1829. Young, George H. The illustrative teachings of Jesus. New York, Chicago [etc.] F. H. Revell company [1914] 230 p. 12°.

First, an introductory chapter suggests some salient features of Christ's teaching. Second, the illustrations have been classified and discussed under two general divisions: "Illustrations drawn from life," and "Illustrations drawn from nature."

MANUAL AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING.

1830. Bacon, Raymond F. Progress in industrial fellowships. Journal of the Franklin institute, 178: 623-32, November 1914

Describes the establishment of the Mellon institute of industrial research and school of specific industries of the University of Pittsburgh. Organized for large scale experiments. Not a competitor of commercial laboratories.

1831. Brisco, Norris A. Economics of efficiency. New York, The Macmillan company, 1914. xv, 385 p. 12°.

CONTENTS.-1. Economic need of efficiency.-2. Efficiency.-3. Management and the plant.-4. Management and labor.-5. Methods.-6. Hiring of labor.7. Training.-8. Habits.-9. Fatigue.-10. Working environments.-11. Welfare work.-12. Accidents.-13. Fire prevention.-14. Wages.-15. Scientific piecerate systems.-16. Organized labor and efficiency methods. Questions and References follow each chapter.

"The chief aim of this book is to open the eyes of business men to the underlying principles of efficiency, to emphasize the importance of these principles, and to explain their methods and workings." Among the topics treated are Educational efficiency and Industrial training.

1832. Dearle, Norman B. Industrial training, with special reference to the conditions prevailing in London. London, P. S. King & son, 1914. xiii, 596 p. 8°. (Studies in economics and political science, ed. by the Director of the London School of economics and political science, no. 39)

1833. Foos, Charles S. Manual training in public schools. Atlantic educational journal, 10: 16-18, 57-59, September, October 1914.

Outline of courses in seatwork, manual training, and household science for elementary and high schools.

1834. Gerwig, George W. European industrial and continuation schools. Pittsburgh school bulletin, 8: 2038-42, October 1914.

Also reprinted in pamphlet form by the Board of public education, Pittsburgh, Pa., from its minutes.

The writer thinks that there is a special opportunity and obligation before Pittsburgh of doing for America through Pittsburgh what Dr. Kerschensteiner has done for Germany through Munich.

1835. Hailmann, W. N. Adjustment of the common school curriculum to the vocational needs of today. Manual training and vocational education, 16:129-38, November 1914.

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This article comes from a man who knows school problems as a teacher, a superintendent of public schools, and a professor of pedagogy On

account of his progressive attitude toward school problems, his point of view is of special value in the study of present problems."

1836. Hasty, Philip S. The present status of vocational work in the elementary school. Manual training and vocational education, 16: 139-45, November 1914.

First of a series of two papers.

1837. Iowa state teachers' association.

Committee on vocational education and vocational guidance. A survey and preliminary report. Des Moines, Iowa, Department of public instruction, 1914. 96 p. 8°. Members of committee: Dr. W. A. Jessup, Prof. C. P. Colegrove, Prof. G. M. Wilson; M. G. Clark, chairman, Sioux City; Mrs. Anna L. Burdick, secretary, Des Moines; Hon. A. M. Deyoe, honorary member.

Some of the principal topics of this report are the following: Elimination of pupils from the schools in Iowa; Tables summarizing vocational information obtained from parents, pupils, and school officers; Truancy, delinquency, and juvenile court reports; Permanency of agriculture as a vocation; Attitude of employers and organized labor toward vocational education; Employment certificate provisions of different states; Vocational guidance.

1838. Leavitt, Frank M. To be educated or not to be educated? Industrialarts magazine, 2: 189-92, November 1914.

Gives some lessons from Massachusetts, showing that the natural growth of industrial training thru a development of the department of manual arts has, without state aid, accomplished considerably more in the way of genuine industrial training for the fourteen year old boys of Boston than has the special state-aided plan.

1839. Lory, Charles A. The status of secondary vocational training in Colorado. Colorado school journal, 30: 7-12, October 1914.

In order to find at first hand what Colorado high schools are doing in vocational training, a questionnaire was sent to 68 superintendents. The replies to the questionnaire are summarized in this article.

1840. National society for the promotion of industrial education. Synopsis of the findings of the vocational education survey of the city of Richmond by the General survey committee. New York, National society for the promotion of industrial education [1914] 62 p. 8°.

This synopsis gives a brief account of the organization and method of the survey, and of some of the most important information bearing on the problem of vocational education for Richmond.

1841. New York (City) Board of education.

Industrial conference. Wash

ington Irving high school, June 29, 1914. New York, Department of education, 1914. 61 p. 8°.

Contains addresses by Thomas W. Churchill, John Purroy Mitchel, Charles A. Prosser, Gustave Straubenmüller, William A. Prendergast, H. E. Miles, and William Wirt.

