BOOK NOTES

The Expression Primer. by Lillin E Talbert, Primary Instructor, Berkeley, Cal. The purpose of the "Expression Primer" is to make the child's first year with the printed page a joy and a delight; to awaken not only a love for the charm of story, but to create, a desire to share with others the thought the story page reveals. The child of six lives in the world of imitation and imagination expressing himself in action. It is his desire to to do, to be. The nearer we build our textbooks to the child's development, the nearer do we come to a perfect fulfillment of the law of growth. So the "Expression Primer" has been prepared with the following objects in view: To provide interesting material within the scope of the child's experience. To bring into play he child's ability. To place in the hands of the child material permitting a wide variation for oral expression. To eliminate that self-consciousness so prevalent in the intermediate grades, the cause of which, if rightfully understood, is centered in the first and second years of school life.

Art Quartette, Modern Masters. By Hedwig Levi. This attractive and instuctive game, modelled upon the well-known plans of authors is a successor to the previous one published by Miss Levi, which followed the Old Masters. The one now under consideration contains 60 cards producing pictures by 15 modern artists, each artist being represented by four pictures The life and birth dates of the artists are given and the titles of the pictures in both English and French. They are reproduced with permission of the Berlin Photographic Co., and each card is a little work of art. Teachers would find them useful for busy work in various ways.

A Valiant Woman. By M. E., Author of "The Journal of a Recluse." Cloth. 303 pps. Published by Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York. Price $1,00, net. Postage 10 cents.

The sub-title of this live book is "A Contribution to the Educational Problem," and every up-to-date educator, whether or not in agreement with the views advanced, will find the work of greatest interest.

Among the subjects which claim attention are the kindergarten movement and wherein it is lacking, with special paragraphs on Rousseau, Pestalozzi, Froebel, and Mme. Montessori.

Cloth.

How England Grew Up. By Jessie Pope. 224 pps. Price 75 cents, net. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, New York and Chicago. The book consists of stories relating to the history of England, told in such a way as to interest, while instructing, younger children. There are fifty-four stories in all, with a large number of illustrations.

Indian Sketches, Pere Marquette and The Last of the Pottawatomie Chiefs. By Cornelia Steketee Hulst. Cloth. 113 pps. Price 60 cents Published by Longmans, Green & Co., Chicago, New York, and London.

This little volume of historical sketches relating to the Indians has been prepared for the purpose of supplying children with some of the most beautiful and

The book contains eight stories for little folks, beautifully illustrated. A feature of the book is the charming harmony between the text and the illustrations, by the author-artist, Milo Winter, who in the judgment of many has struck a new note in American illustrationa note reminiscent of Rackham and Dulac, yet with an individuality which is peculiarly his own.

Their City Christmas. A Story for Boys and Girls. By Abbie Farwell Brown. Illuminated cloth. 87 pps. Published by Houghten. Mifflin Company, New York and Chicago.

This story of the unique experiences of two children who come from the coast of Maine to spend the Christmas holidays with some young friends in the city is one of the best Miss Brown has written. Best Stories to Tell Children. By Sara Cone Bryant. Illuminated cloth. 181 pps. Price $2.00 net. Published by Houghton, Mifflin Company. The book contains 29 stories for little children, told in a most interesting way. There are 16 full page illus. trations in color. A most excellent Christmas gift.

Peace Prize Contest.

Under the auspices of the American School League open to pupils of all countries.

Two sets of prizes, to be known as the Seabury Prizes, are offered for the best essays on one of the following subjects;

1. The Opportunity and Duty of the Schools in the International Peace Movement. Open to Seniors in

the Normal Schools of the United States. 2. The Significance of the Two Hague Peace Conferences. Open to Seniors in the Secondary Schools of the United States. Three Prizes of Seventy-five, Fifty and Twenty-five Dollars will be given for the three best essays in both sets.

This Contest is open for the year 1913, to the pupils of the Secondary and Normal Schools in all countries.

Miss Willette Allen was hostess at an informal reception yesterday at the Kindergarten Normal School, inviting Atlanta kindergartens to meet Miss Marion Gladwin. The occasion was a happy one, introducing an expert kindergartner recently from Westfield, Mass., and a two years' tour around the world, during which she studied her specialty from every standpoint. Of delightful personality, she was most cordially greeted, and may make her

THE PERSONAL WELFARE OF THE KINDERGARTNER AND PRIMARY TEACHER.

This department is devoted to the personal welfare of kindergartners and primary teachers, the purpose being to give advice which may result in assisting them to better positions, in doing better work, and appreciating more fully the sacredness and importance of their calling.

Aside from the home and church there is no influence so strongly effective for the weal or woe of little children as the kindergarten and primary schools. It is really hard to fully comprehend the importance and responsibility of this position, and while this has been said many times before, it is worth repeating if thereby even a single kindergartner or primary teacher is led to more fully comprehend just what her work means to the children in her charge. There are two things that you need more than anything else. First, right attitude at all times, every day, toward your work and toward the children; and second, a deep insight into child nature, and the problems which kindergarten culture involves. No matter how great your aptitude for the work, you must study, think, examine, compare, and learn to comprehend results and their full meaning. To this end not only read but study your educational papers.

