114 Notes and Comments. 
“HOW TO TEACH NATURE STUDY. * 
This work, by Mr. T. W. Hoare, a lecturer and instructor 
in Nature Study, and author of the well-known * Look About 
You’ Nature books, is, as it professes to be, ‘a practical 
working guide for teachers.’ It is certainly a teachers’ 
guide, and contains various schemes for the different divisions 
of diiferent types of schools. There are chapters on butterflies 
and moths, ice and snow, soil, spiders, aquaria and vivaria ; 
but the major portion of the volume is devoted to botany— 
a subject with which the author seems to be particularly 
familiar. Mr. Hoare has a pleasant way of indicating the 
lines upon which teachers should work in order to get the 
most out of their scholars. There are numerous diagrams and 
illustrations from photographs. 
“THE NATURE STUDY IDEA,’ * 
This is ‘ An interpretation of the new school movement to 
put the young into relation and sympathy with Nature,’ by 
Mr. L. H. Bailey; and the fact that a third edition has been 
called for is an indication of its popularity. The book deals 
with the historical side of the movement. After giving infor- 
mation on what to teach and what not to teach ; what Nature 
Study is, and what it is not, the author gives a series of questions 
and rephes thereto for the benefit of the reader. For example : 
“Now that there are so many Nature Study books, how shall 
I choose the most useful one ?’ ‘Only by finding out what 
you want, etc.’ Quite so. And again: “ How shall I acquire 
sufficient knowledge to enable me to teach nature study ?’ 
“In the same way that you acquire other knowledge—by means 
of work and study. There 1 is no way by which you can dream 
it or absorb it, etc. ~ W. ll not the nature study work interfere 
with school discipline : ?’ ‘ That all depends on what you mean 
by . discipline.” “If you Gmean:periects order. the child 
sitting erect with clasped hands, then nature study work may 
annoy you,’ etc. It is most entertaining. 
“ THE BOOK OF NATURE STUDY.’* 
This magnificent work, published under the editorship 
of Dr. J. B. Farmer, is now completed, the sixth volume being 
before us. It deals entirely with ‘ The Physical Environment ’ 
the first eight chapters being by Dr. Marion I. Newbegin, and 
the remaining thirteen by Prof, W: W: Watts, F.RiS)- Dr 
Newbegin deals with ‘ Weather and Climate’; * Precipitation ’ 
' Precipitation® and. Vegetation -=) Snow. and. dice! swe dine 
Sky: The Sun’; “The Seasomsetc:. ¢ ¢ DheMoonseenats 
Watts refers to ‘Denudation’; ‘Deposition’; ‘Rocks’; ‘Models’; 
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* London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd. 316 pp. 3/6 net. 
* New York: The Macmillan Company. 246 pp. 
* London: The Caxton Publishing Co. 244 pp., 7/6. 
Naturalist, 
