class sent their representative to the principal, to ask that they might take care of themselves. The request was granted. During the day, the principal looked in upon them: the governor was at the teacher's desk hearing the lessons, and the order was perfect. So great was the ultimate change in the governor's conduct, as wel! as in his appearance, that when he left school to go to work, he received the strongest of testimonials, and was started on an honorable career. Reference has already been made to the benefit of the system upon the teacher. Teaching is no longer regarded as drudgery, but is looked upon as a labor of love. The artisan has become an artist, and his work fascinates him with its charm. It is the experience of Pygmalion and Galatea repeated. BIBLIOGRAPHY Note. The bibliography of ethical instruction is an extensive one. Edward Howard Griggs, in the volume mentioned below, devotes forty-three pages to it, and does not by any means exhaust the list. When, however, one attempts to select from this great number the books of practical value to the elementary school teacher, the list is surprisingly small. After excluding all purely abstract works on the science of ethics, and all that merely emphasize the need of instruction in the subject, I find after careful selection that of those which are available for immediate practical use the following are the best: Moral Education. Edward Howard Griggs. B. W. Huebsch, New York, 1906. The Brownley System of Child Training. Jane Brownley. Holden, Springfield, Mass., 1906. Morals and Manners. William J. Shearer. Macmillan, New York, 1905. Ethics for Young People. C. C. Everett. Ginn & Co., Boston, 1891. Conduct as a Fine Art. Gilman and Jackson. Houghton Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1891. Primer of Right and Wrong. J. N. Larned. Houghton Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1902. Moral Instruction of Children. Felix Adler. D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1902. The Heart of a Boy. G. Mantellini. Laird & Lee, Chicago, 1899. The Boy Problem. William Byron Forbush. Pilgrim Press, Youth, its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene. G. Stanley School Management. E. E. White. American Book Co., New York, 1892. Children's Rights. Kate Douglas Wiggin. Houghton Mifflin & Co., Boston, 1892. Moral Instruction and Training in Schools. Edited by M. A. Sadler. Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1909. Ethics of Success. Readers I, II, III. Silver, Burdett & Co., New York, 1907. Practical Ethics. William DeWitt Hyde. Henry Holt & Co., New York, 1892. Lessons on Morals. Julia M. Dewey. Hinds & Noble, New York. The Right Life. H. A. Stimson. A. S. Barnes Co. Character Building. C. S. Coler. Hinds & Noble. Map of Life (Chap. XII). W. E. H. Lecky. Longmans, The Making of Character. J. Mac Cunn. Macmillan & Co. The Children of the Poor. Jacob A. Riis. Charles Scribner's Ethics for Children. E. L. Cabot. Houghton Mifflin & Co. Boys of the Street and How to Win Them. C. Stelzle. Fleming H. Revell Co. The Court of Boyville. W. A. White. McClure, Phillips & Co. School and Society. John Dewey. University of Chicago Press. Citizenship and the Schools. J. W. Jenks. Henry Holt & Co. Short History of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Madison Ave. and 26th St., New York. Short History of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 297 Fourth Ave., New York. Short History of the Sunshine Society, 96 Fifth Ave., New York. BOOKS ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE VIRTUES OF CHARACTER BUILDING Poor Boys who became Famous. Girls who became Famous. Old Testament Stories. E. Chisholm. E. P. Dutton & Co. |