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People," by Edward A. Freeman; "England after the Norman 

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 of the Pacific," by Fred. Perry Powers; "Coxcomb and Co- 

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 Reform and the Socialists," by Robert Ellis Thompson, D.D. ; 

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C. W. Bardeen of Syracuse sends us a small pamphlet enti- 

 tled " Tiedemann's Record of Infant Life." It is from the French 

 translation of a German work, with a commentary interwoven by 

 M. Miclielan, the English version being by Bernard Perez. The 

 original author, who lived about a century ago, records in this 

 work his observations of his own son in the first two years of his 

 life, noting down many points that will be interesting to those 

 who are engaged in similar researches. The phenomena of child- 

 life, as thus recorded by him, differ in many respects from those 

 noticed by Darwin and other recent observers, — a fact which 



shows that caution is necessary in generalizing from such obser- 

 vations ; but we cannot enter into particulars here. Mr. Bardeen 

 also sends us three papers read before the National Educational 

 Association at St. Paul in July last. One is by himself, on the 

 " Effect of the College Preparatory High School upon Attendance 

 and Scholarship in the Lower Grades," in which he takes the 

 ground that the maintenance of a classical course in the public 

 high schools helps to raise the whole tone of the school, and is 

 therefore useful even to those who take the English course. He 

 does not quite make clear, however, how the requisite classical 

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 the usual age for entering the high school. Another of the pa- 

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 motion," in which he repeats the well-worn arguments in favor 

 of examinations, but without offering any thing new, and 

 showing, as it seems to us, an insufficient sense of the abuses to 

 which examinations are apt to lead. Mr. Henry Sabin, State 

 superintendent of Iowa, treats of " Organization and System vs. 

 Originality and Individuality," taking strong ground against the 

 mechanical system of teaching and school organization now so 

 much in vogue as injurious to both teacher and pupil. All the 

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