Lectures on Teaching, Delivered in the University of Cambridge during the Lent Term, 1880

Abstract

OUR review of this new contribution to the now copious and increasing educational literature of the country has been delayed by causes complimentary to its author. The felicity and charm of the style, the freshness of treatment of even hackneyed topics, and the interest and practicalness of the matter, rendered the reviewer's proverbial dipping into a book impossible in this case, and the work had to be read for its own sake as much as for that of criticism. The author has long been known as one of our most earnest practical and enlightened educationists, and though perhaps not a polemical pioneer in the educational field, an advanced, safe, and healthy thinker on the important problems involved. Of this new utterance of her husband, the uxor dilectissima, to whom the book is curiously but most appropriately dedicated, has no reason to be ashamed, even though it is not the newest poem or novel, and only a prosaic, but by no means prosy, volume of “Lectures on Teaching”—a title, by the way, much too modest for the quality of the book, which should in future editions be exchanged for one more worthily distinctive and more expressive of its contents.

Lectures on Teaching, Delivered in the University of Cambridge during the Lent Term, 1880.

By J. G. Fitch (Cambridge: University Press, 1881.)