some of the dissatisfaction that is widely felt with the
working of our educational system finds expression in Citizens to Be, by Miss M. L. V. Hughes (Constable and Co., 4s. 6d.
net). The book is an earnest and carefully elaborated plea for the closer combination of the aims of education with those of social reform in the widest sense of the phrase. We do not feel by any means sure of our agreement with the ideals at which Miss Hughes is aiming, and which are summed up under the unprepossessing name of " Humanism "; but we cannot discuss them here, and must allowour readers to judge them in the moderately expressed pages of the book itself. Professor J. H. Muirhead has written a preface, in the course of which ho remarks that the war may be regarded as a struggle between two opposing educational ideals ;—
" On the one hand, the disinterested development of the powers of the individual, to the end of giving him his place in a com- munity of free and equal citizens with an outlook beyond to a world-order of like communities ; on the other, Community truly, and self-surrouder of individuals to their piece lend d Ilt /ea in it, but a community narrowed down ton particular nation and State, carrying with it the regimentation of powers and the
subordination of will to the end of its own particular purpose of racial predominance."
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