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your W. Offet' 70U a coispiete book &eIIMng and rentai sev aeu1 the tii.. 174OmitUN ~AVENUE Oington Note BIdg. 95c A COP TH E -MO ...D1ER Ný LI BRA RY Over 200 tities the+ wilI delight the real lover of books. Chaimdlir's Fountai.n Square Evanston educators their îfleas ofthte aims and purposes of educatio*i, and to study educational systems of the various countries. The fruits of bis tour are set forth clearly and concisely in this bis Iatest book, "Remakers of Man- kind" of wbich be is co-authoir witb Myron, M. Stearns. Eleven- countriesare discussed with a view'of presenting thr.ougb inter- views tbe educational aims ofý each. rBeginn ring, with japan -we learn ,that an endeavor .is made to fit education witb Japanese society, and to make "character in accordance with, Japaniesé nationalism or imperialistii. "Education must be both . individual and, social. The individual must real- ize the idea of the -nation." In China education sbould tend.not toDward a "preconceived state, but to- wa rd the full development of each child's indi viduality.ý The general di- irection of education-sbould be toward the' princtiples enunciated by Sun -Yat- Sen.~" Mr. Washburne dramatizes and sets the stage for the entrance of Gandhi and the subsequent inter- view. Gandhi W'ould stress character building. "I would try to. develor- courage, strengtb virtue, the ability to forget one's self ini working towaïd great aims. This i.s1 more important> than literacy;. academic learning is only a means to this greater enid." AUl the leaders of India inferred that their aim was to prevent Western (particuilarly Amnerican) materialism. "Initiation into the higher jife -of the- spirit is the essence of education." said the philosopher, Radhakrishnan. About communist education in,' Russia Mr. Washbut'ne waxes elo- quent, and. is enthusiastic over and much in favor of the Soviet. govern- ment's plan of education. He~ likes the tie -up hetween the scbool and the vital, activities of the community. "Health, literacy, culture, -social or- 1ganization, political ideas flow from the school to the community andfrom the community noteshool in a cotîtintius current." The city chul- dren are taken to visit the farms, and >the farm children are showtî the in- dustrial plants of the city ; Mr. Wash- iburne's chapter on Russia s, education- "Rem akers of Mattkitd>' by Carie- ton Washburize, superintendent of Winnetka scilools, is just off 'the press, and is oite of the mnost valu- able and stimulatinig books of ifs kind. Thte airns and pur poses .of education are herewith presentcrd by noted educators and philosophers. in eleven different counttries. A BALANCED RATION FOR A WEEK'S READING. THE FOVNTAIN. By Charles .Mor- gan. Knopf. A subtie yet intense novel, a love- story of the war, against a Dutch background. AMEICA AS AMERICANS SEE IT. E-dited by Fred J. Ringel. Har- court, Brace. Studies of every aspect oi Amerî- can life, written for foreign consump- tion, but no less interésting to the na- tive born. M4EN AND MEMORIES: 1900-1922,. By Sir William Rothenstein. Cow- a rd-M cCann. The second volume of these im- portant and interesting memoirs of artistic and literary life. In "Joanna Godden *Married" a sinall boy bas a small part and is treated understandingly by the author. This time in "Summer Holiday" she. gives us a whole book about two littié chul- dren written for grown-ups. In ý the 'nineties Selina and Moira spend th.eir sumîiiers 1with their nurse at the farmn, Platnic, wliere are 'osie and Maidie Who dress diff er- enly from the.m, Who talk different- !y and say lovely words like "hows- umdever," .who Wear. boots instead of' shoes, and Who 'even have more pennies to spend. Alil these. deliglit- fui advantages. seein to belong' to them for no apparent reason. Selinai Who is,7, decides that they live an enchanted'existence because they are flot ladies and have no nurse Who lays down, careful restriction s. The ailventures of the two littie visitors are aniusing and often sad, but are alwa ys written with a deicate feeling .' for thle "long, long thoughts" of cbildhood.. The curate receives doubtful comfort f rom Selina after lie has waded'into the pond and rescued a toy cat and she tells hini flot to mind the muddy trousers for he lias no one to scold him. It iýs Selina, too, who suffers agonies. of conscience for telling a grown-up about hier imagined friend, Trimmier, who wears dresses like a fairy's and whose nulr$erv, has a carpet of pearlas and rubies. .When Moira wins a loveiy greeýn crackly pear hy breakiing thie Sab- bath, retributioni faits swift and strong and nature rebels at such desecra- tion. They hope their favorite Jar- Mati, the farmer's head man, w~ill rnarry their nurse and nurse seemns to hope so, too. They suggest niar- riage' to him on behaîf of their nurse in a proposai that camne ont, of a hook and is the only. formula. they know.: "Gentleman, genitlemnan, -give. w if e hand." Jarman, alas,, is not book- ish and their charming plan contes to naught. W/e feel aIl their regret when they leave Platnix, and Selina repeats part of a poem she hias made as they ap- proach the town, "Now for the ugly houses tect. Most of the eaiicators in the .consciousness: United States took England's' point of educational t] view in régard to the teaching Of. must be deep lieroes. In the United States it wa, that equally ii unaniniously agreed that the teacb- one's own, and ing of the three R's is not enough, the world's," thteducation here needs' re-adjust- burne. ýan, i<eopard eIyn~ vorld's good is I is interesting to observe by the 's own good is above selection of authors that the es Mr. Wasb- majority of writers of love stories are wômen,.