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lean teachers and normal schools by John 

 'I'. Prince ; mid French Schools through Amer- 



Byes" was tin- report of .lain.-.-, I, 

 ;i>. Jr.. to the New York Slate Department 

 of Public Instruction. In 'tin' new M-rie> of 

 ; Educators "" Alcuin and the Rise of the 

 ChriMian Schools" was l>y Prof. Andrew Flem- 

 ing West ; AriMotle and Ancient Educational 

 ." by 'I'hoinas Davidson ; and Loyola and 

 the Kdiieational Sy-tein of the Jesuit--," ly Uev. 

 Tlioinas Hughes. The Place of Comenius in 

 tlie History of Education " was decided l>v 

 Niehola< Murray Butler in "The Schoolroom 

 ('lassies," and "Indian Education " formed the 

 theme of Frank \\". lilackmar in " Publicat ions 

 of the American Academy of Political and Social 

 Science." Physical Education in the Public 

 Schools" was an eclectic system of exercises pre- 

 pared by K. Anna Morris;* Hartvig Nissen drew 

 up the - A 15 (' of the Swedish System of Gym- 

 nastics" ; a - Handbook of School Gymnastics 

 of the Swedi>h System " was anonymous; and B. 

 15. Hoffman wrote " The Sloyd System of Wood- 

 working; With a Brief Description of the Eva 

 Rohde Model Series and an Historical Sketch of 

 the Growth of the Manual Training Idea." 

 - Hygienic Requirements of School Furniture" 

 were looked into by G. A. Bobrick. Helen 

 Keller, herself deaf and blind, was the author of 

 the " Souvenir of the First Summer Meeting of 

 the American Association to promote the Teach- 

 ing of Speech to the Deaf. " The Moral In- 

 struction of Children," a series of lectures by Dr. 

 Felix Adler, formed a volume in the "Interna- 

 tional Education Series "; "Children's Rights" 

 wen- vigorously asserted by Mrs. Kate Douglass 

 WiLririn, who has written so charmingly for the 

 amusement of children ; and " Children : Their 

 Models and Critics," were reviewed by Mrs. 

 Auretta Roys Aldrich. " The Place of the Story 

 in Early Education, and other Essays," by Sara 

 E. Wiltse, leads naturally to "Stories for Chil- 

 dren, containing Simple Lessons in Morals," by 

 Lucretia P. Hale. " A Literarv Guide for Homo 

 and School " was prepared by Mary Alice Caller, 

 " A Text-book of Elocution," by Maria Porter 

 Brace, and " The Foundations of Rhetoric " were 

 laid by Adams Sherman Hill. Books of practical 

 value were " English Composition by Practice," 

 by Edward R. Shaw ; " Plain English," anony- 

 mous; "An English Grammar for the Higher 

 Grades in Grammar Schools," adapted by Mrs. 

 Sara E. H. Lock wood from " Essentials of Eng- 

 lish Grammar," by \V. D. Whitney : " Hints for 

 Grammar Lessons," by John A. MacCabe ; " Out- 

 lines of English Grammar," by Harriet Mat- 

 thews; "Selections for memorizing for Primary, 

 Intermediate, and High-School Grades," com- 

 piled by L. C. Foster and Sherman Williams; 

 familiar talks on " Reading and Speaking'' with 

 voung men in colleges and higher schools, by 

 Brainard Gardner Smith; No. 3 of "The In- 

 formation Readers." covering " Man and Ma- 

 terials"; several parts of "The Picturesque 

 Geographical Readers," by Charles F. Kin;;; 

 Vol. II of " How to teach and study Geography 

 by the Brace System," covering North America, 

 bv J. F. Wicks and J. M. Boyer : " The Multi- 

 plication Chant and Gesture Drill," by Liz/.ie 

 Stanley Mnrtyn; J. K. Ell wood's "Table-book 

 and Test Problems in Mathematics " ; an " Ele- 



ineiitary Synt het ic ( iconic! ry," by George Bruce 

 Halslcd ; "Drawing simplified." for school* und 

 self-instruction, by D. R. Aug.-burg; " How to 

 teach Writing," a manual of penmanship de- 

 signed to accompany Applctons. standard 

 books, by Lyiiian D. Smith ; a "Manual of the 

 Natural Movement Method in Writing 

 original self-instructing system, by ('ha; 



. and -I low to teach Paper 'Folding and 

 Cutting: A Practical Manual Training Aid." bv 

 "MacLeod "in the "Manual Trailing > 

 " An Illustrated Dictionary to Xenophon's Anab- 

 jisiV was made from the "Anabasis" itself. 

 not compiled from other dictionaries, by John 

 Williams White and Morris II. Morgan; and 

 Prof. Isaac Flagg revised the " Homeric Diction- 

 ary for Schools and Colleges." translated from 

 the German by Dr. George. Autenrieth. -The 

 Glory of the Imperfect" was the title of an ad- 

 dress given at the first commencement of the 

 Woman's College of Western Ke*er\e I niver- 

 sity, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1891, by George Palmer 

 Herbert. Two papers of interest were " Educa- 

 tion as related to Citizenship, by Rev. John W. 

 Chadwick, in the "Evolution Series," and 

 " School Savings Banks " considered by Sara 

 Louisa Oberholtzer in "Publications of the 

 American Academy of Political and Social 

 Science." 



Fiction. No novel of 1892 attained a dis- 

 tinctive reputation, though writers of note were 

 not idle. F. Marion Crawford produced two 

 volumes : " The Three Fates," a story of New 

 York life, and " Don Orsino," a sequel to " Sara- 

 cinesca " and " Sant' Ilario." William Dean 

 Howells analyzed "The Quality of Mercy." and 

 Mrs. Margaret Deland told in her own charm- 

 ing way " The Story of a Child." Robert Louis 

 Stevenson, with Lloyd Osbourne, recounted the 

 mysterious and amusing adventures of " The 

 Wrecker." Mrs. Burton Harrison (Mrs. Con- 

 stance Gary Harrison) published " Belhaven 

 Tales," " An Edelweiss of the Sierras," and " A 

 Daughter of the South, and Shorter Storio " ; 

 and Mrs. Amelia E. Barr had three volumes, 

 " Love for an Hour is Ix>ve Forever," " The 

 Preacher's Daughter: A Dome.-tic Romance," 

 and "Michael and Theodora," a Russian .-lory. 

 The worship of "The Golden Calf" was in- 

 veighed against bv Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen; 

 and " Marionettes "' was the title of Julien Gor- 

 don'* (Mrs. Van Rennselaer Cruger) latest. 

 "The Clocks of Rondaine, and Other Stories." 

 was all that Frank K. Stockton vouchsafed; 

 while Edgar Fawcett was prolific as usual, 

 "Women must weep," "The Adopted Daugh- 

 ter," and "An Heir to Millions" naving ema- 

 nated from his pen during the year. Barbara 

 Dering," by Amelie Rives (Mrs. J. Armstrong 

 ('hauler), carried to a conclusion the career of 

 the heroine of "The Quick or the Dead ": Mary 

 K. Wilkins wrote her first novel. "Jane Field": 

 also two volumes of. short stories, in which she 

 has proved a proficient "Young Lucretia. and 

 Other Storio." and "The Pot of (iold. and 

 Other Stories." " Koweny in Boston." by Maria 

 Louise Pool, was followed by a sequel, "Mrs. 

 Keats Bradford"; "Zachary "Phips. 1 bv Edwin 

 Lasseter Bynner, was executed with the same 

 fidelity to historic detail which cluiractermd 

 that author's previous work ; Dr. Weir Mitchell 



