The Manual of the Guild and School of Handicraft. Edited
by C. R. Ashbee. (Cassell and Co.)—This is a useful little publica- tion, conveying much information about the Guild and its work, and some chapters devoted to the requirements of the student, lists of tools, and their expense, a short account of various woods, a few of the rudiments of joinery, and some hints about the teaching of carving. It is intended as a guide to County Councils and technical teachers ; and County Councils, it is to be hoped, will be thankful for this somewhat ambitious production, which is a manual of the Guild and a practical text-book all in one. As to the question of teacher v. artisan, the Teachers' Com- mittee think the teacher to be the best instructor of the young, or, as they put it, the teacher is to instruct the artisan of one generation, the artisan the teacher of another.
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