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speak — are carefully ascertained and he is given a training which 

 equips him for the life work which he decides to follow. 



We spend ten or twelve million dollars to build and equip 

 a single battleship. The same sum spent for the benefit of these 

 boys who are to be our farmers and industrial workers, and for 

 tin isc girls who are to be our home-makers, would change the 

 whole course of their lives and thereby materially benefit the 

 nation. 



BOOKS AND PERIODICALS 



A new magazine which will be of interest to many readers 

 of the Review, appeared in September. This is the first number 

 of volume one of Vocational Education, issued from the Manual 

 Arts Press at Peoria, Illinois. It is a bi-monthly magazine, 

 planned to cover the broad field suggested by its title. The 

 editorial staff insures a magazine of high grade and includes 

 Charles A. Bennett, Professor of Manual Arts, Bradley Poly- 

 technic Institute, William T. Bawden, University of Illinois, 

 Arthur D. Dean, State Education Department, Albany, New 

 York, Frank M. Leavitt, Associate Professor of Industrial 

 Education, University of Chicago, William E. Roberts, Super- 

 visor of Manual Training, Cleveland, Ohio. 



The early numbers of the magazine are to be devoted to the 

 different types of vocational schools, especially those supported at 

 public expense. 



Two bird books from the press of Witherby and Co., Lon- 

 don, deserve notice. One is a practical guide — Photography for 

 Bird Lovers, by Bentley Beetham, F. Z. S. This is a manual 

 of a hundred and twenty-six pages giving excellent advice to 

 the amateur and some new wrinkles to the expert. It is il- 

 lustrated with very good half tones, results of the author's suc- 

 cess in bird photography. The explanations of methods and sug- 

 gestions regarding apparatus are concise, clear and eminently 

 practicable. 



The second book is a splendid brochure, artistic in its binding, 

 type and illustrations. It is "The Home-Life of a Golden Eagle" 

 by H. B. Macpherson. The author gives us the results of an 

 intimate study of the rearing of a young eagle. Three months, 

 April 23 to July 23, were spent in watching the baby grow from 

 fledgling to the time of its first venturesome flight. The setting 

 of the story is in the Grampian hil 1 s, that rugged mountain region 

 of the Scotch border. The camera caught many delightful pic- 



