The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1894-11-13
new PUBLICATIONS.

u"y ,oCHOol OnlOD' (PhlIaQelphla). The
work is by Professor Fletcher Durrell.
Ph. d., tPrinceton) of Dickinson College,
we quote part of criticism of the work
by an Eastern educator, who has indi-
Gated the thought of the book in these
| WORDS: 1T deals in scientific yet pop
ular way with the methods of education
needed 10 prepare young people for the
twentieth century, in which their best
working years VIII be passed. we live
IN a new world Is common saying. The
teacher becomes more important as life
becomes complex. Children indeed are
always educated by their surroundings.
1nere Is no little savage who does not get
some kind of education by the very tact
that he IS alive and grows, having nature
and people about MIN. But professional
teaching according to ascertained laws of
mind IS product OF civilization. The
old system of training by apprentices has
given way TO the technical school. Teach
erS have improved. The graduate courses
| IN college have opened large oppOrtunl-
! ties for study. Summer schools give the
! busy instructor an opportunity to extend
! his knowledge by listening 10 famous
/ specialists. Communication has brought
| peopIe.near together. Production has been
| immensely increased by improved ma
! chlnery. Each man on the average, the
| world over, has two slaves Of steam work
! ing for him. The new education has its
defects. 1t brings scholars to a higher
| average; but great minds do not seem to
| emerge. Is this the fault of the system OF
| education? Only IN limited measure.
| Great minds come only occasionally in
/ the centuries. They are law unto tbem-
| selves and may assimilate what they need
under any system. Christian education
aims to develop all that is good, and put
! Christ into the thought and action Of the
world. But the elastic mind Will eX-
| pand. 1t needs extent of magnitude aud
it needs diversity
! A book that is the birth of experience
and not of fancy and mere theory is
How j Ohm and l Brought L p the Child, -
| by Elizabeth Grinnell. 1t is from the
press of the American Sunday-School
| Union, Philadelphia, and is its 500 prize
| book. Mrs. Grinnell is Il resident OF
! Pasadena, Cal, and her competitors for
the prize offered were some Of the first
educators OF the day, East or West. The
! first prize went to Professor Durrell OF
! Dickinson College for his "a New Life
! in Education" The fund out of which
these two prizes are paid was founded by
John &. Green of Kentucky in 1877. The
work before us deals with large number
OF problems which come TO every mother.
| The baby has its experience with ''sooth-
ing syrup" 1t is allowed to look into q
mirror before it is year old, and fright
ems the mother. The father sees no con-
nection between baby's looking into the
glass and its dying. This baby is not
tantaliZed and leased, as, alas so many
little ones are. He is not told that his
nose is out of joint" when baby number
/ two comes. The temptations TO small
gambling, playing marbles for keeps, ,
ETC., are met. The boy has his little bank,
and his OWE money to spend and give
| He is allowed to work out the hobbies
which every healthy boy has-collecting
| postage stamps, snakes ana bugs, build
/ ing toy engines, littering the house with
| chips and tools, ana causing the mother
/ to think that he will become distinguished
as an engineer, naturalist, poet and the
| like. Finally the lad comes up into
| young manhood, correct in principles
! vigorous in body, a comfort to his parents
such man in the main as you wish
| your son to become. As contrast to
| this wise family training we find por-
! trayed the experiences of another home.
wherein a lively lad named Tom ex-
| emplitieS manifold wrong results of
! education; but in spite of these draw
backs he also has his heritage, and there
| is shown to be hope for Tom and the
many children like him.
''Tennyson, His Art and Relation to
! Modern Life" by Spotford ~ Brooke.
NJ. A. Press Of q. Z. Putnam's Sons
New York. This is a large octave of
handsome print and generally superior
| appearance. MIR. Brooke has demon
| Strated his capacity i'll this ANALYSIS of
| the works of Iennyson to Judge critically
| and fearlessly and with perfect fairness
| so far as impartiatity is possible to human
| nature. He first considers the poet as an
artist, his characteristic of shaping the
| beauty which he saw in nature and
| humanity, his remarkable simplicity of
method In such work, and his lofty disre-
! gard OF effect IN face Of the demand of his
soul for the truth. Next, Tennyson is
considered in his relation to Christianity.
He finds in his poetry no doctrinal con-
! tession, but that larger Christianity
which is incapable of definition
He held Jesus to be a great pro-
| claimer of truths; one who concentrated
| into Himself the religious truths which
| before Him had been in man, reformed
them in His own thought, and issued
them with new power and charged with
new love to claim the belief of men y
| Tennyson's relation to social politics
! lastly concern him. His patriotism. his
! idea of human freedom, his views of
| what constitutes progress, his mistakes
relative to war as remedy, etc., are all
| discussed with emphasis ana not without
sharp criticism of the great poet at times.
| but in a spirit that is of high credit to tba
| critic, and is i'll admiration for the genius
of the subject. The concluding lines of
the elaborate review and analysis will as
| suredly be realized, for the perusal of this
book upon Tennyson and his works ''wjJI
make men love him, love him more. and
| those who do not yet love him find that
| constant pleasure"
"Oliver Cromwell, a History.n ia the
title of large volume from the press of
| q. =. Putnam's Sons, New York. If ia
by Samuel Harden Church. 1t is freely
supplied with maps and plates, and
| opens with portrait of the Protector
| from the canvas of Sir Peter LEW Q653l
MIR. Church devoted six years to the
| study of his subject and the exploration
of the vast quantity of records of the
| English nation relating to Cromwell and
his times. AS result he has given us
the best exposition Of CromwelPs career
| that 1t has been our fortune to examine
So far as time has permitted, our exam
| iuation leads US to conclude that the
! author occupied the judicial attitude. as
the true historian should, and has pro-
duced work absolutely free from bias.
| Both Charles and Cromwell have re
ceived fair treatment in this work, Ont
side of the general histories we have
| never had complete and satisfactory
! life of Cromwell more than IN narrative
| This work fills want because it is not
! only narrative but analysis, and leads
the reader to correct understanding of
| the character of Cromwell and of his re-
markable career. If there is any color in
| the work it may be said to be of a Puri-
| tan cast. but we DO not find that this has
| blinded the author to the obligation to be
accurate and judicial and to present both
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hONEY!
| Nou1 Wnito Sara uonoU