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cardboard, rope and cane, leather and stone, and The letterpress, short as it is, covering only 
they also show children engaged in housewifery in | 36 out of the 217 pages of which the book con- 
sists, contains 
many tersely ex- 
pressed = conclu- 
sions Hon tiie 
value of hand- 
work and on 
various matters 
connected with 
school adminis- 
tration, | which 
the author’s ex- 
pervenitelas 
Director of Edu- 
cation of the 
City of Liverpool 
has enabled him 
to form.; ) Mery 
truly he ‘says, 
“Tt is. a senous 
question whether 
the whole sys- 
tem of modern 
education up to 
the most recent 
days has not de- 
voted itself too 
& als tothe A: in assiduously to a 
Fic. 1.—School Gardening. Morrison Council School. From ‘‘ The Thinking Hand.” % one-sided _ intel- 
lectual culture.” 
This is so, and the Board of Education, although 
recognising fully the value of hand-work as a 
ail its branches, in the construction of simple 
scientific apparatus, in gardening, and in other 
forms of hand- 
work. Of these 
illustrations we 
select two, one 
snowing garden- 
ing practice at Le 
the Morrison ee igs oe 
County School, ; ° 
and the _ other 
the apparatus 
anc, samordet's 
made «at wero 
Miatehwa es 
County School. 
Not the least 
instructive  sec- 
tion ofp “Nir: 
Legge’s book is 
that in which are 
found = sug ges- 
tions fot courses 
of instruction in 
hygiene, house- 
hold science, and 
the care of in- 
fants, with sylla- Bs Sst emtied ccm Hee oe eiiticoe : ueteeeaebaneabaiiaieial al 
buses of cookery yy a sce 
and Inundry Fic. 2.—School-made Apparatus and Models. St. Michael's Council school. trom ‘* the Thinking Hand.” 
work. These 
means of educational discipline, has not yet 
realised the urgent need of giving to manual 
cannot fail to serve as useful guides to many 
teachers. 
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