the pupils of the mathematical processes that they had barely learned to operate in time for examination. Each grade teacher can to advantage run thru the typical practice of the preceding year for which purpose the review lessons given in several issues of Educational Foundations in this department last spring will be found useful. This entertaining review will bring to mind the kind of work that was last performed more quickly than would seem possible and in a way that is entirely pleasant and acceptable to the youngsters who have dreaded the return of school days. Most teachers will find their classes overjoyed with the use of the ModelStore at the beginning of the term: will find them mentally back "on the job" in surprisingly brief time: will find them ready and able to use the store later for each new step at a saving of time. And, lest you forget, we repeat one teacher's explanation of how the time is saved. She pointed out that she could make any subject clearer to her class in one Model-Store lesson than she could in two or even three lesson periods by abstract teaching. Each lesson period represents a school day, and in this way this teacher saves from one to two days several times during the term. The conductor of this department is living in the hope that every single teacher in every school that has a Model-Store will get this benefit. First make sure that the Drill Book is on hand and that the materials are sufficient in quantity and clean and undamaged in condition. Send to us for what you need at once and we will do all that is possible to supply you quickly. The government has taken control of tin containers and many products previously packed in tin are being temporarily packed in paper, so that both forms of container are harder to get than has been the case in the past. The subscribers to the work are loyally making every effort to supply the needs of the schools, and we believe that if the teachers will be prompt in their requests, they can be supplied with the essentials of Model-Store materials. Do not hesitate to ask for them, but please be considerate of our difficulties in these matters, keeping us fully informed about your store at all times that we may plan as far ahead as possible. We trust that in the near future there will be no schools that have overlooked that kindness to us which consists in making a report on the work in which we have expended so much energy. We are glad to do it for all, but we are human enough to be inspired to greater effort by those who show appreciation, and correspondingly depressed by those who forget to even drop us a line when we have done for them what they ask. The teachers who have known five ways to use the store to advantage now have fifty ways placed before them in simple form in the Drill Book. Each of these fifty ways suggests many others automatically, and we are eager to hear about them all that another volume may be prepared which will be still more helpful to America's educators. Book Mention Christ's Economy, Scientific Management of Men and Things In Relation to God and His Cause. By Eugene M. Camp, One of the Founders of the Seabury Society of New York. With Introduction by The Rev. Charles S. Burch, D.D. Suffragan Bishop of New York. The Seabury Society. Everychild's Series Swiss Stories and Legends by Francis M. Froelicher, Head of the Modern Language Department, Park School, Baltimore, Md. The Macmillan Company. Price 40c. Essentials in Mechanical Drawing. By L. J. Smith, B. S. Macmillan Company. Price 50c. The Story of Foods. By Forrest Crissey, with an introduction by Douglas C. Ridgley Professor of Geography, Illinois State Normal University. Rand McNally & Company. A Schoolmaster of the Great City. By Angelo Patri. The Macmillan Company. Old Settler Stories. By Mabel Elizabeth The New History, Essays Illustrating The Modern Historical Outlook. By James Harvey Robinson, Professor of History in Columbia University. The Macmillan Company. Illustrative Handwork for Elementary School Subjects, A Desk Manual For Classroom Teachers. By Ella Victoria Dobbs, B. S., A. M. The Macmillan Company. Price $1.10. One Thousand Literary Questions and Answers. By Mary Eleanor Kramer. Publishers, Sully and Kleinteich. Price, $1.00. The New Barnes Problem Book, Seventh Year First Half. By Abraham Smith, M. A. Principal, Public Schools, New York City, Price 10c. The New Barnes Problem Books, Seventh The New Barnes Problem Books, Eighth A Composition Grammar. By James Our Flag and Its Message. By Major Jas. A. Moss, U. S. A. and Major M. B. Stewart, U. S. A. including The President's Appeal for Unity. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. Price $.25. Muscular Movement Writing Primary Book, by C. C. Lister, Director of Penmanship, Brooklyn Training School for Teachers. The Macmillan Company. Price, 14c. The Teaching of Reading. A Manual to accompany Everyday Classics Third and Fourth Readers. By Franklin T. Baker, Professor of English in Teachers' College and Supervisor of English in the Horace Mann School and Ashley H. Thorndike, Professor of English in Columbia University. The Macmillan Company. Price, 50c. Old Time Schools and School Books. By Clifton Johnson. With many illustrations collected by the author. The Macmillan Company. Price $1.40. The The Building of Cities. By Harlean James, Everyday Bookkeeping. By Artemas M. I to IV. By W. J. Worden. Published by In The Claws Of The German Eagle. By Training the Children. By James L. The Socialized Recitation. By William The Progressive Series. Regent Question and Answer Books, Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene; Arithmetic; History. By Isaac Price, A. M. Hinds, Hayden & Eldredge, Inc., New York. The Basis of Durable Peace, Written at the Invitation of the New York Times. By Cosmos. Charles Scribner's Sons. The High School, A Study of Origins and Tendencies by Frank Webster Smith, Ph.D. with an introduction by John Calvin Hanna, Supervisor of High Schools, State of Illinois. Sturgis & Walton Company. Price $2.00 net. An Experimental Study in The Psychology of Reading. Bv William Anton Schmidt. The University of Chicago Press. Price 75c net. No. 1 Studies of Elementary-School Reading Through Standardized Tests. By William Scott Gray. