A SUNDAY SCHOOL IN UTOPIA. By the Rev. E. F.
Braley. (Macmillan. 5s. net.)
As a sign that the Sunday School movement is recognizing the need for its teachers to be adequately equipped in the science and art of an educational method this book is to be welcomed. Too often the heads of religious classes, especially in villages, are unable to contribute their maximum of service because (in spite of their earnest and praiseworthy efforts) they do not possess sufficient general culture, and no training at all in the science of teaching. Mr. Braley, who is the Vice-President and Master of Method in Culham Training College for Schoolmasters, has written in a vivid and simple manner a useful essay on the practical work of the Sunday School. Not only does he deal with its relation to the com- munity generally, but he explains the psychology of childhood and the practical use to be made of a knowledge of it. There is a danger, of course, that the inadequately-educated enthusiast will interpret his advice too literally, and we cannot help thinking that this would have been avoided had his suggestions been leavened with a little more humour.
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