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Happiness in the School. By C. W. Bailey, M.A. (Blackie.

2s. net.)—Mr. Bailey's book is a practical but very elementary account of educational liberalism in some of its aspects and in the modified form in which it appears in most old-established schools. The teacher cannot, he insists, study the instincts of children too carefully. It is the satisfying of these instincts which gives education its natural force. Unhappy the teacher whose methods are in opposition to it. At different ages different instincts are uppermost. " It is the main business of teaching to 'gather rosebuds ' while we may, and to use each instinct at the time of its highest development." Time and oppor- tunity are only presented once to the educator.