Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-13
BOOK TABLE.
POCKET ATLAS-SONG ANO LYRIC
LABOR PROBLEM.
Santa Barbara Science of Educa-
tion-Saiior Lads-Walker's
Folly-Democracy.

From a. L. Bancroft & Co., San Francisco,
we have the very latest conceit in the art
of book-making. 1t takes the form of a
pocket volume. issued by G. P. Putnam s
Sons, New York and London, and pre-
pared by John Bartholomew, F. R. G. s.,
entitled The Pocket Atlas of the World"
1t is comprehensive and popular series
of colored maps illustrative of physical
and political geography. The maps are
fifty-four in number, and they embrace
fats also of the chief cities of the world.
None OF the maps exceed four by five
inches. which dimensions cover two pages
of the compact little volume. There are
maps of the ocean currents, of astronomi-
cal geography, and many statistical
tables of distribution of products used in
manufacture, routes of travel, armies and
navies, population, areas of countries,
rivers and mountains, etc. 1t is a useful,
novel and most convenient book upon a
practical science.
Contributions to the Science of Educa-
ton is the title of an octave volume of
$50 pages, published by Harper & Bros,
New York, and for sale by A L. Bancroft
& Co., San Francisco. 1t is devoted exclu.
siyely to the scientific phase of educational
study, and is very thorough and exhaust
i've treatise of what, in modern thought,
has become the most important question
in education-its relation to and classical
zion among sciences. 1t is from the pen
of VIM. II. Payne, Professor Of the science
and the art of teaching in the University
of Michigan. We can scarcely expect it.
but sincerely hope that the book may be
read by all teachers. Certainly those de-
voted TO their high office will be vastly
benefited by it. While we have been able
to this writing to peruse but half
the chapters, we are satisfied
that we can give our friends, the educators of
the day, no better advice than to read care
fully and deliberately this admirable
treatise. We shall certainly practice our
preaching and complete the book, for in
one respect, more than any other, has Pro-
fessor Payne awakened our attention and
commanded our interest-he has ventured
to take issue with Mr.. Spencer in his theo-
Eetical and broad generalizations concerning
education, and has shown that in practical
application Mr. Spencer formulas as work
ing rules are impracticable For Professor
Payne is practical teacher, of many years
hard experience, and has tested in person
and by observation nearly all the theories
extant, and while pronouncing Spencer's
" Education the most thoughtful
and fruitful book since Rous-
seau's Emile he does not
hesitate to call his doctrines into question
where practice has given rebuke to his
theory. As a simple instance, he points
the error of MIR. Spencer in testing the
worth of knowledge solely by the practical
har ha 40 of ; hot &c
nowhere favors liberal education that is
catholic and humane, or that is to be ad-
ministered on the hypothesis that the
childs humanity takes precedence of his
functions as an instrument" In this ar
Taignment of the great thinker Professor
Payne runs counter to the present thought
regarding industrial education, he claiming
that school instruction is being by modern
disposition In some quarters converted
into an apprenticeship to a trade, as though
the prime purpose of education were to
fit pupils some for carpenters, some
FOR shoemaking, others for farming" etc
Still We do not understand him as at all
opposed TO industrial training as an educa-
don, but while he condemns the tendency
to treat pupils as destined for scholarly
FOcations, he likewise objects to the
tendency to treat them as mere machines
for money-making or the gaining of a
livelihood As he puts it The major eff
fort of the school should be directed to
the training of men and women, and not
OF laborers. artisans, ETC.; but at the same
time the fact that these men and women
must become bread-winners should not be
lost sight Of" Again, he holds that there
g some danger that the higher we 90 in
scholastic organization the schools may be
allowed to drift away from the people, and
hence the widespread feeling that the high
school does not sufficiently respond to
popular needs Yet Professor PAYNE very
emphatically declines to be quoted as
svmpathizing with the periodical attacks
made by demagogues on the high school.
That is, as we understand him, the high
school itself is the right thing, the danger
lies alone in its administration by the
literary class with only the end in view
that the pupils are TO be professional
scholars"
The much-debated labor question has
brought 10 the book world The Labor
Problem-Plain Questions and Practical
Answers, q small octave, edited by VIM.
Il. Barns. with an introduction by Richard
T. Ely, Phi. D., and special contributions
by James A. Waterworth and Fred Wood
row. The greater part of the matter be-
tween these covers appeared originally in
the columns of The Age Of Steel, st.
Louis journal. The central thought and
General current Of the book favors profit
Sharing" as the best of all RENE
dies for the labor troubles. The
articles are from journalists, states
men. mechanics, clergymen, authors,
educators, political economists, labor COM
missioners, worklngmen, and manu1actur-
ers. The papers are all answers to five
questions regarding strikes and lockouts,
Oh
Dership. and productive cooperation. For
variety of views and plain speaking the
collection is a model. Published by Harper
& Bros. New York and for sale by a. l..
Bancroft & Co. San Francisco.
From Macmillan & Co., London and New
YORK we have another volume of the
- Globe Readings" series. The selections
,,f his series are all from standard authors.
The present volume is entitled The
Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and
Iy,r;cal Poems in the English Language"
They have been selected arranged and
annotated by Francis Turner Palgraye,
Professor of Poetry in the University OF
Oxford. 1t differs from most collections OF
this order, in that 1t includes the best org
inoI lyrical pieces and songs IN our Ian
f-,,age nv writers not living, bnd none but
fhe hest 1t thus happens that some of the
most familiar lines appear, and others that
sbonld he, but are not, familiar to the gen
eral readers. The editor has excluded
blank verse and ten-syllable couplets, and
ali pieces markedly dramatic, as foreign to
the idea of song and as rarely conforming
10 lyrical conditions in treatment. The
book is an octave, of 345 pages.
santa Barbara and Around There is
\ pocket volume, by Edward Roberts, de-
ecrinfiye of the scenery, climate, curiosi-
s;as homes and products of that section of
s s1v California. 1t is freely illustrated
Sy Fl G. Ford, and warmly complimentary
~ santa Barbara. 1t is by the aid of such
literature as this that southern California
has had drawn to it so much of attention,
resulting resi- in such profit to the region; This
neat little book is published by Roberts
Bros, and sells at 70 cents
Democracy, by Jonathan Norcr1oss, is
a history of Democracy CONSIDERED as a
. - political organization,