In The Recently Published Board Of Education Report On The
Teaching of English " what should be done was rendered abundantly clear : how it could be done" was a problem left for the teachers themselves to solve. The Incorporated......
Ruminations Of Ruffles. By G. Winifred Taylor. (basil...
53. net.) Canine autobiography is not original and is often inept. Miss Taylor's is, perhaps, above the average.......
A Wreath Of Stars. By Louise Gerard. (mills And Boon.
7s. 6<1.) A melodramatic romance by a prolific author about a young English officer, crippled at the front, who is kidnapped in Venice by the usual sort of Italian villains.......
The Teaching Of Children.
The French Tradition in Education. By H. C. Barnard. (Cambridge University Press. 103. 6d.) What a pleasure it is to come on a really good book! This volume, in which Mr.......
Dominie Abroad. By A. S. Neill. (herbert Jenkins. 53. Net.)
It is unfortunate that Mr. Neill has so mixed fact and facetiousness. The longer and more valuable part of this book deals with the international school at Hellerau, where he......
Politics And Economics.
French Parties and Politics. By Roger H. Soltau. (H. Milford. 2s. 6d. net.) Mr. Soltau, who is the Lecturer on French History at Leeds University, has done a real service to......
The Other End. By R. Ellis Roberts. (palmer. 7s. 6d.
net.) The dust-cover announcement of Mr. Roberts's ghost stories !ontains the most startling passage in the book. "Mr. Ellis Roberts's work is that of an artist. In other words,......
'the Untamed. By David Gre'w. (fisher Unwin. 7s. 6d.) A
story of the half-wild horses of the prairie. Mr. Grew shows evident familiarity with his atmosphere, and inci- dentally exposes a great deal of cruelty to animals practised on......
Will You Read This ? By " Trinda." (duckworth. 5s.
net.) " Trinda's " short stories are not literature, but they are harmless. They belong to that category of bad books that are generally called "readable." " Trinda " has a......
Trade And Industry Of Finland. (helsingfors : Simelius.)...
being an educated people, believe in propaganda by means of good books. Some twenty years ago, when they were resisting the Tsar's attempts to annul their Con- stitution and......
This Book Cannot Be Considered An Important Contribution...
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......
The Valley Of Ghosts. By Edgar Wallace. (odhains. 7s. 6d.)
This is not a spookological exercise, but an excellent murder- story of life in a garden city.......
Guild Socialism. By Niles Carpenter. (appleton. 103. 6d....
Mr. Carpenter, a lecturer at Harvard, has written the clearest and most informing exposition of the new Guild Socialist theories that we have yet seen. He has taken great pains......
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