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31. Coursault, J. H. The learning process; or educational theory implied in theory of knowledge. Columbia Univ. $1. (Teachers coll. cont.

to educ. no. 16.)

99 p. O.

Another attempt to get hold of and delimit the fundamental theory of education by detaching it from the great body of speculative philosophy. The theories of a dozen or more philosophic systems are considered, their educational implications indicated, and the resultant theory summarized.

32. Cox, C: F. What education is of most worth?

64: 638-60.)

33. Darroch, Alexander. O. Jack, 1s.

(Bibliotheca sacra, Oct.

(The) children; some educational problems. 133 p.

"This little book seeks to emphasize that the aim of all education is to secure the social efficiency of the future members of the state, and that this involves an endeavor to secure the physical, economic, and ethical efficiency of the children of the nation."

34. Draper, A. S. Addresses and papers. 132 p. O. N. Y. State Education dep't. Gratis.

CONTENTS.-Appointing officers and civil service regulations.-The nation's responsibilities concerning dependent peoples.-What next about Union University?—The schools and international peace.-The American type of university. New York's obligations to her history.-Illiteracy in the United States. A Federal educational plan needed.-National systems of education.— What the women's clubs may do for the schools.

35. Hadley, A. T. Economy in education. (N. Y. Associated academic principals. Proc. twenty-second ann. conference, p. 10–21.)

36. Harnack, Adolf, and Herrmann, Wilhelm. The moral and social significance of modern education. (In their Essays on the social gospel. Putnam, $1.25. p. 92-141.)

An address by Dr. Harnack in 1902 before the Evangelical Social Congress in Dortmund.

37. Harper, J. W.

Education and social life. 315 p. D. Pitman, 4s. 6d.

This book emphasizes the effect which judiciously organized and administered education may have on social progress, and indicates that this most important educational result is sometimes minimized by too much attention to utilitarianism.

38. Harris, W. T. Social culture in the form of education and religion. (Congress of arts and sciences. Houghton. v. 8, p. 1-16.)

"The perennial continuance of the world-view of Christianity through the special form of social culture which belongs to the church is a necessary condition presupposed by the forms of social culture intrusted to the school."

39. Hayward, F. H. (The) meaning of education as interpreted by Herbart. 217 p. D. Ralph, Holland & Co., 2s.

40. Jolly, William. Ruskin on education; some needed but neglected elements. 167 p. S. Geo. Allen, 1s.

"A hortatory preachment, not a philosophical essay; a fervent and persuasive exposition."-London Journal of Education.

41. Lockyer, Norman. Education and national progress: essays and addresses, 1870-1905. 282 p. O. Macmillan, 5s.

The chapters have nearly all been previously printed in different places. Collected, they form a contribution to British educational history and policy for the period covered.

42. Magnus, Philip. The application of scientific method to education. (Nature, 22 Aug., 76: 434-9.)

Also in Science, n. s. 26:574-86.

Opening address before the educational science section of the British Association, August 1, 1907. An argument to show that while education itself may not yet fulfill all the conditions which would justify its claim to be classed as a science, the scientific method of investigation is most effective in dealing with educational problems. Illustrates from the reform of English elementary education.

43. Matthews, F. H. The principles of intellectual education. 138 p. D. Cambridge Univ. press, 2s. 6d.

A dozen chapters on the theory and aims (exactness and flexibility) of education and the order in which each curriculum subject should be studied to get the greatest educational value. The point of view is distinctly Herbartian, and the tests constantly applied are interest and adaptability to correlation. The earliest formal education should be through the senses and largely by means of manual activities. Greek should be studied before Latin and modern languages before either.

44. Owen, W: B. Social education through the school. (School rev. Jan., 15:11-26.)

Paper read at nineteenth educational conference of the academies and high schools in relations with the University of Chicago.

The school being a social institution in that it is itself a society, Dean Owen proposes to enlarge the functions of the school to include the general social training of the child so far as his life in the school affords opportunity, and considers the general features of a practical way of going about the work.

45. Parker, S. C. Finding the individual. (Jour. of ped. June, 19: 193–213.) Are individual differences in human beings fundamental? Of what social importance are they? How may they be discovered and differentiated in formal education?

46. Reich, Emil. The constants of success-education.

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47. Rooper, T. G.

(In his Success in

Selected writings; edited with a memoir by R. G. Tatton.

293 p. O. Blackie, 7s. 6d.

These 19 papers have all been printed before, most of them in the author's volumes, School and Home Life, and Educational Studies and Addresses.

48. Storms, A. B. Democracy and education.

(In N. E. A. Proc., p. 62-70.) The function and opportunities of education in a republic. Advantages and dangers from the commercial aspects of education and research.

