Birney, Mrs. Theodore. Childhood. (a) Stokes. 1905. 254 p. $1.00. Friendly, practical discourses by the founder of the Inter. Mothers’ Congress.
Burbank, Luther. The Training of the Human Plant. Century. 1907. 100 p. $.60. The needs, rights and potentialities of children; application of principles of biology to childhood and education.
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield. Mothers and Children. Holt. 1914. 285 p. $1.00. The child’s point of view; training in obedience.
†Forbush, Wm. B. The Coming Generation. (a) Appleton. 1912. 402 p. $1.50. Forces working for the betterment of American young people; betterment in the home, through birth and better health, through education, through religious and social nurture and service.
Gruenberg, Sidonie M. Your Child To-day and To-morrow. Lippincott. 1913. 234 p. Illus. $1.25. Discusses problems of punishment, children’s lies, training in reasoning, training through play; sex education, obedience, will.
McKeever, Wm. A. Farm Boys and Girls. Macmillan. 1912. 325 p. Illus. Bibl. $1.50. Especially for the mother in the rural home; home conveniences, children’s literature, rural recreations, and other practical problems.
†McKeever, Wm. A. Training the Boy. Macmillan. 1915. 368 p. Illus. Bibl. $1.50. Training from infancy through adolescence to develop the many-sided nature of the boy into a well-poised man; includes discussion of early childhood training, play, fighting, bad habits, vocational training, preparation for home and family life.
†McKeever, Wm. A. Training the Girl. Macmillan. 1914. 342 p. Illus. Bibl. $1.50. A companion volume to the foregoing.
2. Comenius, Pestalozzi, Froebel and Montessori.
Comenius. The School of Infancy. Heath. 99 p. Bibl. $1.00. The early educator’s discussions, though antiquated in some details, are full of inspiration for the present day. Education during the first six years, chiefly through play and habits.