"I must express with your connivance the joy I have had, the enthusiasm I have felt, in gloating over every page of what I believe is the most brilliant book of any season since Carlyle's and Emerson's pens were laid aside. The title does not hint at any more than a fraction of the contents. It is a highly original critique of philistinism and gradgrindism in education, library science, science in general, and life in general. It is full of humor, rich in style, and eccentric in form and all suffused with the perfervid genius of a man who is not merely a thinker but a force. Every sentence is tinglingly alive, and as if furnished with long antennæ of suggestiveness. I do not know who Mr. Lee is, but I know this--that if he goes on as he has been, we need no longer whine that we have no worthy successors to the old Brahminical writers of New England. "I have been reading with wonder and laughter and with loud cheers. It is the word of all words that needed to be spoken just now. It makes me believe that after all we haven't a great kindergarten about us in authorship, but that there is virtue, race, sap in us yet. I can conceive that the date of the publication of this book may well be the date of the moral and intellectual renaissance for which we have long been scanning the horizon."--WM. SLOANE KENNEDY in _Boston Transcript_. New York--G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS--London _A Book for Parents and Teachers_ Up Through Childhood A Study of Some Principles of Education in Relation to Faith and Conduct By George Allen Hubbell, Ph.D. (Columbia) Vice-President of Berea College With Introduction by Dr. Frank M. McMurray Teachers College, N. Y. _12mo. $1.25 net. By mail, $1.40_ The book is divided into four parts: Part I., dealing with the School of Life, in which are discussed (1) life as opportunity, (2) that aim of education which will make it possible to use this opportunity aright, and (3) the institutions of education which, as environment, contribute to the unfolding and instruction of the child. Part II. deals with the teacher in relation to his work as a quickener, and then passes to the teacher's preparation, his relation to the Bible, and last and best his relation to the child. Part III. deals with the young being in all stages of his growth from birth to adult life, first taking up the broad question of man's place in nature, and dealing with that as fundamental to all further interpretation. The other topics concern themselves with man's reaction on environment, with the development of the mental powers and the placing of these in due relation to each other, with the training of the child's faith, with the specific consideration of the boy's and girl's experiences to adult life, and with the rounded life. New York--G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS--London