Holiday Plays. Marguerite Merington. Duffield & Co. Suitable for rural leaders. The County and Local Fair. L. H. Bailey. _The Country-Life Movement_, 1911. This article contains many practical and stimulating suggestions for making a successful county fair, on a new basis. Farmers' Institutes for Young People. Circular No. 99 of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (Free.) This circular gives a large fund of details of all sorts of clubs and movements. Kindergarten at Home. V. M. Hillyer. Baker-Taylor Company. N.Y. Contains much constructive work. The Young Farmer's Practical Library. Edited by Ernest Ingersoll and published by Sturgis-Walton Company, N.Y. (75 cents each.) Contains some excellent matter. The following volumes are included: From Kitchen to Garret. Virginia T. Van de Water. Neighborhood Entertainments. Renee B. Stern. The Farm Mechanic. L. W. Chase. Home Waterworks. Carleton J. Lynde. The Satisfaction of Country Life. Dr. James W. Robertson. Roads, Paths and Bridges. L. W. Page. Health on the Farm. Dr. L. F. Harris. Farm Machinery. J. B. Davidson. Electricity on the Farm. County Superintendent J. F. Haines, Noblesville, Indiana, has a fund of helpful data on agricultural fairs by young people. The Extension of Industrial and Agricultural Education. (Pamphlet.) Extension Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Children's Singing Games Old and New. Mari Ruef Hofer. A. Flanagan Company. Chicago. Miss Hofer is an authority of national reputation on the subject of play and games. CHAPTER XI _HOW MUCH WORK FOR THE COUNTRY BOY_ Over-work, poor pay, and little recreation are the agencies which annually drive thousands of good, promising youths from the rural districts into the cities, where their splendid native abilities for serving the world and society are most likely to become subordinated. All too often it is a case of a young man leaving the home place, surrounded by opportunities which he has not been allowed to avail himself of, and going into a place where he will take up the monotonous round of merely "holding a job." In the former position, under intelligent care and direction, he might have grown into a strong, self-reliant man, full of resources, endued with good purposes; and at last have taken rank among those who are lifting the race to higher things. In the position obtained in the city he is almost certain to find his surroundings badly cramped, his spontaneity largely restricted, and his power of initiative without a motive for its indulgence. In short, his city position will press him continually and insistently to the end that he reduce himself to a mere machine, or a mere cog in a great machine. SEE THAT THE WORK IS FOR THE BOY'S SAKE