The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1898-03-25
NEW BOOKS.

Samuel w. Cole is book for teach
ers who wish to teach q child Music
instead of teaching them to play a
tune. There is quite as much progress
in the teaching of music as in any
other line of teaching. In this attrac-
tive little book the kindergarten sys-
tenn is followed and the children gain
an entrance into the promised land of
song through individual effort.
It is lack of the natural, or kinde-
garten, method in teaching music that
has caused the failure of SO large
percentage of our public school chill
dren to become conscious of any mu-
sical ability, until too late in life.
A few of the good points claimed
for these studies are, music designed
for those whose powers are entirely
undeveloped; the introduction of one
or two tonal problems at time, and
an eff ort to correlate music with ma
ture study and reading.
''The Childs First Studies in Music"
by Samuel w. Cole. Price 60 cents
Silver Burdette & Co. Boston: Mass.
"My Summer in a GARDEN, by
Charles Dudley Warner, is one of
those books which like the early clover
is new every spring. In preparing for
the heated season the summer books
are an important matter, and we know
of nothing that so fits the soft langor-
GUS days as does this little volume of
Warmers. Its quaint humor is per-
fectly entrancing, and ones only re-
geet about his "Summer in a Garden"
is that it is so short. Such book
does much to bring us into communion
with nature. It makes one feel that
when the warm spring sunshine calls
to mother earth, to bring forth the
children she has hidden in her bosom
all winter, one must get out and dig
and loosen up the soil, that the soft
green things may come forth to beau
tify, and bless humanity. The world
is better because q man with so great
an intellect as Warner has written of
the homely things SO near and so dear
to all of us. In making up your list
of books for the summer, do not fail
tn have "My Summer in a Garden"
Houghton, Mitflin & Co., Boston,
Mass. Cloth S1.OO.
We received from Ainsworth & Co.
a dainty little classic, "Selections from
Plato,'' "The Apology and 1.-THE
Phado.'' 1t is from the translation
by Taylor, with all introduction and
notes by H. T. Nightengale, of Chica-
go. With the flood of poor literature
which we have to-day, it is comfort
to turn to Greece in her first glorious
period and CLEAN of her wisdom from
it's fountain head, the philosophy of
Plato, and his teacher and master,
Socrates. This philosophy, though
given to the world 5OJ hundred years
before Christ, stands to day as truth,
and no greater incentive can be given
youth to live pure life than the
history of the early Grecian philosoph-
ers. If the classics were put into the
hands of the youth of our land, there
would be fewer lives wrecked by
vicious books.
Selections From Plato"; 1.-THE
Apology and ''The Phado'', Aims
worth Y Co., Chicago. Price, 48c.
"Heilbroun or Drops From the
Fountain of Health, by Fanny M. Har-
ley is certainly good food for the soul.
1t gives practical help about many
things we unconsciously puzzle over
in cropping for a ray of light. This
book lets in whole food of joyous
light at once, and we wonder why we
have striven SO long without the un-
derstanding the book gives of life and
its meaning, The German Mystic"
Jacob Boeheme, says ''By the activity
of the word, the sleeping germs of
everything are awakened into life''
and this is the keynote of this wonder
fully helpful book. It throws q sweet
er atmosphere over many of the COM
experiences of life, and those
are the things We need help for.
'.Heilbroun", by Fanny M. Harley,
81 Washington ST., Chicago. Price, |
leatherette bound, Soc.
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