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 Whittaker and Co.'s List of ^r. iLclanD's CDucational Publications. Third Edition, Crown Zvo, Cloth, i>s. PRACTICAL EDUCATION. A WORK ON PREPARING THE MEMORY, DEVELOPING QUICKNESS OF PERCEPTION, AND TRAINING THE CONSTRUC- TIVE FACULTIES. By CHARLES G. LELAND. Author of ^^ The Minor Arts" " Twelve Manuals o/ Art Work" " The Albttm of Repoussi Work" Industrial Art in Education, or Circular No. 4, 1882," '"'Hints on Self-Edtication" etc- Mr. Leland was the first person to introduce Industrial Art as a branch of education in the public schools of America. The Bureau of Education at Wash- ington, observing the success of his work, employed him in 1862 to write a pam- phlet showing how hand-work could be taken or taught in schools and families. It is usual to issue only 15,000 of these pamphlets, but so great was the demand for this that in two years after its issue more than 60,000 were given to applicants. This work will be found greatly enlarged in " Practical Education. " Owing to it thoCisalids of schools, classes, or clubs of industrial art were established in Eng- land, America and Austria. As at present a great demand exists for information as to organizing Technical Education, this forms the first part of the work. In it the author indicates that all the confusion and difference of opinion which at pre- sent prevails as to this subject, may very easily be obviated by simply beginning by teaching the youngest the easiest arts of which they are capable, and by thence gradually leading them on to more advanced w6rk. ",The basis of Mr. Leland's theory," says a reviewer, *'is that before learning, children should acquire the art of learning. It is not enough to fill the memory, memory must first be created. By training children to merely memorize, extra- ordinary power in this respect is to be attained in a few months. With this is associated exercises in quickness of perception, which are at first purely mechanical, and range from merely training the eye to mental arithmetic, and problems in all branches of education. Memory and quickness of perception blend in the development of the constructive faculties or hand-work. Attention or interest is the final factor in this system." ' ' Mr, Leland s book will have a "wide circulation. It deals ivith the whole sub- ject in such a downright practical fashion, and is so much the result of long personal experience and observation^ as to reiider it a veritable viine of valuable suggestions." — British Architect. ' It has little of the dryness usually associated with such books ; and no teacher can read its thoughtful pages without imbibing jnany valuable ideas.^' — Scottish Educational News. " Strongly to be recommended," — Chemical News. " This valuable little ujork" — Liverpool Daily Post. "Many of Mr. Lelands suggestions might be carried out advantageously among the young folks hi our large towns and villages." — Northern Whig.