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Education. There was an increase in the num- 

 ber of educational works published during the 

 year over those of 1898. Essays on the Higher 

 Education, four in number, by Prof. George Trum- 

 bull Ladd, discussed questions of importance, and 

 from Levi Seeley we had a History of Education. 

 Prof. William James published Talks to Teach- 

 ers on Psychology and to Students on some of 

 Life's Ideals, and Discussions in Education, by the 

 late Gen. Francis A. Walker, were edited by 

 James Phinney Munroe ; E. C. Branson performed 

 a similar service for David Perkins Page's Theory 

 and Practice of Teaching. Common Sense in Edu- 

 cation and Teaching was recommended by P. A. 

 Barnett as an introduction to practice, and Paul 

 H. Hanus defined Educational Aims and Educa- 

 tional Values. Charles C. Boyer suggested Prin- 

 ciples and Methods of Teaching. Method in Edu- 

 cation was intended as a text-book for teachers 

 by Ruric N. Roark; Joseph Landon supplied A 

 Manual of the Art of Questioning for Training 

 Classes; Harriet M. Scott and Gertrude Buck col- 

 laborated upon a manual for teachers in primary 

 and grammar grades, entitled Organic Education ; 

 and in the International Education Series we had 

 Montaigne on The Education of Children, trans- 

 lated by L. E. Rector, and Letters to a Mother 

 on the Philosophy of Froebel, by Susan E. Blow. 

 Notes on the Development of a Child were con- 

 tinued in Parts III and IV, contributed to the 

 University of California Studies by Milicent Wash- 

 burn Shian, and From the Child's Standpoint 

 was a collection of views of child life and Nature 

 by Florenee Hull Winterburn. Kate Upson Clark 

 made a study of Bringing up Boys. Two small 

 handbooks were The Kindergarten in a Nutshell, 

 by Nora Archibald Smith, and a Bibliography of 

 Child Study, by L. N. Wilson. The Report of 

 the Proceedings of the Second Annual Conven- 

 tion of the National Congress of Mothers, held 

 in the city of Washington, D. C., May 2-7, 1898, 

 was issued; Stuart H. Rowe explained The Phys- 

 ical Nature of the Child and how to Study it; 

 H. Rippon Seymour advocated Physical Training 

 in a handbook for teacher or pupil, which had an 

 introduction by William Taylor, M.D.; and Wilbur 

 P. Bowen prepared A Teacher's Course in Phys- 

 ical Training. Suggestions for Primary and In- 

 termediate Lessons on the Human Body, by Mrs. 

 Ella B. Hallock, may be mentioned also in this 

 connection, and The Story of the Living Machine, 

 by Herbert W. Conn, in Appletons' Library of 

 Useful Studies. A report on The Study of His- 

 tory in Schools made to the American Historical 

 Association by the Committee of Seven was 

 printed in pamphlet form; Helps to the Study 

 of Classical Mythology, for the lower grades and 

 secondary schools, were offered by Prof. Benja- 

 min L. D'Ooge; Historic Art Studies were made 

 by Ruth Janette Warner as an aid for teachers 

 of public schools and colleges in interesting young 

 students in the study of historic art; Geograph- 

 ical Outlines and History, by Isaac N. Miner, was 

 practical in its nature; from Henry McCormick 

 came Suggestions on Teaching Geography; and 

 Object Lessons in Geography for Standards 1, 2, 

 and 3 were the work of T. F. G. Dexter and A. 

 H. Garlick. Part I of Composition, by Arthur 

 Wesley Dow, was issued, being a series of exer- 

 cises selected from a new system of art educa- 

 tion. Elements of Rhetoric, by Alphonso G. New- 

 comer, was intended as a course in plain prose 

 composition; Composition and Rhetoric for 

 Schools was the result of collaboration by Profs. 

 Robert Herrick and Lindsay Todd Damon; Hor- 

 ace S. and Martha Tarbell presented Lessons in 

 Language and Grammar; E. Oram Lyte, an Ad- 



vanced Grammar and Composition; and G. R. 

