FUNDAMENTALS OF FRENCH. By Frances R. Angus, University of Chicago. New York: Henry Holt & Co. Cloth. 296 pp. Price, $1.15. Miss Angus announces her book as a combination of the direct and grammatical methods. It is one of the best books of its kind that we have seen. It is a sensible adaptation of the direct method to the needs of American classes. The lessons are admirably graduated, starting with the objects in the classroom as the basis for oral work and gradually working up to short stories, such as "Cendrillon," "Le Chat Botté" and "La Dernière Classe." The lessons are preceded by an introduction in English on pronunciation (one of the best of its kind) and there is appended a résumé of grammar covering about forty pages which is a marvel of clearness and conciseness. An index to the résumé facilitates its use for reference. Each lesson in addition to material for conversational drill covers one or more grammatical points. Exercises for written composition are also included. The usual vocabularies are provided. The book is noteworthy for its extreme originality and undeniable interest. All the material is practical and colloquial and the vocabulary is that of everyday speech. Pupils are encouraged from the very start to talk and think in French. A number of selections for home reading are included. There is no doubt that the book will appeal to numbers of teachers who see the good points of both teaching methods and who will appreciate a practical, pedagogically competent textbook adapted to their needs. THE JUNIOR PLATTSBURG MANUAL. By Captain E. B. Garey, U. S. A. and Captain O. O. Ellis, U. S. A. With a Foreword by Major-General John F. O'Ryan. Cloth. 300 pp. 250 illustrations. Price, $1.50. THE BOYS' CAMP MANUAL. A Handbook of Military and All-Round Training. By Charles K. Taylor, M. A., Director of Camp Penn, Under-Military-Age Camp near Plattsburg. Cloth. 236 pp. Forty illustrations. Price, $1.25. New York: The Century Company. "The Junior Plattsburg Manual" has been written especially for boys. Its object is not primarily to make young soldiers; it is to help make, through the course of military training specifically outlined, straight bodies, straight minds and straight morals; to help develop American boys into physically sound, aggressive, characterful men already in possession of the rudiments of the training necessary for the defence of their country. "The Boys' Camp Manual" is a handbook covering the all-round training of boys. It outlines a course that gets them ready for all emergencies, and gets them ready by means which are at once interesting, healthful, and unusually stimulating. It should be indispensable to boys attending any camp, to conductors of camps, and to boys who love the great out-ofdoors and who wish to develop themselves whether attending a camp or not. SPANISH GRAMMAR. By Charles Philip Wagner (University of Michigan). Ann Arbor, Mich. : George Wahr. Cloth. 219 pp. Price, $1.25. Professor Wagner's Spanish Grammar, now in its seventh edition, labors under the disadvantage of not being published by one of the recognized great textbook houses, with its branch offices, and field agents, and advertising facilities, and trade goodwill, and all its complicated organization for securing adoptions. It is surprising that such an eminently practical book should have to compete under such conditions, and that the author has not been induced by some enterprising publisher to entrust the publication of the work to his firm. Properly pushed, and dressed up in the pictorial finery that seems to be de rigueur at present, it should prove to be a bonanza to its fortunate sponsor. In spite of this drawback, the book has been extremely successful. It is now in use in a number of important institutions. No saner, sounder textbook in Spanish is on the market. No other Spanish grammar surpasses it in clearness and simplicity of statement. For excellence of pedagogical mechanics, it has not been approached. It is a pleasant surprise to the teacher to find that the author has done for him just the things he has had to do for himself, and in exactly the same way; that Mr. Wagner has faced and simplified difficulties, and leveled the road of obstructions, in just the way that experience has indicated as the simplest and smooth est to others. One point will illustrate: It is the only grammar of our acquaintance at the moment that lays adequate stress on the absolute identity of the forms of the second and third conjugations except in a few instances, and prints them that way. Yet every teacher makes that observation to his pupils, or finds them making it themselves and wondering why it should be necessary to "fuss" so much with the third conjugation. A related feature is the emphasis on endings in discussing regular verbs, rather than on specific verbs used as paradigms. There are forty-four lessons in the text, of which every fourth is a review lesson. There is no written composition in the original lessons, the exercises consisting of drill on the grammatical points treated, a connected passage in Spanish for reading and translation, and questions in Spanish for oral composition based on the model text or illustrating the matter of the lesson; but in the review lesson there are provided from thirty to fifty sentences in English for written composition, preceded by a schematic synopsis of points taken up in the three lessons under review, with references to the paragraphs concerned. This feature alone marks the book as the work of a master of modern language teaching. There are many others. Besides the usual vocabularies and index the appendix contains a chapter on the verb, with paradigms and an alphabetical list of irregular verbs, and supplementary exercises for written composition based on a number of the more important lessons. 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Besides the flying instruction there is a school for naval ensigns, which has been increased in attendance from sixty to one hundred and fifty; a school for training deck officers, with thirty listed, and a school which converts stationary and locomotive engineers into steamship engineers. Of the navigation schools scattered throughout the country thirty have been organized and are being supervised by Technology at the request of the Federal Government. Eight of these schools are located in different parts of New England. Wentworth Institute, A. L. Williston, principal, opened with the largest enrollment since its establishment. The institute will continue to give instruction to the men of the 101st regiment of engineers. DEDHAM. Miss Sarah A. Lyons of Dedham, for twelve years a teacher in the Boston Normal School, has been appointed assistant director of the department of practice and training in Boston. 