If you attend a convention, select from the program the addresses and exercises that are likely to help you most in your work with the children. Then be on time. Have note book and pencil. Write down every thought likely to prove helpful. Then preserve your note book and consult it from time to time. Sift everything that you hear, with a view to getting out of it that which can help you most. It is usually true that in educational meetings all of the theories advanced are not practical, at least in a general way. Your qualifications as a kindergartner or primary teacher will be greatly advanced when you can successfully sift out that which is good, and apply it to your work.

Do not be discouraged because your work seems to fall so far short of the ideal, but be ever on the alert to know wherein you have failed to reach the standard, and try to determine what change is necessary to bring this desired result. Keeping "everlastingly at it," gaining just a little today, and a little tomorrow, falling

that no work with children in the hands of the ordinary teacher is likely to be continuously progressive. Discouragements will come, and the ability to remain hopeful when hope seems hopeless, to do the work to the best of your ability when conditions and circumstances seem to indicate failure, is a quality that will help you over many hard places.

As soon as you feel yourself qualified for a more responsible position, or one where you are likely to accomplish more, we should advise you to take up the work of securing one. If this position must come from some locality outside your immediate environment we advise you to write to a reliable teachers' agency, a list of which will be found on another page, which is published for the special benefit of kindergarten and primary teachers. They will perhaps require a percentage of your salary for a short time as compensation for their work, but an active teachers' agency has many opportunities for securing positions which is not likely to be open to you as a kindergartner or primary teacher, and if the new position commands a higher salary the charge of the agency may really prove a gain and not an expense.

The demand is usually for experienced teachers, and every year of successful experience will improve your chances for a better position.

Having secured a place involving a higher quality of work the important thing is to especially qualify yourself for taking it up. Get all the information you can relative to the position. Endeavor to comprehend just what the work involves, what will be expected of you, and what you must accomplish in order to succeed, and then bring every aid possible to your assistance. Before the term opens, have your plans carefully thought out, which, however, should be subject to modification when experience indicates that this is advisable, and you are likely to succeed.

In fact, if we were to look upon the profession of a kindergartner or primary teacher in a purely competitive way, we should be forced to admit that there are so many half efficient people in the school work, those whose interests are not fully given to it, who seem to have no real definite purpose, that success is almost certain to any kindergartner or primary teacher who possesses good health, and ordinary ability, and who really wants to succeed bad enough to fulfill the

VOLUME XXV, NO. 4.

EDITORIAL NOTES

Every kindergartner will be interested in the article by Dr. W. N. Hailmann, elsewhere in this issue.

"Education, detection, control," should be the watchwords of the campaign against tuberculosis, according to the Chicago Tuberculosis Institute.

So important has domestic science instruction become in Germany that a special "Domestic Science Dictionary" has been issued for the use of teachers and others interested in education for the home.

In the Public Schools of Stavenger, Norway, an American dental graduate has fitted up a dental clinic, and twice during the school year children have their teeth examined. If defects are found, the child is given a card which is taken home to the parents, asking their consent to treatment, which is done free of charge.

"We need more doctors of public health than mere doctors of medicine," says Dr. F. B. Dresslar in a bulletin: "The duty of the State in Medical Inspection of Schools," just issued by the United States Bureau of Education. Dr. Dresslar pleads earnestly for the kind of medical inspection that seeks to promote health rather than that which hunts for ill-health. "Our system of paying doctors to do something for us when we are sick ought to be largely discarded for the Chinese system of paying them to keep us from getting sick."

"Yale in China," the collegiate school and hospital in Changsha, Hunan Province, China, intends to have its buildings representative of the best in western civilization. Particular

DECEMBER, 1912 rangements. Among suggestions that are receiving careful consideration is one from the United States Bureau of Education. Experts in the Bureau have urged that the boys' dormitory be equipped throughout with outdoor sleeping-rooms. It is declared that in this way the school will not only be able to get ten per cent more work out of the boys than it would otherwise, but "it will proclaim to the Chinese youth and to the world at large the value of fresh air."

"The laboratory method applied to the teaching of law," not unfairly describes the experiment of the Catholic University of Washington, D. C., where a real court room, with all the apurtenances: desks, railing, jury box, witness stand, etc., has been fitted up for holding moot courts. Attendance upon court is compulsory for all students in the law school. The presiding judge is a member of the faculty, but most of the officers of the court are students in the school.

The Philippine government, through its bureau of education, has taken an important step in the industrial development of the people of the Islands. By establishing the School of Household Industries at Manila, the government hopes to introduce into the homes several industries which will add materially to the income of thousands of families. Several hundred women from all parts of the Plippines receive instruction in special industri s at the school. After finishing the course they return to their native towns and teach other women to make at home things for which there is a market. Embroidery and lacemaking are receiving first attention, since the government sees most direct commercial ad