WILMETTE LIFE January 21, 1927 DID YOU KNOWThat the Book of the Month club is taking legal action against a book seller who invited his C!1stomers to belong to a local club blj that name? FOUNTAIN SQUARE EVANSTON Telephones University I 024 Wilmette 3 700 Rogers Park 112 2 BOOK SUGGESTIONS The Delectable Mountains Struthers Butt Scribner's Sl.OO Dapiel Quayne J. S. Flttchet Doun $1.00 The Flying Death Edwin Balmer Dodd, Mud ~ Co. The Missing Chancellor J. S. Fletcher Alfred A. Knopf $1.00 The Golden Butterfly A. M. ·Williamson Doran $1.00 Anthology of Magazine Verse-1926 W. S. Braithwaite Brimmer The Younger Married Set · George S. Chappell Illustrated by Gluyas Williama Houghton Mifflin Co. s1 ·7 5 The Orphan Angel Elinor Wylie Alfred A. Knopf Tides Ada and Julian Street Doubleday Page $1.00 The Comedians Louis Couperus Doran The Emerald Hilaire Belloc 2 I :m I Drawings by G. K. Chesterton Harptr's Books on Education GENERAL: Cubberley-Introduction to the St ucl , of Education. That Von Tripitz' new book is an Spencer-Education. apologia for his war policlj for which FollmYing are listed a fe\\· of the Yeomans-Shaclded Youth. he has been criticized in official docuhooks on education which ha\'e been THEORY OF EDUCATION: ments? published during the past year:. Dewey-Democracy an'd the Child . General Interest That Larry Burrel/o confesses in a ~e\\: Schools for Old. "~ c \\· Schools in the Old \Vorld" small maqazine called "The Book Flcxner-M odern Colleg-e and t 1 11 -Carleton \Vashburne Chat'·' that he alWalJs lVanted to write ~r odern Sch~ol. ~r r. \Vashburne of \\'innetka de.sa cook book? · Rohii1son - Humanizing t)i Kno\\' 1 crjbes the outstanding progressive edge. That Hamlin Garland's latest book. schools of Europe. Russcll - Fcluration and thl' l,;tr!-!(' '" "Trail Mnhers of the Middle Border" Life. was illustrated by his daughter? ' ' "Influence of 1\urturc Cpon ::\atiYc ~harp- Ecluratinn i11 :1 Democran. Differenccs" - 'fruman Lee Kelle,· Patrnn . . 11f a lkmncrac _ , .. · The author presents, as he say~. "a HI STOl~ Y OF I·:IH 'C.\ Tl0:\ : Books on Education technique for the investigation of the C uhhnln·-- His ton· of Fduca t ion . relative influci1ce of hereditv and enAlmost oYernigbt, as it were. the . Rea<li1~g:-. in Educa t i ~ll 1 . ,·ironmcnt." and also point's out the penclt~lum. S\\' tti~g from the old type of (~ra \T:-. - H i:-.tory of Fdm:at inn . tremenduous possihiliti<'s of measun·teachmg m whtch the teacher was the R usse II-A merica n 1·:d nr at ion . m en t. . outstanding figure to the new when ~1 ETHODS: attention was directed to the child and Bourne-Gary Schools. the child's preparation for life came to "Education for Responsibility" Can fie ld-~1 ontcssori l\f other. The members of the facu'Jt,- of the be of primary c~nsideration. ~cw Coe-Law and Freedom III l h·· South Philadelphia High S~hool for methods were necessa.ry which has rcSchool. (,irJs give the .results of their experisul.ted in a vast number of hook s being Hotchkiss-Projcrt ~fcthod in (l:t-.~ ences the past three years during wntten not only for the professional Room Work which time they have hcen using the hut for the layman as well, because · ~fontessori-Montessori 1lethod. education is claiming the attention of Dalton plan. Mother's Letters to :t the thinking man ancl woman todaY as Schoolmaster. much as any suhj(:Ct of gtneral il~tcr "Human Conduct and the Law" Freeman-Visual Education. est. -Mary C. Love Inskeep- Teaching Dull and Rr fn the word::; of the auth~r she be-. ·tarded Children. Excrptiona 1 lieves that "education in the sources Horn-Education of ulhopia in Chains" and col:::>r of conduct, instincts. emoChildren. 