A GRADED COURSE OF GEOGRAPHY. Book I., First Year. By E. S. PRICE. 9¼ × 7¼, 63 pp. Philip.

Books of this type will be constantly more in demand as auto-educational methods come into force. The author has systematically analysed geography into "answers to questions," the questions being all that the books contain, the pupil being left to find the answers with the assistance of globe, maps, text-books, and last, but not least, of the teacher. In the treatment of the first year, on South America, emphasis is laid upon relief, climate, and vegetation. In the second year Australia and Africa will be considered, including "land forms and the sculpturing agents"; after that, with North America and

the British isles, the pupils' attention will be directed to industries and trade.

London, W.C.2 (price, by post, 2d.)

A scheme for assisting in the education of the children of ex-Service men and women has been drawn up by the United Services Fund after consultation with representatives of the Board of Education and the Scottish Education Department. The cardinal principle is to give the child of promise who at present is denied equality of opportunity owing to the financial circumstances of the parents or guardians, a fair chance in education, so that not only the child, but the nation as a whole, will ultimately benefit. Only children who can be certified as possessing special qualifications can be helped under the scheme. Full particulars can be obtained from the Organizing Secretary, Services Fund, 29, Cromwell-road, S.W.4.

From
The Vice Chancellor,
The University, Leeds.

14th June, 1921

Dear Madam,

On behalf of the Department of Education in the
University of Leeds, I write to ask if it would be possible for you,
during your visit to England, to do us the honour of paying a visit
to the University, and of addressing the students and the public on
the subject of self-education in America.

We shall be delighted if you are able to come and to
address us on this very important subject.

At present, owing to the coal strike, the train service
is bad, but I hope that in the course of another fortnight the normal
service may be nearly restored.

We should feel it a privilege to give you hospitality
for the night of your visit to the University and to ask you to
accept first class travelling expenses from London.

If you would care to see other educational institutions
in the West Riding of Yorkshire, I should be happy to do my best
to arrange this for you.

Believe me,

THE TEACHERS' GUILD.

A LECTURE

ON

An American Development of
Self-Education

WILL BE GIVEN BY

Miss HELEN PARKHURST

Director of The Child Education Foundation, New York

AT

9 BRUNSWICK SQUARE, W.C.1

ON

Tuesday, July 5th, at 8 p.m.

Chairman: Dr. P. B. BALLARD, M.A.

Members of the Guild admitted free.

Tickets (1-, and a few reserved seats at 2/6) may be
obtained by non-members on application to—

The General Secretary,
The Teachers' Guild,
9 Brunswick Square, W.C.1.

INCORPORATED ASSOCIATION OF ASSISTANT MISTRESSES IN
SECONDARY SCHOOLS (LONDON BRANCH).

The next Meeting will be held on Thursday, June 30th, 1921, at St. Mary's College, 34, Lancaster Gate, W. 2. by kind permission of Miss Powell,

5.15 p.m. TEA.

5.45 p.m. Miss PARKHURST will give an Address on

"Education Without Time-tables."

School correspondents are asked to let Miss M. Baker (St. Mary's College, 34, Lancaster Gate, W. 2), know, not later than Monday, June 27th, the number who expect to be present.

St. Mary's College is close to Christ Church, Lancaster Gate. It is between Queen's Road Station and Lancaster Gate Station on the Central London Railway. Omnibuses 12, 17, 32, 88 pass very near.

A. M. PERRY,

Hon. Secretary.

9, STEELE'S ROAD,
N.W. 3.

Childrens University School

10 West 72nd Street
New York

EDUCATIONAL DIRECTOR
HELEN PARKHURST

September 15, 1921.

Mrs. W. Murray Crane,
Penzance Point,
Woods Hole, Mass.

My dear Mrs. Crane:

Thanks for yours of yesterday. Mr. E. W. Underwood, my cousin, and I have gone over the situation and not later than Wednesday of next week he will write you definitely.

