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Manual of American Grape Growing. U. P. Hedrick, Horticulturist of the 

 New York Agricultural Experiment Station. Published by the Mac- 

 Millan Company. 



This new addition to the Rural Manvial series edited by L. H. Bailey is 

 indeed a valuable piece of work, for tho there have been many good books on 

 grapes, still a new one which includes the new varieties, the up-to-date methods 

 of growing and the latest ideas on the various phases of the subject, has been 

 much needed in this rapidly advancing industry and this latest addition fulfills 

 the lack in a satisfactory manner. 



Both the commercial and amateur grower will find his questions answered in 

 a clear and comprehensive manner. The following are the headings of the 

 chapters — The Domestication of the Grape; Grape R^ons and their deter- 

 minants; Propagation; Stocks and Resistant Vines; The Vineyard and its 

 Management; Fertilizers for Grapes; Priming the Grape in Eastern America; 

 Training the Grape in Eastern America; Grape Pnming on the Pacific Coast; 

 Eiaropean Grapes in Eastern America; Grapes under glass; Grape Pests and 

 their Control; Marketing Grapes; Grape Products; Grap>e Breeding; Mis- 

 cellanies, Grape Botany; Varieties of Grapes. 



There are over thirty large plates of varieties and over fifty figures covering 

 many points of interest. This book shotild prove of great value to all grape 

 growers, large and small. 



The Project Method in Education. A book that suggests the desirability of 



placing aU school work upon a project basis. By Mendel E. Branon, 



Professor of Geography and History, Harris Teachers Collie, St. Louis, 



Mo. In Library of Educational Methods. Cloth. 282 pages. Price 



$1.75 net. The Gorham Press, Boston. 



Probably no topic is being more generally discussed in educational circles 



than the project method. Many educators and teachers have asserted that it 



its desirable and possible to place the entire school work upon a project basis. 



This stimulating book is a pioneer in the project field. 



According to the author's viewpoint a purposeful tmit of activity in which 

 the individual engages whole heartedly is a project. A school project, in addi- 

 tion, should be desirable and graded so that rapid, desirable progress will be 

 made. To secure real projects for the children, the teacher must strongly 

 motivate her work. The failures in project teaching, it is asserted, are due to 

 the inability of the teacher to get the pupil to adopt the problem involved in 

 the unit of activity, as a real personal problem. 



The author brings out clearly the desirabihty of centering the work about 

 a series of problems. He deplores the device of capping the old outline organi- 



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