“The judgment used in the selection of these songs is as good as the taste displayed is broad and catholic.”
“Such a book should be graded rather than arranged artificially into groups. Mrs. Bacon is too generous, though her idea is excellent.”
“One of the best books in the ‘Every child should know’ series.”
=Badger, George Henry.= Water-star. *80c. Am. Unitar.
Four essays, The water-star, Landscape of the soul, The haunts of the hind, and Do we see nature? In the first one the water lily is used for a lesson. The author shows that in sending forth above the surface of the water so wonderful a flower the roots do quiet work in the murky depths; so in life, if crowning success be attained, there lies back of it the commonplace pegging away at stale duties.
=Bagley, William Chandler.= Classroom management: its principles and technique. *$1.25. Macmillan.
“Useful to any teacher who has not solved all his practical problems, and particularly valuable to the young teacher. The great virtue of the book is its actuality; its material has been gathered mainly from experience and observation. The writer constantly sums up the best expert opinion upon the question in hand.... The contents of the book may be suggested by a few of the chapter titles: ‘The daily program,’ ‘Hygienic conditions in the school-room,’ ‘Order and discipline,’ ‘Penalties,’ ‘The problem of attention.’”—Dial.
“The thought is sane and illuminating throughout, and the form is always clear and strong. We know of no other book that will bring more varied and abundant help to the teacher in actual hand-grips with his task.”
“While the book is written primarily for students of education in schools and colleges, it will be helpful to all teachers and will appeal to the most thoughtful and ambitious.”
“The high standpoint of the author is strikingly evident in his noble chapter on ‘The ethics of schoolcraft,’ whose seven pages, separately printed, are well worth wide distribution among teachers at public expense.”
+ + =Outlook.= 86: 834. Ag. 17, ’07. 160w.
=Bagot, Richard.= Temptation. †$1.50. Macmillan.
Italy furnishes the stage, and her people the actors for this study in psychology. A very unhappy Italian woman moved by the sinister fascination of an ancestor’s homicidal act of killing her lover by poison resorts to the same means to rid herself of a husband whom she loathes. “Ugo, the hapless count, his wife Cristina, the Duchess of San Felice, and Fabrizio, the guilty cousin, are all human figures.” (Ath.)