He is going into the matter of the financial condition of the school very carefully and the slight delay is due to the fact that his father, Mr. F. D. Underwood, President of the Erie, is out of the city. We wish further advice from him, as the final decision regarding financial support depends upon our conversation with him when he arrives on Tuesday of next week.

The problem of the school is a serious one because the vital thing to us seems to be whether or not there is going to be a place which he represents the Dalton Plan or not. If there is to be a place it means that I must stick to this school.

The Underwoods' idea is that I take over the school, leaving the financial management to them in order that I be free to care for the educational end. If the school is run as it should be it can not possibly support itself within three years. After that time there should be a little more than my salary for my attention to the idea and work in the school. The advice of parents and Parent Committee are greatly desirable, but the school does need capital and the feeling I have is that it may be run from year to year without any capital, which may be disastrous to the idea, and that I will not have the same feeling of responsibility if I felt that I was working upon something which would eventually rightfully be in a sense mine. The school would be incorporated and plans made for its future.

The taking over of the building is a good idea, but one year under proper management with some capital would be a test as to whether this is the right situation. I feel that one year beginning now under other than private management may mean ekeing out an existence for the school but it will not mean that the idea

Childrens University School

10 West 72nd Street
New York

Mrs. W. Murray Crane

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September 15, 1921

is accepted by a clientele which will further its development. Of
course it is necessary for me to have a salary. I would have that
any where, but the vital thing to me is whether or not the idea is
carried out as you and I believe it should be.

This is a serious move for me, and personally I would
not think of it, nor could I take it without the financial backing
of Mr. F. D. Underwood. If I do not take over the school in all
probability I will go to England after this year, at least I will
not remain in New York. If I do take over the school it means I
will stick to it for the next ten or twelve years. That period of
ten or twelve years is my serious concern because they are my best
years for work.

If I did take over the school of course the Parent
Committees would be kept just as they are now, but kept in order
that the *ideal* might be forwarded not that the school might be
financed, because financial backing from parents is apt to be a
thing which goes from year to year.

Alice Underwood, Mr. F. D. Underwood's grand-daughter,
who is sixteen has been in the school one year, and her improvement
under the Plan is so very marked that in addition to any interest
which her father or grandfather might have had in me, their service
is one to the idea rather than a personal thing.

I do not feel that the parents would really take over
the building unless they could get it at a very good bargain, and
then as a property investment. I feel that the need to look to my
own future is a determining factor in my continuance with the the
idea in New York.

Marion

Mass

July 8

My Dearest Mrs Crane,

You see we came to Marion after all. And it is really
the loveliest little place in the world for me. I am feeling very lonely just
at present as my husband went back to Washington yesterday after spending 10
days here and more time with me than he has for years! But Paul leaves one
no time alone from the moment he opens his eyes till he closes them. He takes
only too readily to the water. Already he has learned to dive, and it is a lab-
our to get him out from bathing. He has a rowing-boat and one cant keep him out
of it. He has a room to himself here, and he gets up when he wakes and goes to
this beloved boat and when it is calm, rows himself up the Bay. It is all
good for him but I wonder how good it is for me as I suffer agonies of appre-
hension!

I think I am a good deal better of the two weeks here but I am still
lame and still suffer a good deal. But such air as this is and nothing to do
and practically no worries ought to cure anyone!

I wonder if Floie told you about a quite remarkable young British officer
we saw something of before she went away. His name is Haskard and he has been
very badly wounded - one eye shot away and the side of his face. He has had the
cheek remade and wears a patch over the eye and he is so nice looking to start
with that one really don't notice it. Why I am telling you about him is that
I am enclosing copies of a Childs Creed and some remarks he wrote for his wife
in answer to a letter in which she told him she was teaching the children their
catechism. They are very young children - 6 and 4 I think - but I am sure you will

be as interested as I was. I got Paul to take it all in by making him dic-
tate to me from Captain Haskard's letter while I made the copy for you. I am
not very good at moral precepts as such and havent done much for Paul in that
way but I was very glad to get this into him in just that way. Of course he
has an adoration for all officers especially wounded ones so the whole thing
made a real impression.

