Froebel’s _Education of Man_, trans. by W. N. Hailmann, is a vol. of Appleton’s Series, ed. by Dr. W. T. Harris. The _Autobiography_ trans., by Michaelis and Moore, is published by Sonnenschein. The _Mutter-u-K.-lieder_ have been trans. by Miss Lord (London, Rice). _Reminiscences of Froebel_ by the Baroness Marenholtz-Bülow, is trans. by Mr. Horace Mann. _The Child and Child Nature_ is trans. from the Baroness by Miss A. M. Christie. The Froebel lit. is now immense. I will simply mention some of those who have expounded Froebel in _English_: Miss Shirreff, Miss E. A. Manning, Miss Lyschinska, Miss Heerwart, Mdme. De Portugall, Miss Peabody, H. G Bowen, F. W. Parker, W. N. Hailmann, Joseph Payne, W. T. Harris, are the names that first suggest themselves. Henry Barnard’s _Kindergarten and Child Culture_ is a valuable collection of papers. XVIII. JACOTOT, A METHODIZER. 1770-1840. § 1. We are now by degrees becoming convinced that teachers, like everyone else who undertakes skilled labour, should be trained before they seek an engagement. This has led to a great increase in the number of Normal Schools. In some of these schools it has already been discovered that while the study of principles requires much time and the application of much intellectual force, the study of methods is a far simpler matter and can be knocked off in a short time and with no intellectual force at all. Methods are special ways of doing things, and when it has been settled what is to be done and why, a knowledge of the methods available adds greatly to a teacher’s power; but the what and the why demand our attention before the how, and the study of methods disconnected from principles leads straight to the prison-house of all the teachers’ higher faculties—routine. § 2. I have called Jacotot a methodizer because he invented a special method and wished everything to be taught by it. But in advocating this method he appeals to principles; and his principles are so important that at least one man great in educational science, Joseph Payne, always spoke of him as his master. § 3. In the following summary of Jacotot’s system I am largely indebted to Joseph Payne’s Lectures, which he published in the _Educational Times_ in 1867, and which I believe Dr. J. F. Payne has lately reprinted in a volume of his father’s collected papers.