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istry for use as optional material for the better students; such material often adds greatly t o the interest of the course. The twenty drawings of apparatus are excellent hut i t may be questioned if perspective drawings are as well adapted for Laboratory Manual of High-School Chem- elementary instruction as are the simpler istry. GEORGE HOWARD BRUCE, line drawings. Where students are required t o draw the apparatus used in an Horace Mann School for Boys, Teachers' College, Columbia University. World experiment, there are few who can do perBook Company, Yonkers, New Yark, spective well, while most pupils can do an 101 pp. Twenty illnstra- acceptable line drawing. 1928. ix The appendix contains the usual useful tionsof apparatus. 13 X 19cm. $0.76. tables. The directions t o students a t the I n the preparation of this manual the author states that he has tried t o keep in beginning of the book contain much useful and valuable advice as to laboratory promind the point of view of the student. cedure. The experiments with the accompanying The hook is well printed and bound. I t directions have been tried out in the classwill form a welcome addition t o the list of room in mimeographed form, in proof, and laboratory manuals in which teachers of in the first edition. Clearness of direction chemistry should he interested. and ease of manipulation have been talked C. H. STONE over with the students. The result of this ENGLISH HIGH SCHOOL, painstaking effort is a series of experiBOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS ments which are well within the understanding and manipulative skill of the. The Development of the High-School average boy or girl. No difficult experiCurriculum. Sixth Year Book, Dep't ments have been included. So-called of Superintendence of N. E. A,, The demonstration experiments have been Nat. Educ. Assoc., 1201 Sixteenth St., omitted as more suitable far a teacher's N. W., Washingon, D. C., 1928. 584 handbook than for a laboratory manual. pp. with 53 tables. 15.5 X 23 cm. The hook is issued in both the hound $2.00. form and the looseleaf form. The latter This volume is but one of a series of would, perhaps, be more readily adaptable for use with other tents than the author's year hooks, which have emanated from High-School Chemistry which this manual the same source, upon curriculum conwas written to accompany. By making struction. Former titles are: Elementary suitable change in the order of experi- School Curriculum; Research in Conments, this manual might be used with any structing Elementary School Curriculum; of the usual high-school texts in elemen- The Nation a t Work on the Public School Curriculum; and The Junior High-School tary chemistry. The experiments offered are those usual Curriculum. "The Development of the HighSchoJL t o the beginner's course and include little that is new or markedly different. But Curriculum" is the work of twenty-four the experiments are well thought out, the committees. The first twelve chapters directions are clear snd simple, and the deal with twelve outstanding issues which questions are intended to direct the stu- all local school systems must face before dent's attention to essential points in the entering upon an extensive program of procedure or to stimulate thought on the revision of secondary school curriculum. Among these chapter titles are: The Needs matter in hand. Some teachen would, doubtless, wel- of American Youth; Objectives of Seconcome more experiments on applied chem- dary Education; Curriculum Problems of bibliography, selected and annotated, adds to the value of the work. S. R. PoWBns
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