Evening star., 1912-09-14
BOOK REVIEWS.

BOOK REVIEWS.
HEALTH AND MEDICAL INSPEC-
TION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. BY
Walter s. Cornell. NJ D.. director or
medical inspection of public SCHOOLS
Philadelphia: lecturer on chlid ny
piene University of Pennsylvania,
etc Philadelphia: +. A. Davis Com
pany.
- - EDICAL inspection OF schools
A has effected more than any
N other single agency in chang
ing the study of physiology
and hygiene from mere aca-
demic statement to practical force. IL
more than any other one influence mas
served to lift bodily health to its pres
ent high place in educational concern.
Moreover. medical inspection has proved
TO be an invaluable co-ordinatinS me-
dunn, binding teachers. physical IN
structors. school nurses and parents into
a common intelligent activity whose end
is the physical well-being of children.
The aim OF this expert inclusive STUDY
is 10 make a practical exposition OF the
work of medical inspection, as this grew
from the examination of about 3oUo
children. and 10 offer to physicians,
teachers and parents a survey of medl-
cal practice as il relates to children OF
school age.
An introductory discussion of the gen.
eral administrative features of this SUD
ject LAYS down a suggestive ana mex
ible plan for the inception of its prac.
licc. This closes with summary OF
the present status OF this prancn oi
school administration in the United
states A study Of school sanitation
and personal hygiene follows. fuH,
practical study. pliable TO meet eNistmS
conditions After this the author ex-
amines the characteristics aad defines
the treatment of the special defects that
SO commonly bar children from vigorous
normal growth. About 200 diagrams.
charts and pictures illustrate one or an
other phase of this work. The whole IS
an authoritative. exhaustive presentation
of the subject in it's present aim and ac-
complishment. In this volume or expert
knowledge, sane judgment ana lnteih-
gent practice, school super1ntendentS,
medical inspectors and teachers Will nno
a rich and reliable text book on suDJect
that stands in sore need of sound expo
sition.
INDIVIDUAL TRAINING IN OUR
COLLEGES. BY Clarence f. Birds
eve New York: The Macmillan
Company. Washington: Woodward
& Lothrop.
A place Is open and waiting for this
student accounting with the college. FROM
official sources there have already been
rendered thousands of reports discussing
the college as a means of preparing men
and women for their share of the world Is
work The study in hand. however. makes
the rare, IL not the single occasion. When
out of this authors Investigations the
student himself is able to tell now the
essential matter of individual training
looks from where he stands. 1t is, In ad-
dition, business appraisement of the
quality and extent of individual training
given by colleges in relation to their cost
and elaboration of process. Moreover. the
study contrasts the college of the present
with that of the past, and likewise ar
raigns 1t, for it's loosened grip on the
person i'm its absorption of the mass. In
astonishing detail leading out into gen.
eral drifts and effects three of the four
parts of this investigation gather up col
lege conditions from the standpoint of
the student himself. This comprehensive
study falls into periods-the .'ecclesiasti-
cal' period of our colleges. the great uni
versity- building period, and that in which
the students, through fraternities. gath
cred themselves into community iife fhe
fourth part is orderly constructive
plan TO rescue the individual in college
life from the lump. 1t is both propa Uganda
and appeal. addressed to faculties
alumni. parents. the whole interested
public. In it's intent this study is most
opportu tune. In it's content II is a remark
able array of facts-pertinent. tested,
well ordered. and pointed directly to the
purposes of an educational campaign for
THE NEW HISTORY. BY James
Harvey Robinson, professor of his
tory in Columbia University. New
L..
These lectures. half dozen or more,
come together in this volume through the
common intent to build dividing line in
history. line setting off the old from the
new. On the far side of this barrier his
tory stretches from the earliest accounts
up to the middle of the last century. On
the near side ii is a short and revolution
airy period, only about sixty years in
length. Over there history is narrative,
a kind OF literature. Here il is much like
an exact science in outlook AVID method.
The agents of this revolution of this new
fronting upon history, are biology, archie
ology psychology SOCIOLOGICAL under the
rationalizing control of evolution. This
fact. not new. but newly organized and
applied with fresh directness and force.
is of immense Importance to the makers
of history. to it's teachers. its readers and
interpreters. One of these essays, His
tory for the-Common Man." should be
drawn off and put into general use by
teachers of industrial education. The
whole is an admirably vigorous right
about-face on the inclusive subject Of the
worlds history.
MARY PECHELI. BY Mrs. Belloc
Lowndes. author Of Jane Oglander."
etc. New York: Charles Scribner's
Sons. Washington: Brentanos
Mrs. Lowndes tells a good story. one
that sets out for some place on some er-
rand. However often she may lead into
unfamiliar byways. dipping into secret
valleys and cutting across strange fields,
the suspicion never rises that sfe has
forgotten the journey end or that she
has lost her way. Her people. too. are
of the understandable sort. not so sep
srate from the common run of folks as
TO he alien, and yet possessing gifts and
graces of quality 10 win absorbed in
terest. The Mary Pechell of this good
English story is highly intelligent
wholesome, modern girl, with a serious
work TO do. and doing IL. One OF her
NEW pIIRITCATTONC