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William Allan Neilson, professor of English at Harvard, succeeds Dr. Marion Leroy Burton as president of Smith College. Professor Neilson was born at Doune, Scotland, March 28, 1869. He received the degree of A. M. from the University of Edinburgh in 1891. As a graduate student at Harvard he attained his master's degree in 1896 and his doctorate in 1898. Previously, in 1893-1895 he had begun his career as a teacher in Scotland and Canada, and in 1898 he went as an associate in English to Bryn Mawr, where he remained for two years. He went to Cambridge in 1900 as instructor, stayed four years, went to Columbia for two years and returned to Harvard in 1906 as professor of English. The year 1914-1915 he spent at the University of Paris as Harvard exchange professor. His courses in the Harvard department of English illustrate the field of his scholarship. 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New York University and Haryard, which announced it will open its medical course to Radcliffe women this fall, are two of the very few colleges offering a two-years' medical preparatory course to the fair sex. of Music in Public Schools THOMAS TAPPER, Principal SPECIAL EXAMINATIONS October 6th and 10th ENROLLMENT October 1st to 11th Prospectus of Supervisor's Course mailed on application EMERSON College of Oratory HENRY LAURENCE SOUTHWICK, President The largest school of Oratory, Literature and Pedagogy in America. It aims English Association. In 1912 he had to develop in the student a knowledge of his own powers in expression whether an active part in the national con- as a creative thinker or an interpreter. A beautiful new building. Summer ference on uniform requirements in sessions. Catalogue and full information on application to English. HARRY SEYMOUR ROSS, Dean BOSTON, MASS.. In both instances, war with its crying need for more doctors, and the threatened dearth of doctors at home on account of the great number being sent abroad, is responsible for the letting down of the bars. PENNSYLANIA. Adams County has just opened its first vocational at high school Arendtsville, under the direction of George M. Rice, who resigned the assistant superintendency of the Adams County schools to accept this position. Arendtsville, Franklin Township and Butler Township are supporting this new institution, which will among other departments include chemical, physical and domestic science, agriculture, and manual training. GETTYSBURG. Professor George M. Rice, for the past two years assistant superintendent of Adams County, has resigned to accept the principalship of the new vocational school at Arendtsville. He is succeeded in office by Professor W. Raymond Shank of New Chester. has STATE COLLEGE. A record breaking freshman class numbering 750 entered the Pennsylvania State College last week. This is the largest class that Pennsylvania State ever enrolled. It surpasses last year's class by 125. The registration in the other classes is uncertain, but it is believed that at least eighty per cent. of former students will return, that despite the heavy withdrawals from the student body for war service, there will be about 2,000 young men and women studying at State College this year. SO HARRISBURG. War conditions seem to have had no effect on enrollment in the public schools of Pennsylvania. The Department of Public Instruction does not get detailed reports until a term ends. Enrollment for last year, the year ending June 30, 1917, was 1,504,794. The average at tendance for the year was almost 1,300,000. So far as unofficial reports have been received enrollment for this year is in excess of that for last year. State officials say they have no reason to believe there has been any falling off. ROCHESTER. The H. C. Fry Glass Company has completed a brick building, costing $35,000, in North Rochester, Beaver County, for the Rochester Township School District, for a continuation school. The structure is modern in every respect. In addition to the continuation work it will be used for Americanization classes. SOUTHERN STATES. TEXAS. SAN ANTONIO. This city has erected more school buildings in value, including remaking buildings, since Superintendent Charles S. Meek came here two years ago than in any twenty years previously. Now the city has thoroughly modern school buildings which it had never had. CENTRAL STATES. INDIANA. INDIANAPOLIS. The present world situation will occupy a prominent place on this year's program for the Indiana State Teachers' Associa tion. Francis Nielson, member of the VALPARAISO. Henry B. Brown, No Phosphate time last year was 272, a loss of ninety-two students. All the college classes show a decrease except the senior class, which has seventy-one students as compared with fifty-five a year ago. There are 107 college men enrolled. KENTUCKY. LEXINGTON. Dr. Frank L. McVey, president of the State University of North Dakota, has recently been elected president of the University of Kentucky. He is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and of Yale. MICHIGAN. IRONWOOD. At a special meeting of the board of education held September 12, a bonus of twenty per cent. for the school year 1917-18 was granted to the entire teaching corps. This action includes the superintendent, E. T. Duffield, the high school principal, J. C. Watson, and the clerical forces. This means an additional levy for teachers' salaries of $16,710 for the current year. Ironwood has the unique distinction of building school buildings on a cash basis. Two years ago a $150,000 ward school was completed, and within twelve months after occupancy was entirely paid for. This year the school board authorized the erection of another ward school to cost exclusive of equipment $115,000. By January 1, 1919, this building also will be entirely paid for. Ironwood is building its buildings for cash without levying bonds against the city. The teaching corps of the city numbering 107 teachers includes nine supervisors, namely: Primary grades, grammar |