Fundamentals of Child Study

Abstract

“THIS book,” we are told, “is an attempt to present, in an organised form, an outline of the new science of child-study for investigators, students, teachers, and parents. … It was the original intention,” of the author, “to summarise all the principal child-study investigations that have been made.” But this plan was evidently abandoned at a very early stage, and we have Instead the present popularly written volume, which we can heartily recommend both to teachers and parents. Its style is pleasing, and its matter fairly correct, embodying the experience of fourteen years' study and teaching in the subject. Were the contents as widely read as they deserve to be, the immense importance of child-study, as a basis for methodical teaching and rational education, would be more generally realised.

Fundamentals of Child Study.

By Edwin A. Kirkpatrick Pp. xxi + 384. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd.) Price 5s. net.