EDUCATION FROM A NATIONAL STANDPOINT. By Alfred Fouillée. Translated and edited, with a Preface, by W. J. Greenstreet, M. A., St. John's College, Cambridge; Head Master of the Marling School, Stroud. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
Fouillée's work is a timely and valuable contribution to the discussions of some of the important educational questions that are at present claiming attention in both this country and Europe.
SYSTEMATIC SCIENCE TEACHING. A Manual of Inductive Elementary Work for all Instructors in Graded and Ungraded Schools, the Kindergarten, and the Home. By Edward Gardnier Howe. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
A thoroughly practical and reliable guide to elementary instruction in science has long been a desideratum, and this work, embodying the results of fourteen years of actual classroom tests, will satisfactorily meet such a demand. The volume gives a general outline of work for the first three years.
THE EDUCATION OF THE GREEK PEOPLE, and its Influence on Civilization. By Thomas Davidson. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"This work is not intended for scholars or specialists, but for that large body of teachers throughout the country who are trying to do their duty, but are suffering from that want of enthusiasm which necessarily comes from being unable clearly to see the end and purpose of their labors, or to invest any end with sublime import. I have sought to show them that the end of their work is the redemption of humanity, an essential part of that process by which it is being gradually elevated to moral freedom, and to suggest to them the direction in which they ought to turn their chief efforts. If I can make even a few of them feel the consecration that comes from single-minded devotion to a great end, I shall hold that this book has accomplished its purpose."—Author's Preface.
THE EVOLUTION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS PUBLIC-SCHOOL SYSTEM. A Historical Sketch in Six Lectures. By George H. Martin, A. M., Supervisor of Public Schools, Boston, Massachusetts. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
The public discussion that arose from Professor Martin's papers upon the topic treated in this work will make the complete collection of the essays of much interest to a large circle of readers. In the present volume the author aims to show the evolutionary character of the public-school history of the State, and to point out the lines along which the development has run and the relation throughout to the social environment, and incidentally to illustrate the slow and irregular way by which the people under popular governments work out their own social and intellectual progress.
THE PYGMIES. By A. de Quatrefages, late Professor of Anthropology at the Museum of Natural History, Paris. With numerous Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.
In this interesting volume the author has gathered the results of careful studies of the small black races of Africa, and he shows what the pygmies of antiquity really were. The peculiar intellectual, moral, and religious characteristics of these races are also described.