Commercial Education at Home and Abroad: a Comprehensive Handbook, providing materials for a Scheme of Commercial Education for the United Kingdom, including Suggested Curricula for all Grades of Educational Institutions

Abstract

THE joint authors of this book are respectively the I secretary of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce and the inspector for commercial subjects and modern languages to the West Riding County Council. They have done well to embody the results of their experience in a volume in which the promise held out in its some-what lengthy title is creditably fulfilled. Very copious particulars are given in regard to the organisation and plans of commercial schools in the chief countries of Europe, notably France, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. Designs of buildings, regulations and time-tables, both from these countries and from the United States of America, show in considerable detail how ample and varied is the provision made for the systematic teaching of “commercial” subjects, and how much our own countrymen have yet to learn in this department of national education. A considerable portion of the book is thus statistic.al and is made up of a great variety of official documents; but it is uncritical, and does not profess to do more than set forth existing facts, without discriminating very exactly between those portions of an elaborate programme which are of merely occasional and local importance and those which are entitled to rank as essential in every complete scheme of commercial and economic training.

Commercial Education at Home and Abroad: a Comprehensive Handbook, providing materials for a Scheme of Commercial Education for the United Kingdom, including Suggested Curricula for all Grades of Educational Institutions.

By Frederick Hooper James Graham. Pp. xiv + 267. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1901.) Price 6s.