1842. Robinson, Karl Davis. Stoking through school. Harper's weekly, 59: 447-48, November 7, 1914.

illus.

"A successful experiment in Missouri, where the School of hard knocks has been made into Park college."

Describes the work of Park college, Parkville, Mo.

1843. Westermann, W. L. Vocational training in antiquity. School review, 22: 601-10, November 1914.

An interesting presentation of the subject of vocational training in ancient Greece and Rome; also the period of Ptolemaic-Greek and Roman domination of Egypt.

1844. Wilson, G. M. Permanency of farming as a vocation and its educational significance. Midland schools, 29: 68-70, November 1914.

The writer has based his article on data collected by the Iowa state college from the total population of a typical farming community of Iowa. show that farming is an unusually permanent occupation.

VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE.

1845. Lewis, Ervin Eugene.

The data

Vocational guidance in high schools. Iowa City, Iowa, The University, 1914. [23] p. 8°. (Bulletin of the State university of Iowa. University extension bulletin no. 6, July 4, 1914.)

1846. Smith, William Hawley. Vocational guidance. Industrial-arts maga

zine, 2: 234-40, December 1914.

The author gives his experience in vocationally guiding himself, the boys and girls whom he taught, and the boys employed in his furniture factory. He emphasizes two points in the matter of vocational guidance, first, inborn ability, and second, competitive efficiency.

AGRICULTURE, SCHOOL GARDENS.

1847. Bricker, Garland Armor. Agricultural education for teachers. York [etc.] American book company [1914] 172 p. illus. 12°

New

1848. Burkett, Charles William; Stevens, Frank Lincoln and Hill, Daniel Harvey. Agriculture for beginners. Rev. ed. Boston, New York

[etc.] Ginn and company [1914] 355 p. illus. 12o.

Accompanied by a pamphlet, How to teach agriculture, revised, 22 p.

1849. Joyce, Alice V. School gardening in Portland, Oregon. review, 10: 275-81, October 1914.

Nature-study

Read at the annual meeting of the National school garden association, Salt Lake City, July 11, 1913.

HOME ECONOMICS.

1850. Palmer, Cornelia.

A plan for the development of home economics along the line of practical education. Rural educator, 4:54-56, SeptemberOctober 1914.

Gives a general scheme of home economics education from kindergarten to university.

COMMERCIAL EDUCATION.

1851. Rose, Mary Swartz. Food for school boys and girls. New York city, Teachers college, Columbia university [1914] 15 p. diagr. 8°. (Teachers college bulletin. 5th ser. no. 12. Technical education bulletin no. 23)

1852. Kahn, Joseph and Klein, Joseph J. Principles and methods in commercial education; a text-book for teachers, students, and business men. New York, The Macmillan company, 1914. 439 p. 12°. Bibliography follows each chapter.

This "

pioneer work" aims to raise the standard of the commercial teacher and give the business man an appreciation of the value of a theoretical education in correlation with practical work. It considers mainly commercial education in secondary schools, because in these pedagogic training is most urgent.

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION.

1853. Graves, William W. Some factors tending toward adequate instruction in nervous and mental diseases. Journal of the American medical association, 63: 1707-13, November 14, 1914.

Discusses the present degree of indifference on the part of the medical profession generally toward neurology and psychiatry. Says that the standard medical curriculum of the schools does not devote sufficient time and space to these studies. Gives statistics of 85 medical schools in the United States showing time and place factors in neurology and psychiatry in the clinical years of the institutions. Says that medical educators should consider neurology and psychiatry as fundamental and not as highly specialized clinical branches." 1854. Meltzer, S. J. Headship and organization of clinical departments of first-class medical schools. Science, n. s. 40: 620-28, October 30, 1914. Says that election to headship "must be based upon evidence that for the past years the appointee has been continuously a close student of modern medicine and showed efficiency in teaching, as well as in research, in the scientific and practical fields of medicine. The work of the department should be conducted with the aid of all three classes or groups, but especially with the aid of the scientific assistants."

1855. Whipple, George C. Public health education. Science, n. s. 40: 581-88, October 23, 1914.

Discusses the school for health officers conducted by Harvard university and the Massachusetts institute of technology. Gives curriculum. Thinks it a mistake" to make the medical degree a prerequisite to public health positions."

1856. Wormser, I. M. The results of a comparative study of the examination questions framed by state boards of bar examiners. Yale law journal, 24: 34-42, November 1914.

Advocates raised standards of admission to the bar.

CIVIC EDUCATION.

1857. Kiernan, Frank. The great adventure of democracy. Preparing for it by self-government in the public schools. Craftsman, 26: 626-30, September 1914.

Good results from student self-government.

1858. Swain, Joseph. The relation of the teacher to American citizenship. American primary teacher, 33: 86-87, November 1914.