 Carpenter, Elements of Rhetoric and English 

 Composition, for a first high-school course. The 

 Dictator was a collection of graded dictation ex- 

 ercises for the use of teachers and students of 

 shorthand by Mina Ward. Webster Wells pub- 

 lished a New Higher Algebra and The Essen- 

 tials of Geometry; William J. Milne, a Plane 

 and Solid Geometry, a Key to the work, and a 

 Grammar-school Algebra; and L. A. Blanchard 

 and J. L. Andre" offered The Algebraic Solution of 

 Equations of any Degree by a novel, simple, and 

 direct method. Clay Modeling for Schools, by 

 Anna M. Holland, contained a progressive course 

 for primary schools and grammar grades, and K. 

 Breul treated briefly of The Teaching of Modern 

 Foreign Languages in Secondary Schools. Illus- 

 trations of Logic were supplied by Paul T. Lafleur. 

 Wilbur S. Jackman was the author of manual of 

 Nature Study for Grammar-school Grades; Seed 

 Dispersal, by W. J. Beal, was intended as an ele- 

 mentary botany; while an elementary zoology 

 by Charles F. Holder was entitled Stories of Ani- 

 mal Life, and appeared in Eclectic School Read- 

 ings. The same author also contributed Our 

 Country's Flag and the Flags of Foreign Coun- 

 tries to Appletons' Series of Home Readers. The 

 Story of the British Race was written for Apple- 

 tons' Library of Useful Stories by John Munro. 

 Colonial Life in New Hampshire was described 

 fop children by James H. Fassett, Sophie Swett 

 tmd Stories of Maine for their benefit, and Ella 

 Reeve Ware published Talks about Authors and 

 their Work. Tales told out of School, by E. S. 

 Ellis, belonged to the Standard Teachers' Library, 

 another issue of which was Commissioner Hume: 

 A Story of New York Schools, by C. W. Bardeen, 

 a sequel to his Roderick Hume. Educational Nug- 

 gets were gathered for the Nugget Series from 

 the works of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, Herbert 

 Spencer, Harris, Butler, and Eliot by . John R. 

 Howard. F. R. Clow discussed Economics as a 

 School Study, F. H. Clark drew up Outlines of 

 Civics, and Charles Fletcher Dole sketched briefly 

 the future duties of The Young Citizen. Some 

 Unrecognized Functions of our State Universities 

 were the subject of the inaugural address of John 

 Butler Johnson as dean of the College of Mechan- 

 ics and Engineering, University of Wisconsin; 

 Prof. James E. Russell made a study of the his- 

 tory, organization, and methods of German High- 

 er Schools; Vol. I appeared of Universities and 

 their Sons, edited by Joshua Chamberlain, to be 

 followed by four more volumes; Yale: Her 

 Campus, Classrooms, and Athletics were ex- 

 haustively treated by Louis Sheldon Welch and 

 Walter Camp, Samuel J. Elder contributing an 

 introduction to the work; Where to Educate, 

 1898-1899, was a guide to the best private schools, 

 higher institutions of learning, etc., in the United 

 States, edited by Grace Power Thomas; and from 

 Flavel S. Thomas, M. D., came A Dictionary of 

 University Degrees. To educational history be- 

 long Emma Willard and her Pupils; or, Fifty 

 Years of Troy Female Seminary, 1822-1872, and 

 A Beautiful Life and its Associations, by Anna 

 Howell Clarkson (Mrs. James S. Clarkson), being 

 that of Mrs. Drusilla Allen Stoddard. Webster's 

 Collegiate Dictionary was abridged from Noah 

 Webster's International Dictionary; the Ameri- 

 can Educational Catalogue for 1899 was compiled 

 as usual ; and for the tiny tots we had a collec- 

 tion of Stick and Pea Plays, by Charles Stuart 

 Pratt, with 70 working designs by the author. 

 Songs of the Tree Top and Meadow, compiled by 

 Lida B. McMurry and Agnes S. Cook, and Songs 

 in Season for Primary and Intermediate Grades, 



