New-York tribune., 1907-11-27
Lfferdry Wese's and Criticism.

man the hunter gets in looking at his game"
MT f1nley has a right to be proud of his work
LUZ these photographs are wonderfully perfect
"iiu expressive Of bird character. An excellent
-Pe Is the picture of two young yellow
1nioat prothers quarrelling. facing each other on
the domestic bough, and full of baby anger from
lHe open ollis and glaring eyes to their tiny
c'utchlhg claws There is a pretty coricality in
many OF the groups of winged infants pictured
mere as there is an almost human tenderness in
the photographs illustrating the care taken of
Iher children by the wild little fathers and
mothers. In one bird family, that of a gross
neak' the author found the work of the welded
pair most wisely divided. One day mamma
took upon herself the satisfying of the greedy
babies: the next day papa brought the worms
and the grubs while his wife rested; the third
day mamma went foraging again while papa
amused himself-and on It is interesting TO
note that small birdings get disciplined as well
as small humans. Witness the anecdote of the
baby wren who selfshy insisted on monopoliz-
ing the supplies brought by his father, yelling
and futtering in ecstasy at sight of a particu-
larly nice grub:
But the YOUNGSTERS emphatic appeal failed to
posted the morse the mouth of the less bolster
Gus child o What W o Gn8ng an my t anS
bit and the next saw ii disappear down the throat
ment as his feathers ruffled up in anger and
astonished peep of disgust escaped his throat.
Mr. Finleys text is charming throughout; it
cannot but move his readers to a interest
in the wild life of forest. orchard and garden.
Under the title of 1.-THE Story of American
Painting" Frederick A. Stokes Company Mr.
Charles H. Caffin has published an excellent
popular survey of the development of the art
from its first distinctly English phase in the
rfO nf na
present day. The historical background is
lightly sketched in. and against it the salient
types are drawn with brief but very clear and
instructive touches. The chapters which bring
the narrative down to the present generation arc
necessarily of rather summary character.
great deal OF ground has TO be covered in very
small space. The author nevertheless contrives
TO indicate the main lines of his subject, and to
bring out the traits Of many representative
figures. Numerous full page Illustrations in
halftone enliven the record. Another popular
book treating the same subject. but along more
restricted lines. is Mr.. ]. Walker McSpadden's
Famous Painters of America" CThomas Y.
Crowell & Coz. In this the author confines him
self TO eleven artists, each chosen for some spe-
cial quality Thus Gilbert Stuart is dealt with
as The Painter of Presidents" George Inness
as The Painter of Natures Moods" John Sar-
gent The Painter of Portraits" and so on
MI ~hCSpduQeIlS H6LnOQ Is descriptive aleC-
dotic and entertaining. His Illustrations include
portraits we'll reproductions OF pictures.
"Since the epoch making Centennial Exhibi-
ton at Philadelphia in 1876" says Miss Annie
Wnsor Allen, -pedagogues have been so mag
nifying their Office to bring to the gem
eral impression that education and schooling are
synonymous. AS as we discover some
thing to be educatve that is not In the school
curriculum promptly ask to have it in
cluded there. This setting apart Of so many
interests and making them school studies is CIV
ing acquired air to all knowledge. In
stead OF coming. know not just how. and
growing into our culture. knowledge is put on
consciously at school. Our culture smacks OF
the factory. II sits on like contract made
clothes" Miss Aliens belief that education
should be more personal. less formal and ac-
quired more through home life than II now is
has prompted her TO write book Of suggestions
for parents. In Home. School and Vacation"
Houghton. Miffiin & Coz she tries to "set
forth in orderly form the well established COM
monplaces and essentials of sound educa-
ton"
She has done this with extreme simplicity,
so that any busy mother or governess might
run through the 200 pages of clear, direct ad-
vice in d short time and derive much valuable
information from them. There is indulging
in elaborate analyses of the child mind. no
pompous array of would-be profound pedagogi-
cal theories. A scheme of education. not too
detailed and not too vague, is given; there is
a small mine of sound sense in the chapters
on discipline: and the fundamental principles
that should govern the amusements and sports
Of children are tersely stated To be sure. much
has been omitted that should be generally
known and widely taught. But, considering
the persons for whom the little volume is in
tended, this is no fault at all.
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