Reward and Library Books THE The Educational Supply Association will be glad to welcome to Esavian House all those who are interested in Books for Rewards and School Libraries. A very large and comprehensive stock of New and Standard Works at prices to suit all requirements is on view in the Book-room, which is quiet and comfortably furnished. Expert assistants are in attendance to render any help that may be necessary, but to those unable to call the E.S.A. will gladly send their separate Catalogues of the three classes of books mentioned below on receipt of a post card. (a) STANDARD BOOKS bound in Leather Bindings. (b) NEW BOOKS bound in Cloth Bindings. (c) BOOKS in various bindings offered at clearance prices. EDUCATIONAL SUPPLY ASSOC., LTD., 171-181 HIGH HOLBORN, LONDON, W.C.1. 2,000 MEDALS AND PRIZES!!! STUDENT'S ELEMENTARY BOOK-KEEPING THE STUDENT'S BUSINESS METHODS Theory and Practice of Commerce and By ARTHUR FIELDHOUSE, Accountant, 66 Trinity Street, Huddersfield, Yorks, who will forward copy Index and Specimen Pages on receipt of Post Card addressed to P.O. Box A 27, Huddersfield, Yorks. 380 Pages. 35th Edition. Price 3/6. 100 Exercises. 350 Questions. The ONLY TEXT-BOOK to which there is a FULL KEY. While this text-book more than covers all Elementary Examinations in this subject, its special design is to meet the requirements of the excellent Syllabuses issued by the Royal Society of Arts, the College of Preceptors, Oxford and Cambridge Locals, the London Chamber of Commerce, and the National Union of Teachers. The exercises and the principles introduced therein are so carefully graded in point of difficulty that the student is trained to work the most difficult set of transactions without being appalled at any stage of his study. No exercise is too long or too complicated to be completed between each lesson. The questions will be found very useful for testing the student's knowledge at each stage of his work. Examination Papers of the Royal Society of Arts, the College of Preceptors, the Oxford and Cambridge Locals, and the L.C.C. are included. 1,000,000 copies sold. SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, LTD., LONDON, E.C.4 Commercial Correspondence. By ARTHUR FIELDHOUSE, Accountant, 66 Trinity Street, Huddersfield, Yorks, who will forward Specimen Pages and Index on receipt of Post Card addressed to P.O. Box A 27, Huddersfield, Yorks. Twelfth Edition. 416 Pages. 3/6. 80 TEST and EXAMINATION PAPERS containing 1,300 QUESTIONS. This is the only practical up-to-date book on Commercial Correspondence and the Theory and Practice of Commerce, and is characterized by the same qualities that have made the author's other text-books so popular. The lessons are well graduated and the teacher is saved the drudgery of preparing Test Papers, one of which follows every chapter, in addition to numerous Examination Papers. PRACTICAL Work is provided in the Series of Business Transactions included in some of the Test Papers. It is the only Complete Guide, covering all the Public Examinations. Small-priced books may be had on the subject, but as they do not cover the Syllabuses they are dear at a gift. Efficiency should be the first consideration. It is an excellent Handbook for the Junior in the Office. 100,000 copies sold. SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, LTD., LONDON, E.C.4 be boarded out with kindly people on reasonable terms, and the consent of their parents would scarcely be obtained if the cost were higher than is entailed at present. Here, then, is clearly a case for financial aid from the State. Not much money would be required to remove the reproach that it is almost impossible for these children under present conditions to become good citizens. PROF. JESPERSEN continues his researches into " " " the history of modern developments of the English language with a thoroughness that puts most Englishmen to shame. His latest investigaMonosyllabism. tion* has been into the alleged tendency in modern English to monosyllabism -a tendency obtrusively manifest in newspaper headlines with their preference for "wed" over marry and crash" or smash over "accident." For those of us who were reared on the old doctrine of the philologists that Chinese monosyllabism represented the least advanced type of human speech, the prospect was peculiarly unwelcome; we seemed to be hurrying fast in a retrograde direction. Prof. Jespersen is reassuring. It appears that Chinese monosyllabism is not so primitive as we were told. Further, English is at the opposite pole from Chinese in respect of the variety of sounds which it admits: Dr. Jespersen calculates that English actually uses some 8,000 monosyllables and that 150,000 are theoretically possible, whilst the Chinese figures are merely 1,680 actual and 4,764 potential sounds. Strong as is the tendency to monosyllabism in modern English, Dr. Jespersen