BOOK REVIEWS 161 



Part I, Industrial Education:' Typical Experiments De- 

 scribed and Interpreted. 124 pp. 



Part II, Agricultural Education in the Secondary Schools. 

 113 pp. 



The University of Chicago Press. Each part, T5 cents. 



This report furnished the basis of some of the discussions 

 of the society at the St. Louis meeting February 26th. Part II 

 includes the following papers : 



I. The Training of Teachers for Secondary Courses in 

 Agriculture, by A. C. ^^lonahan, Specialist in Agricultural Educa- 

 tion, Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C. 



II. The \'ocational Agricultural School, by Rufus W. Stim- 

 son. Agent for Agricultural Education, Boston. Mass. 



III. State-Aided Departments of Agriculture in Public 

 High Schools, by D. J. Crosby, Specialist in Agricultural Educa- 

 tion, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 



IV. High-School Agriculture Without State Subsidy, by 

 W. H. French, Professor of Agricultural Education, Michigan 

 Agricultural College, East Lansing, Michigan. 



V. Short Courses and Extension Work in Agriculture for 

 High Schools : 



(a) In the South, by H. F. Button, Director of the 



Manassas Agricultural High School, Manassas, \'a. 

 (h) In the North, by F. R. Crane. University of Wiscon- 

 sin, ^ladison, Wis. 

 \T. In Public High Schools Should Agriculture be Taught 

 as Agriculture or as Applied Science? by 



(a) William R. Hart, Professor of Agriculture, Mass- 

 achusetts Agricultural College, Amherst, Mass. 



(b) George F. Warren, Professor of Farm Manage- 

 ment. Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 



The titles and authors are guarantee of the valuable nature 

 of the discussions. 



The Monkey Folk of South Africa, F. W. Fitzsimons. 

 Longmans, Green & Co., 1911. Pp. IX + 167. 



The author of this book is a Director of the Port Elizabeth 



Museum in Cape Colony. The style of the book is rather sur- 



fprising at first, as it is written as if the author were merely a 



Istenographer for the monkey folk, who tell their own story. The 



[author's purpose is stated in the Preface. It is to help "our boys 



and girls to take a real live interest in the Creator's handiwork." 



The book is exceedingly interesting reading, and portrays the 



