RECENT BOOKS SCIENCEEDUCATION IN CONSUMER BUYING. Georce L. Bush. Ed. D. Bureau of Publications. Teachers college, ~ o l u m h i a University, New York City. 1941. x 228 pp. 14 X 22 cm. 52.35. Several aspects of consumer education digested for use by science teachers are presented. Included is a critical appraisal of sources of consumer education including (1) books, (2) federal government agencies, (3) private testing agencies, and (4) professional associations. Illustrative consumer-education material covers foods, clothing, shelter, and miscellaneous items. Without adding anything new to either consumer education or science education, this book points out the many areas where the fields overlap, or can he made to coincide. Arguing that science courses must include substantially greater amounts of consumer education in the future, the theme is carried with enthusiasm to considerable detail. The reader is sometimes left stranded with expressions such as: "Most people purchase a high proportion of their goods health services" (page 4) ; "Changes in new automobiles are made rather rapidly" (page 12) ; "Science education faces extraordinary difficulties in connection with the buying of clothing" (page 118); "It is evident that our warm homes, public buildings and automobiles are not a t all consistent, from a health standpoint, with the lightweight dresses, thin silk stockings, and flimsy slippers which women wear t o brave the snow and subzero temperatures" (page 118); or even the title itself. ELBERTC. WEAVER
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF MINERAL INDUSTRYEDUCATION I N THE UNITEDSTATES.Thomas Thornton Read, E.M.. Ph.D.. Vinton Professor of Mining Engineering, Columbia University. Foreword by Herbert Hoozer, Mining Engineer and Ex-President of the United States. First Edition. The American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Inc., New York City, 1941. vii 298pp. 26figs. 15 X 23 cm. $2.00. According t o the preface, the book is the outgrowth of the activities of the Mineral Industry Education Division of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, oreanized in 1932. Shortlv after oreanization of the division two kart* hwame evident: "The first was that the men engaged in eduratiunal work in this firld typically thought of therncrlres a i rwhnologisls, and only srcondarily (or not a t all) ns educators. The second was that lack of a common background of general knowledge on the broad subject of education for the mineral industries hampered discussion of educational problems. This was a natural result of the first condition, since no one had taken the time t o studv the whole field from snv viewooint other than rrchnical content of rurricuh. Tlrc general subject of education has been subjected to much professional sttdy. and it i
