and comprehensive survey, of great value.
Charles A.L. Reed, _Marriage and Genetics_. Galton Press,
Cincinnati, Ohio, $1.00. A surgeon's message on eugenics,
especially on the aspects indicated in the title. A study of the
laws of human breeding.
II. Child Nature
*E.P. St. John, _Child Nature and Child Nurture_. Pilgrim Press,
$0.50. A textbook dealing with the nature of the child and with
problems of his training in the home.
*Irving King, _The High School Age_. Bobbs-Merrill & Co., $1.00
net. A study of the nature and needs of boys and girls in the first
period of adolescence. Written for all who are alive to the
problems of this period as well as for school people; gives
constructive suggestions for educational problems.
Elizabeth Harrison, _A Study of the Child Nature_. Chicago
Kindergarten College, $1.00. Long recognized as a standard for
parents in the study of the development and functions of the
child-life.
George E. Dawson, _The Right of the Child to Be Well Born_. Funk &
Wagnalls, $0.75. A plain study of eugenics, non-technical and
helpful; includes a chapter on eugenics and religion. To be
commended to parents.
George E. Dawson, _The Child and His Religion_. The University of
Chicago Press, $0.75. The religious nature and needs of the child
with some suggestions as to method.
*W. Arter Wright, _The Moral Conditions and Development of the
Child_. Jennings & Graham, $0.75. An important and valuable book on
the newer views of the religious development of the child-life.
Frederick Tracy and J. Stempfl, _The Psychology of Childhood_. D.C.
Heath & Co., $1.20. Gathers up the general results in the field of
child psychology.
*W.G. Koons, _The Child's Religious Life_. Jennings & Graham,
$1.00. From the modern point of view, dealing with some of the
interesting problems of the relation of the child to religious life
and the development of his religious ideas.
Thomas Stephens, _The Child and Religion_. Putnam, $1.50. A series
of short papers by English writers, particularly on the question of
child conversion.
George A. Hubbell, _Up through Childhood_. Putnam, $1.25. A good
general review with special reference to religious problems and
religious institutions.
Edith E.R. Mumford, _The
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