'TTOPL\ I X f~H,\T~S"-:\forri:-; ( · 'cn·din · · · I .ee- Pl ay 111 · Ed ucatton. · twns, senttments, c1 nracter an d rca\Vhcn \\'e stop at all to think ahont soning should rank with the three Sics-Spontaneous and Supeni . e<l Russia we must-or I have, at least. R's as a fundamental," and she gives Play in Childhood. tho.ught about it so Yaguely. Reports her reasons for desiring to sec chilO'Brien-Silent Reading. \Yh1ch have come to us have been so dren given this kind of education. Stevenson-Project Method m contradictory, so many of them paTeaching. tcntly trumped up. that we have had Professional Parkhurst-Education on the Dalton to regard it as a place infiniteh· re- "The Fine Art ·of Writing for Thp:'e Plan. mote. ~urrounded hy a sort of n-1\'s'tic \Vho Teach It" EL EME~TA RY EDUCATION: circle of flame. - H. Robinson Shipherd Dodds-Primary Handwork. But here in "Ctopia in Chains" i:-. The :-~ection 0n methods has practical Gesell-~orma l Child and Primar~· word from one who nenetrated throug-h suggestions for teaching \\'hich are Education. the flames and \\"ho h::1 s rrturned. the result of years of experit·nce ancl Moore-PrimarY School. Morris Conlin, an ardent Socialist. \ras inYaluahle to the teacher of English. SECONDARY EDUCATIOK: in Chicago . at the outbreak of the I Davis-Junior High School. Russian Revoluti 0 n. Thrilled to the l "l'nrriculum Problen,1s" . . TngJis-Principles of Secondary Ed11 cation. core at the thought of sering the work- rl 1omas H . Bnggs 1 ing out of his dreams his one idea \yas T\\·enty-sevet: problems of the curri- 1 Johnston-High School Education. to get to Russia. rulum are chscussed. · The Modern High School. I Mearns-Creative Youth. He - Retarded Children" ' VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE 1 plunged ii1t~ the work t>rest·nterl "Ttarhing Dull anrl . ' : to 1im. first in Moscow, then in thr -Annie Dolman Inskeet) Adams-Women Profcsswnal \\'(Irk province:, later in Moscow again. For , 'l ers. l 11.' retarded child is discusserl in B rewer- \ T ocational Guidance ~~on· -tll .ree ~·ear . lle w·orkecl' ,,,,·tllt.Il tllat great disciplined organization of the general and in relation to the differ:ment. ·Communist Party, fighting down <~t ent su bjects o'f the 'Curriculum. Davis-Vocational and Moral Guid first, finally trying to awd\"Z(' his "~f odern Methods m High Sch~:>Ol ance. T 1 · ., H R D Filene-Careers for Women growing di sillu sionment. Tt i~ a sad 1 · ou~lass eac ltng-. ar Fn-er-Vocational Self-g-uid.anre tale of graft and terrorism. pettY and C hapters whtch are espe~1ally worthy COL.LEGE: · · despicable intrigu_e and favoritisl-11. A ~f not.e are thos.e on proJect tea.ch~ng · Gavit-College. talc to make you sorry for human 111 whtch t.here ts a short descnpttnn Rice-College and the Future. nature, to make you realize that man is of the Wmnetka system. M A-GAZTNES: not ready for any Utopia yet. At la!'lt · Elementary School Journal. when ~fr. Gordin's disillusionn, ent was "'1'1 p 1 1 · Cl 'ldl d" School and Society. compJr.te. he fled the countn· on ~ H' ro' ems o~ 11 100 . faked passport. And now he fs telling . . ---,.~ngelo ~at rt I School Arts :\fagazine. School Life. his gained knowledge to the world A .coll~ctton of short arttcles wntten pnmanly for the young teacher hv -EsTHER GouLD. one who needs no introduction. · Se::;sue Hayakawa, fa\'oritc Oriental thriller of the movies has turned hi s attention to lite.r .ature and produced a ~-===---===thriller there. It is the story of "The Bandit Prince" a Chinese Robin Hood. The Ne"· York Times describes it as a "second class novel" hut as showing promise. Evidently there is hope for Sessue as a literary man yet. I ~(f)Vll<eW)f~ <O>f 1B «»~IlK~ · - ~ ---:... - 1 BALLARD'S I BOOK SHOP Phone Wilmette 256 6 Lord'a Book ShopFint Floor Jult Inside the Wt~t Davi1 Street Door. I I and Rental Library VILLAGE THEATRE BLDG. 1150 Wilmette Avenue ij -======-==== I I , 1 Anne Parrish's -new novel "Tomor/ ro\\" Morning" follows in th~ tradition lj of her first novel, "The Perennial : Ba~helor." It is a story of a man. i spoiled hopelessly by his mother, 1111 _ able to make the transition into the real world and being left behind hopelessly by the things that change.