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill. Price $1.00 postage extra. Readers not in close touch with publishers will find many advantages in buying books thru The Book Buyers League care EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS 31-33 E. 27 Street BOOK MENTION Cuba and Her People of Today, resembling that of certain other Latin By Forbes Lindsay. L. C. Page & Company, Boston, publishers. Pan-Americanism is being well served by the L. C. PAGE COMPANY in their very attractive three-dollar books on various South and Central American countries. The book on "Cuba and Her People of Today" is an attractive piece of book-making. There are fifty or more brown tinted photographs selected evidently with considerable care for artistic effect as well as for the purpose of graphic portrayal of the life in this Island country, so important to know, especially by Americans. The book rises out of the guide-book class by reason of its excellent interpretation of the politics and industries of the Island, as they affect and are carried on by the people of SpanishAmerican stock. The place given to historical background is vital since no adequate idea of the races south of us can be gained without a clear idea of the radical differences under which the nations of North and Central America were founded and developed. Cuba is shown to be a country in transition, with large exports of sugar, and tobacco, with great untouched resources in minerals and in agriculture. The chapter on "The People of the Country" should be read by every prospective traveller or business man intending to visit the island, or do business with these keen Islanders. The attitude of the Cuban, who in the words of Mr. Lindsay, "is a Spaniard to the same extent as the American is English, and no more," to education, the Church, to his home life and to democracy is revealed as American nations, but with important differences. These differences are particularly important for Americans to understand in these days of closer affiliations thru the exigencies of war. Trade opportunities are also presented here; we know of no better introduction to this land of palms and sunshine than this well-written informing book of FORBES LINDSAY.C. S. C. North Brazil The book on "North Brazil" which APPLETON & COMPANY presents in their South American Handbook series is written by E. C. BULEY, who has also written on South Brazil. It is well provided with maps and illustrations and sells for $1.75 net. The book of approximately 200 pages attempts little or no interpretation but gives the factual and statistical knowledge which every foreigner needs to have in mind before venturing southward into the greatest in extent and also in future possibility of the South American Republics. A succinct account is given of each of the North Brazilian States, showing their climatic, agricultural and export conditions, and there are tables and appendices affording detailed information regarding money, steamships, postal and telegraph facilities important for travelers and business men. The wonderful and little known Amazon country is well presented and the hints regarding health conditions, flora and the needs and progress of the rubber lands are treated comprehensively in figures and geographical data. The author has written a handbook, as the series suggests, and the traveler who carries this book with him to Brazil, or reads it at home will find a Baedeker of real value. C. S. C. English Literature-A Guide to the Best Reading by Edwin L. Miller, A. M. Published by J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia. The author of this pleasant volume is principal of a high school in Detroit. He has probably been and mayhap now is a teacher of English Literature. If so he is an example of a professional man unspoiled by professionalism. He writes as one with a heart for his work. He is human enough to allow a little humor to seep thru the soil of his learning. Therefore, while he has produced an effective handbook for schools, he has given us also a highly vitalized story of the glorious achievements of the men and women who have produced our literature. Any lover of books can find sweet comfort and refreshment in this fountain of knowledge. It is a wonderful story, well told. Outlines, Questions and Answers CANADIAN SCHOOLS AND THE WAR The following outline is taken from a circular distributed by the Ontario Department of Education. It will be expedient, perhaps imperative to make some similar adjustment of history and geography courses in the schools of the United States: N an announcement of November, IN 1914, the Minister of Education drew the attention of the teachers of the Province to their responsibilities in connection with the momentous War in which Britain and her allies are still engaged, and directed them to teach "its causes and the interests at stake as well as the relations thereto of the different nations directly or indirectly concerned" as part of the Course of Study in history for every pupil in every school of the Province so far as they can be intelligently taken up in the different grades. The Minister now acknowledges with pleasure the zeal with which the teachers have accepted their new responsibilities. In the schools they have taught the War. Outside the schools they have organized and collected patriotic and Red Cross funds, provided comforts for the troops, assisted the recruiting sergeants, and in large numbers volunteered for service. Nor have they failed, in the schools or outside, to make clear the truth that "while each of the Overseas Dominions is mistress in her own house, her welfare is bound up with that of the British Islands and she owes loyal and filial service to the Mother of Nations." The War has now entered upon its third year and the schools have entered upon their third session since the War began, and the Minister is confident that the teachers of Ontario will accept their responsibilities during the third session with the same de |