49. Tyler, J. M. Growth and education. 294 p. D. Houghton, $1.50.

A scientific study of the growth of the child, which argues for physical and moral as well as intellectual efficiency in education. To guide teacher and parent, the important facts of biology, evolution, and physiology are presented, which bear on the development of the child. There is a chapter on manual training.

370.1. PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION.

See also No. 237.

50. Bennett, C. J. C. Formal discipline. 76 p. O. Teachers college, 50c. Some of the psychological bearings and effects of that part of the educational process which makes for mental discipline.

51. Keatinge, M. W. Suggestion in education. 202 p. O. A. & C. Black, 4s. 6d.

A consideration of the practical results obtainable in teaching from the deliberate, extended, and studied use of the same psychological quality of "suggestion" that is employed in hypnotism.

52. Schwarz, Hermann. The study of experimental pedagogy in Germany. (School rev. Jan., 15:1-10; Sept., 15:535-43; Nov., 15: 631-42.)

What psychology shows to be the most fruitful hours for class instruction and for study. Studies in fatigue as affecting the assignment of time in the school day. Value and effect of home study.

53. Urwick, W. E. The child's mind; its growth and training, being a short study of some processes of learning and teaching. 269 p. D. Longmans, $1.50.

An attempt to set forth in simple and, so far as possible, untechnical language some results already obtained from a study of mind growth as an organic process, and to establish a clear and definite connection between those processes of learning which the mind possesses and the methods by which it should be taught and trained. The author's object is to found the teaching and training of children on the results of psychology and biology so far as these sciences have explained the development of children's minds.

370.5. PERIODICALS.

Only new journals are included in this section. The current British journals are listed and characterized in each volume of the Schoolmaster's Yearbook. See also No. 212.

54. Bardeen, C. W. Educational journalism. (N. E. A. 50th anniv. vol. p. 506-514.)

Brief notes supplementing earlier and fuller data in N. E. A. Proceedings, 1893, and School Bulletin, volumes 19-20. The journals are named with editors and dates published. Estimates are seldom attempted.

55. Social education quarterly and proceedings of the Social education congress; edited by C. A. Scott. 6 Kirkland road, Cambridge station, Boston, $2 per year.

Number one appeared in March, 1907, and the three numbers for that year are filled with the papers read at the Social Education Congress, November 30, 1906.

370.6. ASSOCIATIONS AND SOCIETIES.

The volumes of proceedings of certain American educational associations are noted in this section. A list of British societies with officers and brief sketch of each is found in the Schoolmaster's Yearbook for each year.

56. Association of American universities. Journal of proceedings and addresses of the eighth annual conference held in Cambridge, Mass. Nov. 23– 24, 1906. 111 p. O. Assoc. No price.

57. Association of colleges and preparatory schools of the middle states and Maryland. Proceedings of the twentieth annual convention held at Philadelphia, Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 1906. 144 p. O. A. H. Quinn, Secy., Univ. of Pa. Philadelphia. No price.

58. Association of colleges and preparatory schools of the southern states. Proceedings of the thirteenth annual meeting, Birmingham, Ala. Nov. 7–8, 1907. 89 p. O. J. H. Kirkland, Sec. Vanderbilt Univ. Nashville, Tenn.

59. Catholic educational association. Report of the proceedings and addresses of the fourth annual meeting, Milwaukee, Wis., July 8-11, 1907. 396 p. O. Rev. F. W. Howard, Sec. 1651 E. Main St., Columbus, O. No price.

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60. Conference for education in the south. Proceedings of the tenth annual conference, Pinehurst, N. C. April 9-11, 1907. 300 p. O. S. C. Mitchell, Richmond college, Richmond, Va. No price.

61. Congress of arts and sciences, universal exposition, St. Louis, 1904; edited by Howard J. Rogers. Volume 8, Education and religion. 493 p. O. Houghton, $2.50.

The most important papers which were not separately published in 1904-5 have been entered in this bibliography under their proper subjects.

62. Educational associations. (N. E. A. 50th anniv. vol. p. 453-506.)

Brief accounts of the origin, growth, and work of 14 American associations. The information presented has never before been collected, and it is well to have these contributions.

63. Michigan schoolmasters' club. Proceedings at the forty-second meeting held in Ann Arbor, Mar. 27-30, 1907. 150 p. Q. Ann Arbor, 50c.

64. Monroe, W. S.

Recent international congress at Liège. (N. E. A. 50th anniv. vol. p. 351-355.)

