+ N Y Times p24 Ja 16 ’21 290w
“They are scarcely less ingenious than Sherlock Holmes, but they are much more probable. There is, indeed, not one of the mysterious incidents which might not quite naturally have occurred, and the explanation is as natural as it is surprising when it is furnished.”
+ Outlook 126:600 D 1 ’20 80w
CRADDOCK, ERNEST A. Class-room republic. *$1 Macmillan 371.3
“Modern civics teaching is demanding much participation on the part of the pupil. One way to get this desirable activity is through the introduction of student self-government into a class or a school. Some English experiments with this sort of thing have been published quite recently. Besides narrating his experience in introducing classroom republics into his school the author of this little book discusses in some detail the advantages of the system and some objections to it. Some attention is also given in the last two chapters to the subject, ‘The school republic.’”—School R
Ath p589 Ap 30 ’20 120w
“The book is well written and presents with fairness both the merits and defects of the scheme proposed.”
+ El School J 21:75 S ’20 200w + School R 28:550 S ’20 120w
“The book is, besides being a genuine contribution to the science of pedagogics, extremely amusing even to the non-professional reader. It is indeed delightful to read such a book as Mr Craddock’s, well written, conceived with gusto and treating of a subject so interesting.”