I have a long letter from Cptn H., which I havent yet had time to
think about, developing the subject. I had asked him how he would inculcate
courage. I will send you that later if you want to see it. I think the whole
thing is interesting as coming from a man who has been a soldier all his life
and who has fought every day of this war till he got his wound only a few months
ago.

I have no news for you. Arthur wouldnt look further than the head-
lines when he was here but he dreaded to see them as he felt the Huns were
surely preparing some new and awful thrust. Which may come at any moment. And
Floie says the Willerts are optimists!

I have looked you up in the map and you are so far away I
might almost as well be in Washington. What a country !

I hope you are all well and happy. I wish you could come here
for a while - there seem to be lots of cottages empty now.

I suppose you have read "Mid-Europe" by F. Naumann? It interested me
enormously. Paul and I are reading Westward Ho! with great joy when we have
any time for reading! He has one hour a day with a most excellent titer here
called Delano - Latin and arithmetic.

Best love to you

yours ever

A CHILDS CREED

These things do I believe:

That I am one of God's little children, that he made me just as he made
this wonderful world in which I live and everything that is in it. For this
I must be thankful at all times and in all places but especially when I go
to bed at night and give thanks to this great and wonderful God going down
on my knees to do so.

And only before his mighty presence must I kneel and worship and there
is only one God who with our Saviour Jesus Christ are one.

It was on a Sunday that God had finished this great and wonderful world
he then rested and was happy and ordered us his little children that every
seven days on Sunday we should do likewise and give thanks unto Him for all
the blessings of this life; for having made us, for keeping us well and
happy and that he did give us such a good and loving Mummy, whom we love so
dearly and who also loves us. He has asked Mummy to look after us and tell
us what to do so we must always listen and do all she tells us immediately.
And if I wish to know the reason why she will tell me after I have done it.
I must also remember that I am a little gentleman or a lady and that there
are therefore certain things which I cannot do : -

Take things which don't belong to me
Say things which are not true
Have dirty hands or face
That I must not be greedy

And when I sleep at night Jesus who so loves me keeps guard over me and sees
that I come to no harm and if through the day I have not been good then I
make him very sad.

Not one day must pass without my having tried to do some good act for some
one else and without expecting any reward for having done so

TE my darling children

Almighty God that made the world and Heaven and all that is in them - to him
nothing is impossible - He knows everything we do and say and think. We have
only to look round us and see all the beautiful things that He has made, and
the mountains, rivers, seas, the trees, flowers, sun and the stars and
know what a wonderful God He is.

This great God that made us little children has sent us to spend our present
life in this world which is nothing but a great big school. These are some of
the things that He wishes us to learn while we are here - devotion, that I must
look to my Mummie and Daddy and they will tell me all the things that I should
do. They have been given by God to teach me. My love for them and their love for
me is such that they would both protect me from any harm, even dying willingly
in doing so. But even so God's love for me is even greater than this. Since my
parents and my maker God are prepared to do so much for me, I must my thanks
to them by doing all that they tell me. If I wish to know the reason for any-
thing, they will tell me, but first may I do it.

Unslefishness. As I grow bigger I must always take pride in carrying
out the wishes of my parents even before they ask me. To be able to do so I must
use my little head and think but not so much about what I would like to do but
what act would please my parents. Certainly never should a day pass without my
having specially tried to do some good act for some one else not for any reward
but just to please them.

Honesty. As I am born of gentle parents these are the signs of a
person of gentle birth and bearing. Cleanliness, honesty and truthfulness,
chivalry towards all women, self-control, courage and patriotism to my
Father-land, to be couteous to all, discipline, willingly and cheerfully &
carry out the orders of those placed temporarily above me. God wishes us to look
on him as our Heavenly Father and Mother, We can take all our troubles to him
and he will show us sympathy and comfort. When happy and contented we may

likewise remember that we owe it all to him. If we do not ~~sala~~ realise that all
blessings come from God, that which is unpleasant will result as a
punishment. ~~sala~~

Good

~~sala~~ is a thing to be accepted, Non-acceptance of good brings evil.

