| * | + | N. Y. Times. 10: 911. D. 23, ‘05. 200w. |
Wilson, Calvin Dill. Making the most of ourselves. [**]$1. McClure.
This series of talks for young people is broad in its scope and includes fifty chapters of helpful advice upon subjects which may be included under such headings as education, deportment, religion, work and spiritual development. The boy or girl who reads these discourses carefully, and heeds them cannot go far wrong in big or little things.
Wilson, Ella Calista. Pedagogues and parents. [**]$1.25. Holt.
It has been the author’s purpose to show the possibilities within the power of a parent of supplementing the work of the teacher, to show what is distinctly the teacher’s work and what the parent’s duty and privilege. “The pedagogue studies the laws of childhood; the parent, the temperament and needs of his particular child; the school-teacher advances the children in regiment, lock-step; the parent in their natural gait, in their strugglings and self-directed sprawlings.” The book is humorously dedicated among others to parents “whose concern for their dear little ones makes them so irregularly bold that they dare consult their own reason in the education of their children, rather than wholly to rely upon old customs.”
“It is not a treatise. Its historical chapters meander and are cheerful and chatty. Of the ideals of the past it gives amusing glimpses. A book to set tongues and pens to wagging, a book to read from preface to finis with the relish of combat or agreement. Whether you deny or assent, you are bound to laugh.” Adele Marie Shaw.
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 81. F. 11, ‘05. 2140w. |
“The book is witty, full of wholesome advice to parents and to teachers, and is just the kind of reading for the interested mothers in our women’s clubs.”
| + + | School R. 13: 200*. F. ‘05. 230w. |
Wilson, Floyd Baker. Man limitless. $1.25. Fenno.