66. National education association. Journal of proceedings and addresses at the forty-fifth annual meeting held at Los Angeles, Cal., July 8-12, 1907. 1102 p. O. Irwin Shepard, Winona, Minn., $2.

Certain of the papers are separately noted under the proper headings in other parts of this bibliography. An account of the important business done at the Los Angeles meeting is found in the October-December number of the Forum, p. 228-33.

67. National educational association. Fiftieth anniversary volume 1857-1906. 949 p. O. Irwin Shepard, Winona, Minn., $2.

Includes Proceedings and papers of the department of superintendence at Louisville, February, 1906; a notable report on instruction in library administration in normal schools; 13 important papers specially prepared for this volume by members in America and other lands; a chapter sketching the history of various educational associations, and a wealth of statistical and bibliographical matter relating to the N. E. A. itself. Many of the articles in this volume are indexed separately under proper subject in this bibliography.

68. National society for the scientific study of education. Sixth year book. 2 pts; O. Univ. of Chic. press, $1.28.

Pt. 1.-Vocational studies for college entrance. Pt. 2. The kindergarten.

69. National union of teachers. Thirty-seventh annual report, 1907 and list of members for 1906. 432 p. O. N. U. T. 1s.

A handbook giving statistics and regulations about the N. U. T., list of associations in the union, names and addresses of members, and much general information relating to English teachers.

70. N. Y. (state) —Associated academic principals.

Proceedings of the

twenty-second annual conference . . . 1906. 98 p. O. Albany, Educ. dept. No price. (Secondary education bulletin 36.)

71. N. Y. (state) -Education department. Forty-fourth university convocation. 116 p. O. Alb. No price. (Department Bulletin 4.)

Certain of the papers are entered separately in this bibliography.

72. New York state association of school commissioners and superintendents. Proceedings of the 51st annual meeting at Cornell university, Ithaca, Oct. 3–5, 1906. 104 p. O. N. Y. State Education dep't. Gratis. Concerned with the rural schools of New York State.

370.7. THE STUDY OF EDUCATION.

See also material on normal schools in section 371.12.

73. Rein, Wilhelm.

The place and office of pedagogy in the university. (Con

gress of arts and sciences. Houghton. v. 8, p. 50–63.)

Examines the nature and contents of the formal science and art of pedagogy, and discusses its relations with other subjects and the function and purpose of teaching it.

370.9. HISTORY OF EDUCATION.

History of higher education and of individual colleges and universities is under section 378 and its geographical subdivisions. For matter on systems of secondary education, which is current chronicle to-day but will be history tomorrow, see section 379.5.

General.

74. Anderson, L. F. A study of mediæval schools and school work. (Ped. sem. June, 14: 223-82.)

75.

Author has brought together and grouped under numerous captions relating to history, curriculum, and methods of work many bits of educational information dug from books not commonly quoted in such a connection. Bibliography, p. 280-282.

Study of the prototypes of the moderna non-professional school among the Greeks and Romans. (Ped. sem. Mar., 14:1-38.)

Description of early Greek and Roman education, giving the character and methods of instruction. Bibliography, p. 37-38.

76. McEvoy, T. J.

Epitome of history and principles of education. 267 p. D. Author, 306 Fulton st., Brooklyn. No price.

Not a connected narrative or history, but 47 syllabi arranged in approximate chronologic order; apparently designed to help teachers or normal students prepare for examination.

77. Turner, William. Irish teachers in the Carolingian revival of learning. (Catholic univ. bulletin, July, 13:382–99; Oct. 562-81.)

An account of the literary activity of the Irish scholars of the ninth and tenth centuries, based upon manuscripts found in the libraries of Germany, France, and Italy.

78. Walsh, J. J. The thirteenth-greatest of centuries. summer school press, $2.50.

436 p. O. Catholic

Lectures delivered at the school. Chapters 2-7 and 9 discuss medieval universities and their work, the arts and crafts, technical schools, popular education, books, and libraries.

Alaska.

79. Jackson, Sheldon. Report on education in Alaska. (U. S.-Education, Comm'r of. Reports for 1905. 1:267-91; 1906, 1:237-55.)

The usual annual statistical reviews, with chapter on the Government reindeer herd.

Canada.

80. Coleman, H. T. J. Public education in Upper Canada. 120 p. O. Columbia Univ. $1. (Teachers coll. cont. to educ. no. 15.)

A selective, descriptive, and interpretative study of public education only in what is now the Province of Ontario, from 1791 to 1841, with a brief added chapter enumerating tendencies since the latter date. It covers much the same period; is not so broad in scope as Doctor Ross's school system of Ontario, but goes more thoroughly into cause, effect, and significance of events.

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