Good is always there if we but look for it and have eyes to see it. When any-
thing unpleasant occurs it is either because we have deserved it or it is done
for our good, so we must bear it patiently and make the best we can of it.

If we do not the trouble will continue.

&&&&&&&&&&

THE LITERARY REV.

continual click

to be not so
et who showed
should be made,
sword play, but
 labor. Whitman
the limit of his

our version of
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an in the
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tend to
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rity I found
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indian forms. The Amerindian
nearest to what will be the ultimat-
it is shaped by centuries of adjustme-
ican environment.

A perfect example of the experientia
in thought-statement and gesture-rhythm
"Walpi Was Song":

Get rocks,
Tie them in buckskins,
Make of them a fierce and deadly weapon.
Take sticks,
Sharpen them with fire
With them find the hearts of our foes.

Compare it with this militaristic swagger:

Strike—for the green graves of your sires,
Strike—for your altars and your fires,
God and your native land!

And then come back to Sandburg's "Long Guns," with
its machine rattle marking the swing of the war-
thought through the democratic consciousness:

... no land for a man, no land for a country
Unless the guns sprang up
And spoke their language.

Every now and then some poet challenges my
recommendation to study the Amerindian modes, on
the assumption that they are to be imitated merely
because of their native origins. What I mean to say
is that through our struggle to conquer the American
environment, we had to come back to precisely the
gestures that governed the Amerindian rhythms. As
speech follows gesture, what we get as characteristic
of both modern and aboriginal poetic modes is a pre-
ponderance of kinetic energy, the energy of move-
ment. Some of Vachel Lindsay's poems, notably
"General Booth Enters Heaven," are fairly explosive
with it. But kinetic energy cannot often be confined
in regular metres where there is continual necessity
for making weak syllables do duty for strong, or of
transposing the kinetic order of speech to make the
strong syllable fall on the accented beat. Inevitably,
the rhythm bursts the mould and produces what is
known as "free verse," which I have called, for
want of a better term, "the landscape line," the line
shaped by its own inner necessity as the lines of the
shaped. The landscape line does not scan,

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hav-
jack
and de-
canyons
have des
one of its t
to find it;
into the Ro
actually asce
summit long
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that lone emi-
somewhere on
this is a picnic,
experienced know-
of the rocks, no k-
country, no bedding
sufficient food. On
scent by a rock chu-
darkness to spend the
goes pale in one of t
tinental Divide, f
a bombardment
and every one
stant and d-
off with a
ceedingly
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Childrens University School

10 West 72nd Street
New York

Mrs. H. Murray
Dalton
Mass.

MR. T. Y. WANG
BOX 294, TEACHERS' COLLEGE
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK CITY
U. S. A.

May, 11, 1925

My dear Mrs. Crane,

I think that you will send
the money this week. There is a mail going
to China from New York on the 18 th via San
Francisco, and another going on the 22nd via
Seattle. In order to safeguard the delivery
I here send you two envelopes which are addressed
with both English and Chinese. I am sure that
you will like this care.

As I understand, the bank usually gives
two orders for the remittance to distant countr-
ies. The second order is guard against any
accident that the first order may fail to reach
the person addressed. If the New York bank

where the money is to be remitted will do the
same, please send the first order, and keep
the second one which you may send after one
week or so.

With my best regards to and deep apprecia-
tion of you.

I am,

P. S.

Minister Sze has written five letters of
introduction and one letter of public introducti-
on in the form of a public notice for Miss
Parkhusrt. Wishing to send her personally in
order to translate contents for her, I would

MR. T. Y. WANG

BOX 294, TEACHERS' COLLEGE

U. S. A.

not be able to go her school until after the
examination is over. Please tell her so
when you might meet her.

By the way please send the money
with *registered letter*.