# Labour and Childhood/end matter

BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
EARLY CHILDHOOD
WITH FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS.
Crown 8vo, cloth. 3s. 6d.
SECOND EDITION.
"This book is evidently the outcome of much thought, careful observation, and genuine interest in the subject of childhood, which has made both thought and observation fruitful of good. Such a book is a real boon, and cannot fail to do good."—Spectator.
"The author has, we believe, had much personal contact with childlife and child-nature in Bradford, and all her remarks give evidence of practical knowledge. Above all, she overflows with fellow-feeling for the child."—The Literary World.
"The chapters on moral training and fatigue are specially worthy of of notice."—Guardian.
"An intelligent and sympathetic study of primary education, and discusses such subjects as the aim of manual training of young children, the cost of mental efforts, proper literature for the young, the nature of fatigue—normal and abnormal, and the care of the feeble-minded child. It is well informed as to its facts and enlightened and suggestive in its deductions from them."—Scotsman.
"Her book will appeal more directly, we think, to parents, and teachers in infant schools and kindergarten. The subject of education is regarded from a physiological point of view. The writer's knowledge of public elementary education enables her to write with considerable authority."—School World.
’It is the outcome of close observation and a sympathetic mind, and we gladly commend it to mothers and impressionist teachers and tenders of children."—Educational Review.
Education through the Imagination.
With Illustrations. Crown 8vo, 3s. 6d.
"A book which will doubtless receive more than, passing notice from all who are concerned with the teaching of children. The creative energy of all children is so important a factor in their lives that it should be carefully developed, and Miss McMillan, after defining what creative energy is, endeavours to indicate the various forms in which it finds its manifestations at the earlier periods of life, and to determine its place and function in primary education."—Dundee Advertiser.
"Miss McMillan discourses interestingly on the training of the young, explaining the importance of imagination in every sphere of life, and urging that this fact be more clearly recognized by teachers in elementary schools."—Notts. Guardian.
"Those who have had the pleasure and benefit to be derived from attending a course of lectures given by Miss McMillan will hail with delight the appearance of this book. To those who have neither heard her lecture nor read any of her other works on education, the present volume will give some strong food for thought, and will, it is to be hoped, afford a stimulant to action. It abounds with practical hints and suggestions, is well illustrated, and forms a companion volume to an earlier work by the same author on 'Early Childhood.'"—Labour Leader.
"A book which should do much to correct the deadly method of teaching which is turning out the dull, open-mouthed beings we see in such numbers about us. The extreme importance of the imagination, and the extreme importance of the general recognition of it, is what Miss McMillan insists on and proves elaborately."—Bookman.
"This book is a real contribution to the study of this great question, and worthy to rank with the work of Froebel, Herbart, and Spencer upon the same problems."—Westminster Review.
"A valuable contribution to the psychology of education well worth the reading."—Teachers' Aid.
"The book of an enthusiast, Miss McMillan holds that the imagination, which should be the most potent instrument in education, has been atrophied by the educational methods that have prevailed."—Literary World.
"Miss McMillan's book abounds with interesting reflections, observations, and references. It is inspired with a fine enthusiasm for necessary reforms in education, and it presses home the need of giving scope to the child's individuality. A book of this kind is worth the writing and reading, for only out of such attempts will the perfected education of the future emerge."—G. Spiller in Ethics.
"This small volume is full of interest. The author tries to prove that all children, properly fed and not bullied or drilled too much, are inventive; that in drawing, construction, colouring, reading, and experimenting, they need more humane treatment and less teaching; and all teachers are slowly coming round to this, that the child must observe and think rather than repeat."—Educational Record.
"This is a perfectly delightful book, a fact which its genesis explains. The author has a first-hand knowledge of children, being obviously possessed of constant and extensive opportunities for observing them. The author has acquainted herself at first-hand with all the best that has been written by the masters of pedagogy."—Academy.
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