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Source Book of the History of Education for the Greek and Roman Period. By PAUL MONROE. New York : The Macmillan Co., 1901. Pp. 515.

A Text-Book in the History of Education. By PAUL MONROE. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1905. Pp. 772.

These two volumes supply a long-felt need in the teaching of the history of education. The Source Book, which was the first to appear (1901), covers the Greek and Roman period, and is the first of a series of such source-books intended to supplement the Text-Book, which has just appeared (1905).

The Source Book, without attempting a definition either of history or of education, presents the most important selections from the literary sources relating to education "in the accepted historic meaning of the term that of a definitely organized institutional attempt to realize in individuals the ideals controlling a given people."

This volume is designed as a text; hence the sources are classified into periods, in order to afford the student aid in their interpretation, and each group of sources is accompanied by a brief introductory sketch indicating the general setting of the period to which it belongs and the main principles of interpretation to be followed. These introductory chapters furnish little more than a syllabus for study; the interpretation is purposely left in a large degree to the student.

Greek education is divided into four main periods or phases: old Greek education, for which the sources are Plutarch, Thu- cydides, Xenophon, and Plato; new Greek education, with selections from Aristophanes, Isocrates, and Plato; the Greek educational theorists Socrates, Xenophon, Plato, and Aristotle representing the historical, the philosophical, and the scientific views (with selections from the Cyropoedia of Xenophon, the Republic and the Laws of Plato, and the Politics of Aristotle) ; and later cosmo- politan Greek education, for which the sources are the Decrees of the Athenian Senate and the Athenian Assembly, the Panegyric on St. Basil by Gregory Nazienzen, and the Morals of Plutarch.

Roman education is treated in three periods: "Early Roman Education in General," "The Second Period of Early Roman Education," and "The Third Period or Hellenized Roman Educa- tion." For the early period we have selecttions from the laws of the Twelve Tables and from the De Oratore of Cicero. For the