does not consider it overpowering it is counteracted by a great influx of foreign elements and by the intrinsic structure of the language itself, whilst the rich variety of monosyllabic sounds possible should save us from the fear that ambiguous homophones will ever be as prevalent in English as in Chinese. THE 'nineties" moved 'HE decadent literature of the Canon Ainger to the prayer, O give me more of the godly heart, And less of the Bodley Head!" If he were living now, he might perhaps "Life and Letters." address the editor of " Life and Letters" in a similar strain, and deprecate the attention given to Joyce and Proust. But at all events his fine literary taste would have been gratified by the two articles which open the April number.† The first, by Mr. Pearsall Smith, is devoted to Jeremy Taylor, who, admired in his own day, fell into neglect in the eighteenth century, was restored to favour by Coleridge and Lamb, but has fallen out of favour again since. In the second article Miss Edith Wharton discusses the quality of visibility in fiction. Balzac, Jane Austen, Thackeray, Tolstoy, are, in her opinion, supreme in the art of endowing their characters with life. She does not pretend to have fathomed their secret, but she thinks that much of it lies in "the patient intensity of attention" which these novelists concentrated upon each of their characters. THE HE proposal to omit from the Board's Regulations for Secondary Schools that part of Article 8(b) which requires that "except with the concurrence of the Board a pupil may only be entered for a First Examination as one of a form so entered" has, we notice, * Monosyllabism in English: Biennial Lecture on English Philology, British Academy, 1928. 2s. net. Oxford University Press. LIFE AND LETTERS,' monthly 1s, net. Edited by Desmond MacCarthy, 10 Great Queen Street, Kingsway, W.C.2. Secondary been warmly welcomed by the N.U.T. on behalf of its Heresies. SIR ALFRED HOPKINSON, the distinguished INCREMENTS OF SALARY.-In some respects the Northern Ireland scheme of salary increments for recognized secondary school teachers is very good. The school pays a basal salary which must not fall below a stated minimum, and increments are paid by the State. The result is that free movement of teachers from school to school is possible, for the question whether they have earned one or ten or twenty years increment need not be taken into consideration by the appointing school. But an undoubted defect in the scheme is that only a definite proportion of teachers is recognized for increment in each school; so that some teachers employed in excess of the recognized number for their school, though in every way qualified, may yet be without a grant. And should the numbers in a school decrease, some may actually be deprived of it, if retained on the staff. The department's scale is rigidallowing four teachers for a school of sixty pupils, and one for each additional twenty pupils. But, considering that a larger school may be more economically staffed, the A.S.T.I. is advocat. ing a more elastic scale, which would allow the smaller schools to provide more adequately for their variety of small classes by a slightly larger allowance, compensated by a small decrease in the allowance for the larger schools. ENTIRELY NEW EDITION, 1929 NUTTALL'S OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Revised and Greatly Enlarged-Modern Type-New Illustrations-Over 125,000 References-Pronunciation and Accent clearly defined. The numerous Appendices include articles on: PRONUNCIATION OF FOREIGN WORDS. By A. LLOYD JAMES. CUSTOMARY ABBREVIATIONS-PREFIXES AND SUF- PHRASES, PROVERBS, MAXIMS, &c. GROUP TERMS FORMS OF ADDRESS-ESPERANTO— CURRENCIES OF THE EMPIRE. SIGNS AND SYMBOLS, &c. A wonderful production. No schoolboy or schoolgirl should be without it.... -Sheffield Independent. Cloth gilt, coloured top, 8×54 in., 7/6 net FREDERICK WARNE & CO., LTD. UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Summer Course in Geography July 31 to August 20, 1929 A course of study for teachers and others will be held at Cambridge by the University Department of Geography (with the co-operation of the Board of Extra-Mural Studies). The fee will be £4 for each student. There will be courses of lectures on The Principles of Geography: A Survey. Method in Economic Geography. A Great Epoch of Geographical Discovery. There will also be lectures on other subjects, including: Anthropogeography Antarctic Exploration. The Geography of Disease. Excursions to places of historical and geographical interest will be arranged Further information as to other Summer Courses, accommodation, &c., can be obtained from G. F. HICKSON, M.A., Stuart House, Cambridge THE STANDARD WORK ON ATHLETICS ATHLETICS OF TO-DAY HISTORY-DEVELOPMENT-TRAINING With a Foreword by Lord BURGHLEY The Illustrations are an important feature and include nearly 300 Action Pictures from photographs, as well as numerous line diagrams. 