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THE Perse Playbooks are by now sufficiently well known to educationists. This little volume—the sixth of the series—embodies a selection of poems, ballads, and carols which have been produced, with one exception, by boys of the Perse School as a part of the system of the play-method of teaching English composition. The authors are all under fourteen, and the facility of the verse and, generally, its smoothness suggest that the statement that English verse composition has no terrors for, at any rate, some of the boys, is well founded. Some of the compositions are avowedly parodies, others are obviously derivative, but many show a poetic feeling which is surprising, as well as a considerable command of an appropriate vocabulary. The incongruous, the mark of the unpractised versifier, is commendably absent. It is interesting to note that of the various classes of poems, the carols are by far the most successful.
Homework and Hobby Horses.
Edited byH. Caldwell Cook. (Perse Playbooks, No. VI.) Pp. xii + 58. (London: B. T. Batsford, Ltd., n.d.) 3s. 6d. net.
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Homework and Hobby Horses . Nature 110, 211 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110211d0
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