“This book is made up of a series of monographs explaining the methods employed in the elementary school of Stockton, California. The English teacher will find much here that is obvious, but the monograph on the teaching of English deserves attention.”—Ath.
“The monographs are very thorough, but also, for the most part very dull.”
| + − | Ath. 1907, 2: 93. Jl. 27. 130w. |
“It is a record of experience, of the deductions made by a body of practical teachers working together for a considerable period. As such it is valuable—of greater value perhaps to many teachers than a more profound statement of theoretical pedagogy.”
| + | Nation. 85: 234. S. 12, ’07. 180w. |
Wister, Owen. [How doth the simple spelling bee.] *50c. Macmillan.
7–8533.
An extravaganza on reform spelling, in which the reformer “at the age of seventy-five, with uncounted millions, and ten United States Senators, and a fourth young wife all in his pocket, proposed to hand his name to Immortality by simplifying the spelling of English all over the earth.” The sketch is worthy a Dickens up to date, and exposes humorously the unrelated scraps in the “rag-bag of lawlessness” which Mr. Wister chooses to denominate English spelling.