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This book cannot be considered an important contribution to the

technical literature of education or even of pedagogics. Here are, rather, essays whose matter consists largely in accepted axioms about teaching. The book, however, is pleasant enough and would be useful to put into the hands either of mothers who meant to teach their own children or of very young teachers. No doubt many such readers would not be repelled by the book's somewhat sugary tone.