BOY SCOUTS.

1859. Oakes, G. H. Mayer. The educational aspect of the boy scout movement. American schoolmaster, 7: 337-51, October 1914.

A short survey of the boy scout movement, its organization and methods. 1860. Reaney, M. Jane. The psychology of the boy scout movement. Pedagogical seminary, 21: 407-11, September 1914.

EDUCATION OF WOMEN.

1861. Cauer, Friedrich. Primaner und primanerin. Frauenbildung, 13: 314-20, August 1914.

A dissenting reply to Gymnasialdirektor Dr. Georg Rosenthal's article on the same question in an earlier number of the same periodical.

A second reply to Dr. Rosenthal's article, by Rassfeld, follows in the same periodical, p. 320-27.

1862. Martin, Gertrude S. The education of women and sex equality. Annals of the American academy of political and social science, 56:39-46, November 1914.

Says that woman is working her way "slowly and sometimes painfully toward a solution of her peculiar problem-how to reconcile the conflicting claims of her own individuality and of the race."

1863. Rosenthal, Georg. Der primaner und die primanerin; versuch einer vergleichenden charakteristik. Frauenbildung, 13: 217-30, May 1914. A comparison of the differences in attitude to their studies of the young men and the young women in the upper classes of a gymnasium and a höhere mädchenschule in Berlin. On the whole, the young men are credited with higher qualifications. On the other hand, the writer wishes to be fair, and presents his conclusions as tentative conclusions only, incidentally making very acute reflections on pedagogical methods and purposes.

1864. Wood, Mary I. Civic activities of women's clubs. Annals of the American academy of political and social science, 56: 78-87, November 1914. Foreword written by Mrs. P. V. Pennybacker. Work of women's clubs in promoting libraries, manual training, etc.

1865. Brown, John B.

NEGROES AND INDIANS.

Indian school gardens in eastern Oklahoma. Southern

workman, 43: 623-26, November 1914.

1866. Brown, John B. The "way out" for the Indian. Indian school journal, 15:119-22, November 1914.

Extracts from an address before the Northeastern Oklahoma teachers' association.

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The author thinks that the way out" for the Indian is through the public school,

1867. Washington, Booker T. A remarkable triple alliance: how a Jew is helping the negro through the Y. M. C. A. Outlook, 108: 485–92,

October 28, 1914.

The philanthropies of Julius Rosenwald.
Men's Christian association.

Educational activities of Young

EDUCATION OF DEFECTIVES.

1868. Pierce, Jerry A. The experience system of speech. Volta review, 16: 739-44, October 1914.

Writer says there is a strong similarity between learning a new language and acquiring a knowledge of speech-reading.

1869. Reeves, Edith. Care and education of crippled children in the United States. Introduction by H. H. Hart. New York, Survey associates, inc., 1914. 252 p. illus. 8°. (Russell Sage foundation publication.)

EDUCATION EXTENSION.

1870. Kruse, Paul J. Some problems of the evening school. 22: 591-600, November 1914.

School review,

Problems connected with the instruction of foreigners in English and civics. Selection of teachers, etc. Presents tables of statistics showing general attendance on evening schools since 1902-3.

1871. Wirt, William. A plan of organization for co-operative and continuation courses. School journal, 81: 263–66, 280-81, October 1914.

"We present the report of Mr. Wirt in detail, for it not only gives a clear idea of the purposes of the Gary plan, but also shows how that plan may be used in any school system."-Editor.

LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS.

1872. Herbert, Clara W. Children's libraries in the United States. Journal of education (London) 46: 789-91, November 2, 1914 (supplement). Children's departments in public libraries. Cost of maintenance in 26 American cities, etc.

1873. Oliver, Thomas Edward. An American reader's impressions of some great European libraries. Public libraries, 19: 377-82, November 1914. Writer visited the Royal library of Berlin, and one or two libraries in southern Germany, including Heidelberg; then the several great libraries of Paris, especially the Bibliothèque nationale; and finally the British museum in London.

1874. Rathmann, C. G. The museum and the schools in Europe. [Pittsburgh, Pa., 1914] p. 107-19. 8°.

Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American association of museums, vol. viii, 1914.

1875. Root, Azariah S. The future development of college and university libraries. Library journal, 39: 811-15, November 1914.

An address given before the New York library association at Ithaca, September 10, 1914.

1876. Warren, Irene. Teaching the use of books and libraries.

35: 157-63, November 1914.

Education,

Says that libraries in elementary, high, and advanced schools "need to be systematically organized by expert librarians, who have also a knowledge of school aims and methods."

BUREAU OF EDUCATION: RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

1877. Agricultural teaching. Papers presented at the fourth annual meeting of the American association for the advancement of agricultural teaching, Washington, D. C., November 11, 1913. Washington, 1914. 87 p. (Bulletin, 1914, no. 27)