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The Dei'dopmcnt of Primary and Secondary Public Education in Michigan. By DANIEL PUTNAM, Professor in the Normal College, Ypsilanti. Ann Arbor: G. Wahr, 1904. Pp. 273. For more than half a century the author of this historical sketch has been identified with all that was best in the development of edu- cation in the Middle West. His memory is an original document, and his judgment of men and testimony is always carefully and intelligently formed. The subjects of the chapters are : education in the territorial period, constitutional provisions, the state system, development of public schools of the various grades, courses of study, support, required attendance, preparation of teachers, supervision, textbooks, libraries, rights and privileges, moral and religious instruction, state board and superintendent, special institutions, statistics and references.

C. R. HENDERSON.

Yearbook of Legislation, 1903. Edited by ROBERT H. WRITTEN, Sociology Librarian, New York State Library. Albany: New York State Education Department, 1904.

This thick, handsome volume is a fine example of the splendid service which the great library with ample means and efficient agents is able to render the public and especially students. The messages of the governors of states for 1903 are valuable indications of the demands made on legislatures in all parts of the Union ; the sum- mary of legislation shows how much of these demands was actually embodied in statutes ; and there are reviews of legislation by numer- ous specialists on interpretations of the significance and tendencies of the entire movement. Having frequent occasion to use these docu- ments, the teacher of practical sociology has special reasons for recording his grateful recognition of their value.

C. R. HENDERSON.

Dr. Barnardo. By REV. JOHN H. BATT. London: S. W. Par- tridge & Co., 1904. Pp. 196.

The Duke of Argyll writes an introduction in which he speaks with enthusiasm of the work of Dr. Barnardo for the waifs of Eng- li>li cities, "the most fruitful enterprise of our day." The te$t describes the personality of the founder, whose phenomenal career has attracted the attention of the world of philanthropy, and tells the