DAILY BIBLE READINGS FOR SCHOOL AND HOME—(XII)

18. HEROIC AGE CONCLUDED. GIDEON AND ЈЕРНТНАН.

M. Judges vi, 1-24; Psalms lxxvii, 11-14. "Vocation Day" for Gideon.

T. Judges vi, 25-40; Psalms lxviii, 1-6. Gideon cleans up his Town.

W. Judges vii, 1-23; Psalms cxxiv. "The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon."

T. Judges viii, 22-27; ix, 7-21; Psalms lxviii, 7-10. Gideon refuses to be a King.

F. Judges ix, 41-57; Psalms lxviii, 11-18. slain by a Woman.

S. Judges x, 6-16; xi, 4-6, 29-40; Proverbs

Abimelech

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25;

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Psalms lxxvi, 11. The Story of Jephthah's Daugh

ter.

S. Judges xii, 1-7; Psalms lxxv. The Story of the Shibboleth.

19. SONGS OF DELIVERANCE*

M. Psalms xlix, 1-13, 16-20. "Be not thou afraid when one is made rich."

T. Psalms lxxxv; cxxi. "Mercy and truth are met together."

W. Psalms cviii; cxiii, 1-8. "My heart is fixed, O God." T. Psalms cxv; cxvii. "Not unto us but unto Thy name give glory."

F. Psalms lxxxiii; lxviii, 19, 20. "O God, keep not Thou silence."

S. Psalms cxxix; cxxxviii, 1-5. "O, clap your hands, all ye people."

S. Psalms cxxv; cxl. "They that trust in the Lord are as Mount Zion."

In the last fortnight of the year we introduce as an interlude reviews of the past and forecasts of the future from Hebrew poet-prophets of a later age.

Rechabites the Oldest

I Kings xx, 1-21. Conquered through Drink. Psalms x; cxlvi, 1-9. “Break Thou the arm of the. wicked."

SELF-SURVEYS BY COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. By Dr. William H. Allen. Yonkers-on-Hudson, New York, Chicago and Atlanta: World Book Company. Illustrated. Cloth. 393 pp. Price, $3. No one could prepare this book with its faithfulness and fearlessness but Dr. W. H. Allen, whose genius for probing things to the bottom is well known to many, all too well known by some. He is a tireless worker, a born scientist in research, and utterly reckless in the use of money when he is in search of facts and reliable figures. This book must have cost limitless time and money.

Rendering and obtaining higher educational service is one of the country's chief industries and represents a capital investment of ten billion dollars.

The scientific methods of analysis which 600 colleges are training 400,000 young men and women to apply to everything else under the sun must soon be applied to colleges themselves. Presidents are asking questions; faculties are asking questions; trustees, taxpayers, secondary schools, alumni, and students are asking questions. This book makes available to any educational institution the experience of investigators and managers as gleaned from extensive personal contact, from studying hundreds of college reports, and from suggestive letters and illustrations contributed by interested managers and teachers who read chapters of this book or responded to a referendum of its chapter headings to 200 college officers.

Over 100 sections list and discuss steps to be taken in answering questions about college and university affairs of vital importance. As a handbook practical use, it gives methods, suggestions, and questions that have proved their value.

for:

The main topics treated are: The Survey Movement in Higher Education, Procedure for a Co-operative College Survey, Relations of Trustees to President and Faculty, Executive and Business Efficiency, Faculty Government, Extra-Curricular Activities of Students, Course of Study,

Instructional Efficiency, Relation with College Communities, Miscellaneous Problems.

Not to know this book, not to master its suggestions is to place a university administrator, under suspicion of being a scholastic slacker or of being intensely prejudiced. The opportunity which it offers for improvement in university management is beyond estimate.

TEACHING IN RURAL SCHOOLS. By Thomas Jackson Woofter, University of Georgia. Boston, New York, Chicago: Houghton Mifflin Company. Cloth. 321 pp. Price, $1.40.

Dr. Woofter has greatly developed the educational department of the State University of Georgia along lines of professional efficiency and this book is the best, for it is of his thought on one of the most intense educational studies of the day. With all the books on this subject there always seems to be room for one more whenever a man or woman has a new thought or a new line of approach to an old thought. Dr. Woofter's special claim to attention in this day of a multitude of books on the same subject seems to be that he knows all the facts. theories, and revelations of all other books and has given them a new grouping and a personal interpretation growing out of his teaching of teachers. It is distinctly an educational book, but in everything the focus is on the teacher of a rural school.

In the struggle for national supremacy education is the vital factor. The aims of enthusiasts will be rendered abortive if the importance of the rising generation be in any way lost sight of or thought of little account: victory in the industrial conflict will accrue to that nation whose youth has been most efficiently trained.

An attempt is here made to deal with one phase of the great question of education, namely, the early training of those who are destined to become the statesmen and professional men of the future, the leaders of industry and "the masters of men.

Those who advocate a very considerable extension of science teaching in our public schools do not, however, do so solely, or even chiefly, for its value to national industry.

It is only by a possession of a knowledge of the great facts of nature that a man can think correctly or arrive at a true philosophy: it is only by a study of the natural sciences that he can cultivate that great quality which is implied in the term "veracity of thought and action": or by familiarity with the experimental methods of the natural sciences that he can assure himself both that there is truth to be discovered and how to discover it.

SUPPLEMENTARY

EDUCATIONAL MONOGRAPHS: ELEMENTARY STUDIES IN ARITHMETIC. By George S. Counts, Ph.D., University of Delaware. TYPES OF READING ABILITY AS EXHIBITED THROUGH TESTS AND LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS. By Clarence Truman Gray, Ph.D., University of Texas.

