Physical Education in Relation to School Life. By R. E.
Roper. (Allen and Unwin. 2s. Od. net.)—This is a stimulating little book on a subject whose immense importance is very far from being realized by education authorities. Games are not enough, the author says ; three half-hour gymnastic lessons a week are the minimum required, and he has found in the bust Public Schools that thirty per cent. of the children need individual attention as well. His chapter on " The Relative Strength of Girls and Boys " is eminently sensible. " At present there is not sufficient evidence to show that—given equal opportunities of development—girls are physically weaker than boys." He suggests, as an alternative to the Venus of Milo as the ideal of graceful womanhood, the " Girl Starting for a Race," which is just as fine a Greek statue as tho other.
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