The Child at Home, by Nancy Catty (Sidgwick and Jackson,
as. 6d.) is another of those books which arc sensible in essence but irritating in expression. Everything in it could have been said in a quarter of the space :
" A good many of the difficulties in the schoolroom arise from the fact that a teacher is not clear about what she wants to teach, and has not made sure that she can deal with each step in the process before she begins the lesson."
1 could wish that the author of this book had applied this truism to herself before she sat down to write it. Not, I repeat, that it is not sense ; but too much of it is obvious, and too much of it is repetition.
I cannot quite figure out how the last book in this bundle got into it at all. It does not seem quite to fit in with the rest. It is called With a Motor Trod: in West Africa, by Wilfrid D. Hambly (Appleton, Ss. ad.). The publishers call it " a fascinating lesson and a glorious adventure rolled into one." Anyway, Mr. Hambly has been a good deal nearer his subject than one or two of the authors referred to above.
WALTER B. TIZZARD.
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