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Boys Clubs, Charles Bernheimer and
J. NJ. Cohen.
Intended to be a practical guide
book for the club leader but is of in
crest to all who are engaged in work
With boys. Among the subjects dis
,ussed are The Boy and the Gang;
Problems of Internal Management;
How to Hold the Club Together; So
eial and Literary Features. There is
list of subjects for debate, declama
tons, plays, a simple constitution,
adapted to the ordinary club, and a
guide. From the chapter
devoted to girls clubs we quote the fol
lowing to show why, as a rule, the
work accomplished by girls clubs does
not come up to the standard of boys
clubs. Mr.. Puffer in his book, The
Boy and His Gang, says: "Girls do not
form gangs. They belong to sets, and
sets and gangs are quite different in
situations. The set is exclusive, nm
democratic. It has no organization,
leaders, history. The set snubs its
rivals; the gang fights them. =
A Handbook of Practice for Teachers,
Charles McMurray.
Really a handbook of maxims for
the teacher, prepared by one of the
noted educators of the day; Is of great
value to the young teacher as it solves
the many problems arising every day
in the schoolroom
Half Hours, James Barrie.
Four entertaining one-act plays on a
variety of subjects. Pantaloon, 'tthe
private home of Pantaloon and Column
bine, though whether they ever did
have a private home is uncertain.
The Underground Look, the superior
husband-very rich-who has won sue
cess and GOWNS his wife; Rosalind,
a conceit woven from Shakespeare S
Merry Wives of Windsor and Barrie S
Imagination; The Will, shows the
| tragic result of greed for wealth on
the lives and characters of a bright
young fellow and his pretty, charming
wife.
Field Book of American Trees and
Shrubs, P Schuyler Mathews.
A concise description of the eharac
ter and color of species common
throughout the United States together
with maps showing their general dis
tribution. Is a companion volume t
his Field Book of American Wild
Flowers, and the same general arrange
ment is followed, a page of text with
full page illustration opposite. Man.
of the illustrations are colored whic
is a help in Identification. There ar
illustrated keys for the identification
of trees by their bark and for shrub
by their leaves. The system of nomer
clature followed is that of Eneler an
Frantic, and the scientific names cor
, form to the Vienna Code, the intern5
tional standard.
The Next Generation, Frances Guile
Jewett.
This book gives the basic principle
!, of heredity, and evolution, cell deve
! opment, growth, adolescence and e.
: genics in clear and interesting wa,
Perhaps the most interesting chapte
is the last, The Final Step or Race r.
generation (the right of children to
; we'll born), in which the author say:
: "The history of the human race doc
: indeed make it plain that worth
q line of ancestry is more to be desire
: than gold or lands, or worldly positic
n of any sort.
. Monologues, Beatrice HEREFORD.
= This volume is illustrated by Div
{ HEREFORD and includes A Social Scar
!, stress, The Bazaar, A Lady Packin
u Piazza Ladies, The Country Store,
I Professional Boarder. The monologu
= appeared in the Ladies Home Journ;
81 1903,
The Talking Woman and other Mon
logues, May Isabel Fiske.
u Clever monologues include amor
Q others The Saleslady, Entertaining t
Neighbor 5 Child, The Boarding -hou
Keeper, The Health Resort.
- The Man of Iron, Richard Dehanpser
nj A story of the Franco-Prussian W
~ which p;Sp,ornt, e +ba cautraI