Published by the University of Chicago Press.

Dr. George S. Counts' Monograph of 125 pages is based on material collected from Cleveland, Grand Rapids, and a number of individual schools through the use of the Cleveland Survey Arithmetic Tests, and the author has worked out the types of errors which children make in these tests and has shown the relation between age and success in arithmetic.

Dr. Gray has carried on a series of studies of reading for one year with the aid of a subsidy supplied by the General Education Board. He photographed the eyes of a number of children who had been selected through carefully conducted tests in the elementary school and in the High School of the University of Chicago. By means of the tests he was able to distinguish different types of ability to read; by means of the laboratory experiments he arrived at an explanation of a number of these types. These monographs are interesting especially to enthusiasts in these subject tests. Every experimenter makes a contribution to the wisdom of experts and somewhat to the confusion of the everyday teacher.

ABIGAIL ADAMS AND HER TIMES. By Laura E. Richards, author of "Elizabeth Fry," etc. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Illustrated. Cloth. Price, $1.35,

net.

A phase of the new in literature which is exceedingly important is the writing in a highly attractive way by Mrs. Laura E. Richards, daughter of Julia Ward Howe, and an author of such rare charm that there is no occasion to mention her inheritance, of the story of Elizabeth. Fry and Florence Nightingale, and now of Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, who succeeded George Washington as President of the United States. Mrs. Adams was one of the most interesting and active women of her day, and there have been so many tantalizing references to her in various historical and biographical books on the administration of her husband that this fuller statement of her talent and experiences will be exceedingly welcome. This is the story of her childhood and later years told from authentic records of that period, including many diaries and letters written by her which throw new light on many historical incidents of her day. The three fascinating stories of three remarkable women of those days should be read by every school girl from the seventh grade and above that grade.

Now let Mrs. Richards give the girls an equally compelling book on the famous "Dolly Madison."

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DRAWING, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO LABORATORY TEACHING. By Fred Carleton Ayer. Baltimore: Warwick and York. Cloth. 172 pp. Price, $1.25.

This is much more significant to education than appears from the title. By confining the study to the need of having students learn to draw as they need to draw as students of science by laboratory methods the author has been able to magnify the study of mental attitudes and

capacities so definitely and reliably as to make a real contribution to psychology as well as to the art of learning to draw.

Teachers of English as well as teachers of drawing will do well to study this book with care. The science laboratory needs students skilled in the art of scientific expression with language as well as with drawings.

It is interesting to see how closely the author's study of psychology of the laboratory has kept language skill and pencil art linked. The title of the book should have been "The Psychology of Expression in Laboratory Work," for this is what it really is. It is a fascinating book for a student of psychology, of English, of drawing, of science, of teaching.

THE POSY RING. Verses and Poems for the Youngest Children. Chosen and arranged by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith. Boston, New York, Chicago: Houghton Mifflin Company. Cloth. 273 pp. Price, 65 cents.

These sisters, who love children and whom all children love, did their little friends a genuine service when they collected these lovely verses and poems and classified them as "A Year's Windfalls," "The Child's World," "Hiawatha's Children," "The Flower Folk," "Hiawatha's Brothers," "Other Little Children," "Play-Time," "StoryTime," "Bed-Time," "The Sunday's Child" and "Bells of Christmas."

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES-Political, Industrial, Social. By Charles Manfred Thompson, University of Illinois. Chicago, New York, Boston: Benjamin H. Sanborn & Co. 125 illustrations, twenty maps, 8 charts. Cloth. 560 pp. Price, $1.60.

The author has prepared a unique history of the United States adapted especially to secondary schools and colleges, It is quite original in conception and masterful in treatment. It is a reliable historical work, interesting for student and teacher.

ENGLISH ESSAYS. Edited by David T. Pottinger, A. M. Pocket American and English Classics. New York: The Macmillan Company. Price, 25 cents.

An excellent collection of the essays from Bacon to Lucas, including Bacon, Cowley, Steele, Addison, Goldsmith, Lamb, De Quincey, Hazlitt, Emerson, Smith, Pater, Stevenson and Lucas. There is an introduction, also notes and index of the same by the editor. Frontispiece of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

THE BOYS' BOOK OF SCOUTS. By Percy Keese Fitzhugh. New York: T. Y. Crowell & Co. Price, $1.25.

Every boy, whether he has "Scout" to his name or not, will be glad to make the acquaintance of the hardy pioneers whose adventures are recorded in the "Book of Scouts." Merely to call the roll will give an inkling of the high deeds of adventure that here await us. George Rogers Clarke, the Kentuckian, who wrested two forts in the West from the British during the Revolution; Davy Crockett, the Tennesseean, who after a picturesque career lost his life in the famous fight of the Alamo; Sam Houston, Kit Carson, Daniel Boone, Francis Marion, Lewis and Clarke, "Buffalo Bill" these are only a partial list of the scouts whose deeds are narrated. There are twenty chapters in all, and not one would be willingly skipped by a wide-awake lad. This is history that no boy will need urging to read.

BUGLE CALLS OF LIBERTY. Our National Reader of Patriotism. By Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth and Paul Mayo Paine, M. A., librarian, Syracuse Public Library. Syracuse, New York: Iroquois Publishing Company, Inc.

There must be more of the inspiration of patriotism in our schools. The School Readers have always had a patriotic flavor, but there should be something more than has ever been provided in the past. "Bugle Calls of Liberty" is one of the most appealing Patriotic Readers that has come to our notice. It is in the highest and fullest sense precisely what its name suggests.