20–20533
As the sub-title, “Educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization,” indicates, the book does not go back to the early civilizations of primitive and oriental people but, beginning with ancient Greece, traces the development of education throughout the western world for the purpose of showing that human civilization represents a more or less orderly evolution and that the education of man stands as one of the highest expressions of a belief in the improvability of the race. The contents are in four parts: The ancient world; The mediæval world; The transition from mediæval to modern attitudes; Modern times. The book is indexed and illustrated with full page pictures, figures and maps. Questions and references follow the chapters.
CUBBERLEY, ELLWOOD PATTERSON.[[2]] Readings in the history of education. (Riverside textbooks in education) il *$3.75 Houghton 370.9
20–22845
“A collection of sources and readings to illustrate the development of educational practice, theory, and organization.” (Sub-title) The original purpose of the collection was to furnish supplemental reading to a lecture course by the author and is now offered as a supplement to his textbook, “The history of education” and as a reference volume. It is liberally illustrated with reprints from old cuts and the subject-matter ranges from the old Greek and Roman education, the rise of Christianity with its contributions through to the middle ages, the revival of learning and the rise of the universities. With the new scientific method and after the transition phases of the eighteenth century come the beginnings of national education which gradually bring the selections down to contemporary educational history.
CULLUM, RIDGWELL. Heart of Unaga. *$2 (1½c) Putnam
20–18301
Steve Allenwood, as a police officer of the north land, is sent on a mission which will take two years to fulfil, leaving behind him his pleasure loving wife and baby daughter. When he returns, bringing with him a boy whom he has salvaged from the bitter rigors of the north, he finds his wife has gone away with another man, taking their daughter with her. His one desire is for revenge, but when he has almost accomplished it, he realizes its futility, and determines to devote all his remaining life to the little lad of the north. He knows there is a fortune in the drug—adresol—with which the hibernating Indians lull themselves to their long winter sleep, and thereafter the passion of his life is to discover where these Indians obtain it. After years of search, the heart of Unaga gives up its secret to him. In the meantime, his adopted son and his real daughter have grown up, and in their love for one another and for him, he realizes at last some of the contentment that has been denied him in all the intervening years, and finally he has his revenge too, on the man who has wronged him years before.
“The story has an unusual plot, which is masterfully developed, and the descriptions of the northwest primitive life and the hibernating Indians are extremely vivid. All the characters are intensely real and well portrayed. The book is at all times interesting, and in spots even inspired.”