School and Home Life. By T. G. Rooper, M.A. (A.
Brown and Sons.)—These "Essays and Lectures on Current Educational Topics" touch on most of the educational subjects which divide the opinions of the day, and on some on which there is something like unanimity. The author is always sensible and instructive, but we think that his work is most valuable when he goes, so to speak, to the root of things, and discusses the essential principles, the mental, ethical, and psychological facts on which education is, or ought to be, founded. We are so busy debating about matters which may concern English parties very much, but are of the smallest possible importance to English children, that we lose sight of the real science of teaching. " The Pot of Green Feathers," to take an instance, is an acute analysis of the observing faculty of children. (The strange title comes from the writer having heard a little girl describe a pot of ferns as "a pot of green feathers.") The next essay, "Drawing in Infant School," takes something of the same line. " Lyonnesse" is an excellent study, in a concrete form, of " Education at Home versus Educa- tion at a Public School." We may also mention " The Modern Training of Girls," "Reverence ; or, The Ideal in Education," " Object Teaching," and " Frobel."
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