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THE educationist anxious to keep pace with all that has been written on the very wide subject with which he is concerned has had an almost impossible task during recent years. The annual reports of the Commissioner of Education, Washington, are so bulky the last, that for 1899-1900, runs to 2348 pages—and the special reports of our own Board of Education are published so frequently, that one is tempted to give up in despair the effort to master their contents. In addition to these official publications there are the books written by private persons who have studied foreign methods of education on the spot. Mr. Hughes has, in the book before us, endeavoured to meet this difficulty, and to pro vide students with “a complete and accurate account of the present position of education in the four principal countries of the world,” by which he means England, France, Germany and the United States of America. In the compilation of the volume, free use has been made of the official reports mentioned, and numerous quotations from many writers show that the author has a good knowledge of recent educational literature.
The Making of Citizens. A Study of Comparative Education.
By R. E. Hughes Pp. viii+405. (London and Newcastle: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd., 1902.) Price 6s.
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The Making of Citizens A Study of Comparative Education . Nature 66, 604 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/066604a0
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