384 pages of text, full index. There are Chapters on : RECORD-MAKING AND RECORD-BREAKING. VALUE OF EARLY HIGH AND LONG JUMPS. LONG DISTANCE WALKING. COACHING. Size 8x6 in. 12/6 net Messrs. Warne are renowned 1-4 Bedford Court, LONDON, W.C. 2 TO THE SCHOLASTIC PROFESSION Apply ALAWAY & PARTNERS, SCHOOL BOOKS NEW AND SECOND-HAND. GEORGE OVER (RUGBY) LTD., 22 Market Place, RUGBY. Wanted. "The Journal of Education" for 1920 and 1923, single parts or bound volumes. Wanted. N.U.T. Codes. 1893-1899, 1905, 1906, 1910, 1911. For Sale. Many "Out of print" numbers of "The School World" and other educational papers. Mr. JOHN DAVIS, 13 Paternoster Row, London, E.C.4 " Foreign and Dominion Notes UNITED STATES A recent number of The Historical Outlook (Philadephia), a Journal for Teachers of History," contains A Little the following significant articles: Educational Leaven. Policies of Prominent Peace and Religious Organizations, Teaching for Peace in College, International Attitudes in the Secondary School, World Relations as a Subject in the Curriculum, and Relations with Our World Neighbours. Whatever may lie behind America's hesitation to join the League of Nations, these articles make it quite clear that, on the one hand, there is a strong and growing public opinion in favour of joining, and, on the other, that the common bond between the numerous American Peace Organizations (already more than a hundred) is the conviction that the foundations of vinternational peace can best be laid in the schools. "Each Society has its own panacea, but all look to history-teaching in the schools as the chief line of attack." Six of the most typical of these Societies are the following: American School Citizenship League, Association for Peace Education, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, National Council for Prevention of War, The World Peace Foundation, and The League of Nations Non-Partisan Association. The last-named was founded in with the specific purpose of developing a public opinion so favourable to the League of Nations and the World Court as to lead to membership." That it is succeeding in its purpose may be gathered from a reference in the Year Book for 1927 of the Carnegie Endowment to the many signs that public opinion is becoming ready to support policies of international co-operation, international association, and international peace." 1923 " " "" " The Association (in common with other societies) supplies literature (free, or at nominal cost, to schools), lectures, films, and schemes of study, and publishes two monthly magazines : The League of Nations News, and Round the World with the League of Nations (with a circulation in 1926 of 8,000). It has also issued a manual for teachers: Essential Facts in Regard to the League.' Additional means employed by one or other of the organizations are conferences, posters ("Children from many Lands"), essay contests, the systematic observance of Goodwill Day (May 18), organized international visits of teachers and students, and international gifts (in 1927, 100,000 dolls to Japan, and in 1928, 1,000,000 school bags to Mexico.) Books and pamphlets already published include: "International Civics (with three chapters on the League), Community Civics " (with a section on World Friendship), : and Living (with a section on World Fellowship), "World Friendship among Children,' 'Books of Goodwill (a series), and several analytical studies of history text-books (American and European.) In one of these studies 'the investigators concluded that American children are taught an amazing collection of vicious and unashamed propaganda" (glorifying war, that is, and fostering national animosities.) That is a sorry revelation, but against it may be put all this peace emphasis, which, on however small a comparative scale, is precious .educational leaven. Literature SOUTH AMERICA Though published by Stanford University, California, Hispania, the official journal of the American Olla Podrida. Association of Teachers of Spanish, has naturally many contacts with South American education. We learn from a recent number, for instance, that with a view to promoting closer cultural relations with the United States, Chile has lately made English a compulsory subject in her secondary schools. Hitherto there has been freedom of choice between English, French, and German. The change is regarded as very significant. We also learn that "in the interest of understanding between the two Americas" twenty Argentine educators are now in the United States studying school systems and visiting universities. An exchange of professors and students is also contemplated. It is good to know that, although Buenos Aires has a population of over 2,250,000, no Argentine school accommodates more than 2,000 pupils"; also that teachers (85 per