Professor Averill is well known to the readers of EDUCATION, as he has been a frequent contributor to our pages. He has done a real service to the cause of teaching by giving to the world this book,-which has grown directly out of his daily classroom work with Normal School pupils. The distinguishing characteristic of these chapters is that they avoid the technical and abstruse details of psychology and present the great principles of teaching in a manner which, while truly scientific and accurate, is yet simple, clear and within the comprehension of young candidates for teaching positions. It requires special abilities and experience to treat as deep and large a subject as this with simplicity and directness, without loss of depth and comprehensiveness. Professor Averill has such ability and experience, and Normal School pupils and young teachers actually at work will find this volume a real help and inspiration. In his "foreword" he says: "In a very special sense Normal School psychology must be highly practical, highly workable, and highly understandable. There is no time in our two-year courses for laboratory experimentation, much as we ought to have it, nor for going into theoretical or controversial territory. What we need and must have is a psychology stripped naked of all needless technicalities, disentwined from all irrelevant supposition and theorizing, and articulated as closely as possible with the schoolroom situation." This need is supplied in Professor Averill's volume. He has worked it out in the schoolroom, with his young teacher-training pupils. He has had the opportunity to study their needs, and watch their development and follow them in their practical experiences in the schools, after graduation. And his presentation of principles has been justified by all this experience and observation. At the close of each chapter there are topics for special study and report, applications of the special lessons treated, and selected references to the writings of others upon the subjects included. The publishers have lived up to their best traditions in the work, in the matter of printing, binding, etc., making this one of the notable educational books of the year. EASTERN STORIES AND LEGENDS. By Marie L. Shedlock. E. P. Dutton & Company. Price $2.00. Reaching back into the centuries for some two thousand years is going far to find treasures of human thought, learning and aspiration. Miss Shedlock has "rummaged" to good purpose and has brought forth some "finds" that will interest and profit the young reader. In a way these old stories prove that the world and the race are essentially the same in all ages. The author is a lover of children. She knows that in their imaginations is to be found a sympathetic comprehension of the tales that were told when the race was young. 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