Farm Boys and Girls Part 8

MACAULAY. Lays of Ancient Rome. 75 cents. Macmillan.

KIPLING. Captains Courageous. $1.50. Century.

NICOLAY AND HAY. Boy's Life of Lincoln. $1.50. Century.

EGGLESTON. Hoosier School Boy. $1. Scribner; also Heath.

In addition to the foregoing, there is beginning to come from the press a ma.s.s of juvenile literature that promises to furnish most practical inspiration and guidance to the juvenile mind on the farm. Much of this new rural life literature may be had for the asking or for the mere price of publication. The following are recommended:--

_The Rural School Leaflet._ Edited by Alice G. McCloskey, and issued under the general direction of L. H. Bailey at Ithaca, N.Y.

The Country Life Publications, issued by D. W. Working, Superintendent of Agricultural Extension, Morgantown, W.Va.

The series published by A. B. Graham, Superintendent of the Extension Department, Ohio University, Columbus.

The annual reports of County Superintendent O. J. Kern, Rockford, Ill., and of County Superintendent George W. Brown, Paris, Ill.

The Wisconsin Arbor and Bird Day Annual, issued by State Superintendent C. P. Cary, Madison, Wis.

The Extension Departments of many of the state universities and nearly all of the state agricultural colleges are now issuing a series of small pamphlets on such matters as stock judging, grain breeding, soil testing, and home economics. This literature should be given the widest possible circulation in the country home, as it will prove helpful both to the young and to the parents in their direction of the young.

_Literature on Child-rearing_

Parents who are seriously in earnest in the matter of developing the lives of their children will find great a.s.sistance and much inspiration through the reading of books and magazines on the child-rearing problems. In fact, it may be put down as a practical certainty that the work of child training cannot go on effectively and continue in its interest except one have some aids of the kind just named. Therefore, the interested parent should cast about for the books and magazines that promise to serve in the solution of the particular problems at hand. It happens that the author has collected a large number of books and periodicals of this cla.s.s and that he has made a somewhat critical examination of them.

In listing the t.i.tles below, a word or phrase is used to indicate the contents or purpose of the text.

1. Periodicals on Child-rearing

_The American Baby._ American Publishing Company, 1 Madison Ave., New York City. $1 per year, 10 cents per copy. Contains much detailed and most helpful instruction on the care of the child.

_American Motherhood._ Coopertown, N.Y. $1 per year, 10 cents per copy. Helpful and sympathetic. Especially strong in respect to health and sanitation and in methods of instructing children in regard to the secrets of life.

_The Child-Welfare Magazine._ Official organ of the National Congress of Mothers, 147 North 10th Street, Philadelphia. 50 cents per year, 10 cents per copy.

The educational pamphlets published by the Society of Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, 9 E 2d Street, New York City. Excellent monographs, each treating some urgent child problem in relation to morals, sanitation, and the like.

The Home-training Bulletins, prepared and issued by William A. McKeever, Professor of Philosophy, State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kan. 5 cents each. Each of these pamphlets contains about sixteen pages and covers a particular home-training problem. The numbers thus far issued are:--

1. The Cigarette Smoking Boy.

2. Teaching the Boy to Save.

3. Training the Girl to Help in the Home.

4. a.s.sisting the Boy in the Choice of a Vocation.

5. A Better Crop of Boys and Girls.

6. Training the Boy to Work.

7. Teaching the Girl to Save.

8. Instructing the Young in Regard to s.e.x.

Others are in course of preparation.

2. Books on Child-rearing

HOLT. Care and Feeding of Children. $1 Appleton. Most helpful and practical.

CURLEY. Short Talks with Young Mothers. $1.50. Putnams.

Helpful from the medical side.

HARRISON. A Study of Child Nature. $1. Chicago Kindergarten College. Excellent. A standard help.

ALLEN. Civics and Health. $1.25. Ginn & Co. Most helpful on the side of sanitation.

HALL. Youth. $1.50. Appleton. A great book on child study by one of the world's leading authorities.

KING. Psychology of Child Development. $1. University of Chicago Press. A Fundamental work for those who wish to make a scientific study of child life.

RITCHIE. A Primer of Sanitation. 60 cents. World Book Company. A clear, helpful presentation of the facts.

CHANCE. The Care of the Child. $1. Penn Publishing Company.

Full of detailed information about infants, especially.

MANGOLD. Child Problems. $1.25. Macmillan. Presents the matter ably and in the light of the freshest information.

CALL. The Freedom of Life. $1. Little, Brown & Co. A great and inspiring book. Will give rest and poise to tired mothers.

GULICK. Mind and Work. $1. Doubleday, Page & Co. A companion book to the one above, only more suitable for the father.

SALEEBY. Parenthood and Race Culture. $2.50. Moffat, Yard & Co., New York. A remarkably instructive volume on race improvement.

REFERENCES

How to Direct Children's Reading. Mae E. Schreiber. Annual volume N.E.A., 1900, p. 637.

A Suggestive List for a Children's Library, 483 t.i.tles. Helen T. Kennedy. Democrat Printing Company. Minneapolis.

A Mother's List of Books for Children. Catherine W. Arnold.

A. C. McClurg & Co.

Children's Rights. Kate Douglas Wiggin. Pages 69 ff. "What shall Children Read?" Houghton, Mifflin Company.