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NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR The coming of the Christmas season suggests the idea of commenting on some notable books of the year, inasmuch as many of them can well be made profitable and acceptable Christmas gifts. The books chosen are by no means the only notable books of the year but a selection out of the many that have come to our desk since Kindergarten Magazine January, 1909. E LYELL EARLE, Ph. D......... .......Managing Editor JENNY B. MERRILL, Ph. D., Supervisor Kindergartens, Manhattan, The Bronx and Richmond MARI RUEF HOFER... ........Teachers' College and New York Froebel Normal. BERTHA JOHNSTON,. MISS MARY MILLS, Principal Connecticut Froebel Norma 1 All communications pertaining to subscriptions and advertising or other business relating to the Magazine should be addressed to the Michigan office, J. H. Shults, Business Manager, Manistee, Michigan. All other communications to B. 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NOTABLE BOOKS IN EDUCATION "Motives, Ideals and Values in Education," by William E. Chancellor, Superintendent of Schools, of South Norwalk, Conn., is from the press of Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Boston. The book is an index of present tendencies toward emphasizing the importance of the philosophy of education, rather than defining the method and daily material, or device for the class room. The author shows a spiritual insight into life itself in the large, and into its specific needs in our own time and country. In his preface he presents five significant features as a suggestion and justification of the appearance and scope of the book. 4. The emphasis of the philosophic spirit underlying and establishing the modern course of study and mode of administration. 5. The development of a system based upon the proposition of the necessity of the complete education of each and of all." We need more spiritual insight, and Dr. Chancellor's book well deserves the careful reading of every student of education. "School Reports and School Efficiency," by Professor Snedden, of Teachers' College, and Dr. Allen, of the Municipal Research Society of New York," published by The Macmillan Company, illustrates another significant feature of present day educational study. Its purpose is to place on a scientific basis school reports in American cities, so that the layman, as well as the trained pedagogue, may derive from their perusal intelligent information concerning the work being done in the schools of the country. While it seems to be directed primarily at the Superintendents of Schools, city and state, it has a definite application to every teacher, whose duty it is to cooperate intelligently with city and state superintendent in making school reports scientific. Many of the so-called school reports come out several years after the time they are supposed to report on. If they are to be of any value for immediate legislation they should appear within a month, at the latest, after the close of the current year. They should deal psychologically with the current problems, and be based on principles of economic accuracy. The book should serve to arouse a healthy interest in making reports of real profit to the student of education and to the citizen interested in the upbuilding of the educational system of his locality and of the country at large. "How to Study," by Professor F. M. McMurry, of Teachers' College, Houghton, Mifflin Co., publishers, holds a middle place between the two books just referred to. It takes up a practically new aspect of educational literature, and is fruitful in suggestions for future work in this line. The book itself illustrates its title, inasmuch as throughout its pages you are studying personally with Dr. McMurry and learning the process in the doing. The book has both a philosophical seriousness and a practical accuracy that is unusual in a new field. It stands for the importance of clear, well defined, organized knowledge, and decries the large amount of wear and tear in socalled school study, and laments the absence of definite working knowledge as the result of the many years of school attendance. Dr. McMurry furthermore avoids a good deal of the educational cant, which has grown to unpleasant proportions in many of the recent books on education. To those of us who know him intimately in the class room, the book is a revelation of his inner self and is a real personal contribution to a most neglected aspect of education today. No teacher can afford to be without this excellent work. Professor Stuart H. Rowe has given us another book showing the tendency toward intensive study in the science of teaching, applied particularly to individual gain, through the study and recitation period. "Habit Formation and the Science of Teaching," Longmans, Green & Co., publishers, will be welcomed by the teacher as an amplification of the psychology of habit as distinct from the getting of the idea in the process of acquiring the habit. The book is noteworthy particularly for its careful amplification of school experiences, as illustrating idea getting and habit formations as a basis for intellectual character that should result from the proper acquisition of truths through study. The summaries at the end of each chapter are characteristic of the man and illustrative of what the author means by the distinction between idea getting and habit forming. The summary at the end of the book gives the author's main point of view and is sufficiently explicit for the student of education to suggest the value of the book to every teacher. PAGES 283 AND 284 "6. SUMMARY-It has been found practicable to include applications with each point and to treat the special difficulties in special chapters. Four topics remain: (a) It is seldom possible to establish a habit in a single lesson. One or more lesson periods for any phase or complex of phases. (b) A criterion for experience is needed. The experiences of successful teachers are always helpful, but their procedure is so often conflicting that some systematic and theoretically sound scheme of teaching must be consulted, if judgment is to be made between them. It is not denied, however, that there may be more than one correct method, nor is it asserted that every good teacher intentionally follows any such scheme. It is asserted that the requirements of habit-forming must be fufilled consciously or unconsciously, or else the results are only apparent. (c) Over-habituation, more properly malhabituation or under-accommodation, is the loss of ability to make new adjustments. Lack of variety in one's occupations or his avocations tends to bring about this misfortune, which is rarely escaped in old age. The exceptions, however, seem to indicate the possibility of escape. On a smaller scale many in the most favored surroundings condemn themselves to ignorance or inaction of one sort or another, until a daily routine secures a firm hold upon them. (d) There is need of the scientific study of individual school habits with due reference to the important considerations in the methodology of habit. No such study has been made. Here is a field both for experimental pedagogy and for experimental psychology. But neither can profitably investigate in these directions and ignore the main divisions of the habit-forming process." "Youth, Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene," by G. Stanley Hall, comes from the D. Appleton & Company press, New York. York. It is a briefer presentation of the author's larger work, with many new and |