cent women) are responsible only to the government, command good salaries and, after twenty-five years of active teaching, retire on full pay. " From another source (an eye-witness) we learn that both Argentine and Chile were represented at the International Montessori Training Course recently held in London. And we have yet other evidence (educational periodicals) of how educationally alive many of the republics are. From the Argentine, for instance, we are in regular receipt (and here express our thanks) of two notable publications: (1) Humanidades, published by the University of La Plata-imposing octavo volumes of some 400 pages, surveying the world-field of the philosophy and science of educa tion, history, and literature; and (2) the fortnightly La Obra (fifty pages), the organ of the New Era (the Argentine section of the International New Education League)-which already has its counterpart in thirteen other countries, including Chile and ourselves. Chile itself has its fortnightly Boletin Educacional, the organ of a Teachers' Association and, as its sub-title" New Ways" suggests, quite abreast of the times. Uruguay has three periodicals devoted to the new ways: (1) Anales de Instruccion Primaria, an official bi-monthly dealing with national education (free to all school libraries); (2) Enciclopedia de Educacion, an official quarterly (also free to schools) dealing with education in other countries; and (3) most new " of all, the quarterly Boletin of the Pan-American Institute for Child Protection, a society devoted to the scientific treatment of the child problem in all its various aspects. Juvenile Courts are girdling the world nowadays. It is none the less significant to find in this Uruguayan publication an appreciative first-hand account (in Spanish, French, and English) of the Children's Court in Shoreditch. Peru has occasionally sent us the bi-monthly Cultura, concerned with contemporary philosophy rather than with education in the narrower sense. But we note that in its pages Pestalozzi once found an honoured place. From another source we learn that co-education in Peru has been "prohibited because of lack of success." Educacion (Ecuador) is a seventy page monthly, of progressive outlook and wide range. But in the many numbers before us the only English contribution is a portrait of Herbert Spencer. Varia The New South Wales Public School Teachers' Federation has held a ten-day drive to complete funds for the erection of a teachers' club building. ** The newest venture of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation is a provincial group insurance scheme in which a fourth of the teachers of the province are already protected. * MESSRS. W. & G. FOYLE, LTD., are issuing a very useful series of Guides to Literature. We have received No. 3a, which deals with nature study; it does not profess to be exhaustive, but includes books suitable for the teacher and the amateur. Each title is given a few lines of comment indicating the scope of the work. The fifty-fifth annual conference of the AssoCIATION OF HEAD MISTRESSES will be held at Leeds Girls' High School on Friday and Saturday, June 14 and 15, 1929, by the kind invitation of the Head Mistress, Miss L. A. Lowe, M.A., and the governors of the school. The Lord Mayor of Leeds will hold a reception for members of the conference in the City Art Gallery on the >>evening of Friday, June 14. Speaking at a recent demonstration the Archbishop of Cardiff said that he proposed to submit a question to candidates at the Election asking whether they would agree that the same amount of public money should be expended upon schools in which there was given a definite religious teaching as upon schools in which there was no such teaching. At present it cost the ratepayers of Cardiff 30s. per head less to educate Catholic children at the Catholic primary schools than at other schools; his suggestion was that the Catholics should be paid a fair rent for the use of their schools for secular education. HEINEMANN HISTORY The Legacy of the Ancient World. By W. G. DE BURGH, M.A., Professor of Philosophy, University of Reading. 462 pp. Second Edition. 15s. net. This book is eminently suitable as a text-book for students preparing for a History Scholarship, or for inclusion in the School Library, or as a Prize Book. The Times Literary Supplement says: "This book is an education in itself." From Gild to Factory. A First Short Course in Economic History. By ALFRED MILNES, M.A., D.Lit., late Staff Lecturer to the University Extension Board, and late Examiner in Economics and Economic History for the School Examinations in the University of London. 180 pp. Third Edition. Revised and enlarged. 