(1) The Nature-Study Idea An Interpretation of the New School-movement to put the Young into Relation and Sympathy with Nature (2) Man and Nature on Tidal Waters (3) Tommy's Adventures in Natureland A Nature Story for Boys and Girls (4) Animal Romances

Abstract

(1) PROF. L. H. BAILEY is well known as a botanist who believes in the practical,and educational value of his science, and he has shown himself on many occasions able to give good reasons for the faith that is in him. In the present volume he discusses, in a lively and unconventional fashion, the true inwardness of “nature-study,” which is not science, nor knowledge nor facts. “It is spirit. It is an attitude of mind. It concerns itself with the child's outlook on the world.” “It would be better if it were called nature-sympathy.” We do not. think that professional educationists,.will quite agree with Prof. Bailey in associating all the psedagogical virtues with nature-study (for many of them may be expressed in the study of history, for instance), but most who have any sympathy at all with studying the world around us will agree with the sound educational sense which the book expresses. In a breezy and interesting fashion he discusses how nature-study may be taught, the school-garden, the rural-school problem, the teacher's outlook on nature, and about half ahundred particular inquiries, some of which are very quaint, e.g. “Now that there are so many nature-books, how shall I choose the most useful one?” or, already, “Is nature-study on the wane?”

(1) The Nature-Study Idea. An Interpretation of the New School-movement to put the Young into Relation and Sympathy with Nature.

By L. H. Bailey. Third edition, revised. Pp. ix + 246. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1909.) Price 4s. 6d. net.

(2) Man and Nature on Tidal Waters.

By Arthur H. Patterson. Pp. xvi + 315. (London: Methuen and Co., 1909.) Price 6s.

(3) Tommy's Adventures in Natureland. A Nature Story for Boys and Girls.

By Sir Digby Pigott Pp. xvi + 180. (London: Witherby and Co., 1909.) Price 2s. 6d. net.

(4) Animal Romances.

By Graham Renshaw. Pp. vi + 206. (London: Sherratt and Hughes, 1908.) Price 7s. 6d.