Devins, John Bancroft. Observer in the Philippines. $2. Am. tract.

This report is the result of two months’ careful investigation in Luzon. It gives interesting notes of travel and fully covers the social, political and religious field. It tells what American missionaries are doing and shows that many of the Americans in the Philippines are of a type as greatly in need of missionaries as the Filipinos themselves.

“Dr. Devins’s book is non-discriminating and simple-minded in a high degree.” H. Parker Willis.

+ —Dial. 39: 37. Jl. 16, ‘05. 390w.

“Has included in his volume much useful information and much matter interesting and entertaining for one reason and another.”

+ + —N. Y. Times. 10: 580. S. 2, ‘05. 1080w.
+ + +Outlook. 80: 142. My. 13, ‘05. 270w.
+R. of Rs. 31: 767. Je. ‘06. 140w.

Dexter, Edwin Grant. History of education in the United States. [**]$2. Macmillan.

The work comprises in less than seven hundred pages of text “a survey of education in this country from the landing of the Cavaliers and of the Puritans to the opening of the twentieth century, including in it an historical survey and an analysis of contemporary conditions of education in every state in the Union, of every stage of education from kindergarten to popular lecture courses for adults, and of every phase of educational activity from an account of early schoolbooks to newspapers and periodicals of the various periods, the publication of learned societies and the work of libraries.... The general organization of the work is into three parts: the growth of the people’s schools, higher and special education, and educational extension.” (Educ. R.)

“This book is very attractive in its make-up, but it will prove disappointing to those who hold that the history of education should be history. The declared purpose of the author is to present a mass of fact rather than discussions of historical trend. But instances are far too numerous in which the fact is not even fact.” Elmer Ellsworth Brown.

+ —Am. Hist. R. 10: 657. Ap. ‘05. 420w.