3s. net. A.M.A. says: "It should now be unnecessary to emphasize the usefulness of this very sound little volume." School Guardian says: "A third edition of Dr. Milnes's Economic History is very welcome. He contrives to make a subject that might easily be dull, full of interest, and scholarly interest." Education says: "It is brimful of useful information, and there is not a dull page in it." GEOGRAPHY An Elementary Geography of the World. Regional and Economic, with Numerous Practical Exercises. By J. W. PAGE, F.R.G.S. In Six Sections: I, Africa. II, Australasia. III, America. 8d. net each. IV, Asia. V. Europe. VI, British Islands. 9d. net each. Also in Limp Cloth, 1s. net each part. ENGLISH COMPOSITION & PRÉCIS WRITING The English Way. A Text-book on the Art of Writing. By B. L. K. HENDERSON, M.A., D.Lit. Third Impression. 370 pp. 5s. net. This book on English Composition has been placed on the list of books recommended by the Institute of Bankers. This book is particularly suitable for students preparing for Matriculation or General Schools Certificate, and is used in many of the largest secondary schools and colleges in the Kingdom. The Journal of Education says: "The English Way is a manual of grammar and composition for the use of students preparing for preliminary examinations, and as such is one of many books of similar purpose and tried usefulness; but it excels all but the best of these in its scope, Such and in the number and the quality of the prescribed exercises. ... matters as paragraphing, paraphrasing, précis, essay-to mention but a few are well and fully done; and there are some extremely useful word-lists." Journal of the Institute of Bankers says: "For this book we have nothing but praise." The English Way for Junior Forms. A Text-book on the Art of Writing. By Dr. Henderson. 240 PP. 2s. 6d. net. A new work on English Grammar and Composition-scholarly and comprehensive, with an abundance of exercises, and many delightful touches of humour. Designed to make the teaching of this difficult subject a delight, not a drudgery. Education says: "This is an invaluable text-book on the art of writing intended for use in Junior forms. The standpoint from which the book has been written is thus described in the author's preface: This Junior Course has been written with the idea that a sound knowledge of Grammar is necessary, but, at the same time, a serious effort has been made to impart an understanding of composition and to develop a sense of style.' This twofold object has certainly been attained in this book." Chats about our Mother Tongue. By Dr. HENDERSON. 210 pp. 2s. net. The Times Literary Supplement says: "Among the many books on the subject, Dr. Henderson's stands out as an admirable example of concise and pleasant writing packed with lore, literary and historical, easily and agreeably conveyed." By A Practical Guide to Précis Writing and Indexing. G. O. E. LYDALL, L.L.A. Lecturer in English at the City of London College. 256 pp. 3s. net. This book is not a mere collection of exercises, but a real guide to a difficult subject. It is on the list of books recommended by the Institute of Bankers. A.M.A. says: "This is a more systematic and carefully graded book on the subject than most of those we have seen. The author is obviously a very experienced teacher. She writes in a clear and vigorous manner, not without touches of humour. The exercises are abundant and varied, and the book can be commended to the attention of teachers." Complete Catalogue post free on application. MACDONALD & EVANS, 8 John Street, Bedford Row, W.C.1 A FOUR YEARS' ENGLISH COURSE By C. GRANVILLE, late Senior English Master, Central Foundation School, and A. A. LE M. SIMPSON, Head of the English Department, Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-on-Tyne. A progressive course in the understanding and writing of English for pupils from 11-15 years of age, which departs from the ordinary practice of presenting a collection of rules and definitions and in its place adopts the heuristic method. Special features of the course are the copious exercises, in the construction of which the stimulation of literary taste has not been forgotten, and the inclusion of prose passages for special study. In two Parts, each forming two years' work. It is perhaps surprising that as yet nothing has been published for schools dealing with the above subject. Mr. Taylor, whose work is well known, here gives a selection of problems which can be worked out with success in any school and which will serve not only to lay the foundation for future chemical work while at school, but will also provide a training in methods of research and the solution of scientific problems. After reading the book in MS., a distinguished author of chemistry text-books wrote: "The book exhibits the scientific spirit and method throughout, and will, I am confident, be welcomed by all enlightened teachers of chemistry." Crown 8vo., illustrated, 3s.; Answers to above, 2s. 6d. (September). Specimen copies on application 99 GREAT RUSSELL STREET, W.C. 1 |