Taquisara" wa> a new Italian 

 by Marion Crawford, and his "Adam John- 

 stone's Son," had an English hero. William Dean 

 Howells published "The Day of their Wedding: 

 A Novel" and "A Partimr and a Meeting." more 

 modestly described as a "story," both dealing with 

 life among the Shakers: "The Other Hou.-e" and 

 End arrassments." by Henry James, delighted the 

 admirers of that author; and Mrs. Frances II 

 son Burnett made a new departure in her portrayal 



