SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of the week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.]
We gladly renew our annual welcome to the Journal of Educe'. turn, 1900 (W. Rice, 7s. 6d.) Few volumes, we imagine, of a similar kind could so well stand the teat of being tasted, so to speak, at random by the general reader. We must suppose that the taster is a person of intelligence, who knows what education means. He will find much more than a record of facts about teaching and the technical information that concerns universities and schools. These, indeed, are given, but the problems of the day— the same, for the most part, as the problems of the past and the future—are ably treated. Military education, for instance, and "conscription in schools " are dealt with. What a significant sentence is this :—" Every master of an army class knows that the moment a boy joins that class his education stops and his cramming begins" ! Putting special subjects aside, it will be found that these pages are full of accurate information, and thought vigorously expressed.
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