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As a reference book for the school library in a school devoting 

 considerable time to agrictilture, this would make a good addition 

 to the library, and in the hands of a well versed teacher it might 

 serve as a text in animal husbandry It seems, however, to the 

 writer that it is rather a book of information than a pupil's text 

 book ; the pupil who uses it might get a good deal of information 

 but little education. That criticism, however, is one that is 

 almost inevitable at the present until the relatively new material 

 that is serving as subject matter for a text of this sort shall be 

 worked over enough to determine how to make it of large value 

 educationally. The subject matter is well classified, clearly 

 presented and gives a wealth of detail; still the underlying prin- 

 ciples are usually made prominent. 



Health Work in the Schools. Hoag & Terman. xiv + 318. 



Houghton, Mifflin Co. $1.60. 



This is one of the Riverside text books in education put out by 

 Houghton, Mifflin Co. We have reviewed in previous numbers 

 of the magazine two other books in this series, and this one de- 

 serves the same sort of thorough commendation. The opening 

 chapter on The Social Responsibility for the Health of School 

 Children is a statement of the school's realization of its duty to 

 look after the physical welfare of the child as well as its mental 

 life. The next two chapters deal with the scope of the work and 

 the organization and will be largely suggestive to the school super- 

 intendent. Chapter four deals with the work of the school nurse. 

 Chapter five is an exceedingly valuable chapter for the teacher 

 and deals with the problem of grading the children in health. 



The next two chapters are on the school clinic. Several chap- 

 ters follow on transmissible diseases, then there is one on the open 

 air schools. Chapter 13, on school housekeeping, the janitor 

 should read. The rest of the book deals with the problem of 

 teaching hygiene, including sex hygiene and the hygiene of the 

 teacher. Chapter 18, the last chapter, is a survey of what the 

 world is doing for the health of school children. In the appendix 

 there is a list of books for the teachers' library. This is quite an 

 indispensable book to anyone who is trying to keep up with the 

 health work that is being done in the schools. It is one that can 

 profitably be read by the layman as well as the teacher and it will 

 certainly be read by parents — at least those who arc trying to 



