Part 2, ‘The imaginative life of children,’ includes six chapters

describing the content and conduct of the imagination at different stages in the child’s development, variations in the vividness, quality and tendencies of the imaginative processes in different individuals, its stimulating influence to good or evil habits of thought and action. Part 3, under the heading ‘School subjects and the imagination,’ begins with a consideration of the possibilities of training the imagination from the point of view of disciplining, stimulating, and directing the imaginative processes, including a brief description of the mental conditions facilitating such training. Then follow chapters explaining the imaginative processes involved in learning to read, spell, and draw, in the study of arithmetic, geography, history, and literature, nature-study, and science.”—School R

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“The treatment is characterized by a clearness of presentation which is quite at variance with the confused manner in which the subject of imagination is frequently discussed. The book should be of interest to all students of educational psychology.”

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“The book is readable and straightforward, and is one that a student ought to grasp without much supplementary explanation. Some of the exercises at the end of the chapters, however, seem too large to be handled by the type of student for whom the text is designed.” K. Gordon

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=KLAPPER, PAUL=, ed. College teaching; studies in methods of teaching in the college. *$4.50 World bk. 371.3

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A volume to which various specialists contribute. As Dr Klapper points out in his preface, the field is almost virgin. “The literature on college education in general and college pedagogy in particular is surprisingly undeveloped.” Dr Nicholas Murray Butler writes an introduction. The book is in six parts. Part 1 consists of three papers: History and present tendencies of the American college, by S. P. Duggan; Professional training for college teaching, by Sidney E. Mezes; General principles of college teaching, by Paul Klapper. Part 2 covers the sciences, with contributions by T. W. Galloway, Louis Kahlenberg, Harvey B. Lemon, and others. Part 3 is devoted to the social sciences, including economics, sociology, history, political science, philosophy, ethics, psychology and education. Part 4 is devoted to languages and literature; part 5 to the arts; and part 6 to Vocational subjects, the latter embracing engineering, mechanical drawing, journalism, and business education. Bibliographies accompany a number of the papers and there is an index.

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“Inasmuch as all of the contributors were selected because of their scholarship, their interest in the teaching phase of the subject, and their reputation in the academic world, what they have to say on the teaching of their special subjects should be of great value to actual and prospective college teachers.”

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=KLEIN, DARYL.= With the Chinks. (On active service ser.) il *$1.50 (3c) Lane 940.48

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The book contains the diary of a second lieutenant in the Chinese labor corps, while engaged in training a company of 490 coolies in China and taking them on a long journey by way of Canada and Panama to France to be used as laborers behind the lines. In describing the journey the author gives his observations of the mental shock and change of life and vision that the coolie is subjected to in changing from the East to the West. He also describes the coolie as a simple, jolly fellow, worthy of trust and of an affectionate character. The book is illustrated.

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“The book is competently written, and is agreeably unusual amongst the crop of war books.”

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“He understands things Chinese. He has sympathy in telling of these ‘Shantung farmers.’ It is an attitude such as Mr Klein’s, penetrating, free from either sentimentalism or maudlin chatter, about the yellow peril, which ought to enable Americans to adjust their commercial relations to China with a higher sense of business integrity. The title of the book is distinctly unworthy of its subject matter.”

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“What we like about this little book is its genuine and genial humanity.”

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“Mr Klein’s daily life with his coolies and with his colleagues is given with an intimate vivacity which makes it very real.”

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=KLEIN, HERMAN.= Reign of Patti. il *$5 Century

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Mme Patti never realized her intention of writing an autobiography for which she had designated the author of the present volume as her collaborator. The request however gives authority to this biography for which the author has collected material from the zenith of Patti’s career to the close. The book contains numerous portraits of the singer taken at various ages and in many rôles; appendices and an index.

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Reviewed by H: T. Finck

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“Very suggestive, at times somewhat irritating, but always full of interest. Mr Klein is not a literary man, he is a chronicler; his book will remain as the one accurate record of the career of a diva who, in her special line, has as yet no rival.” M. F. Egan

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=R of Rs= 62:447 O ’20 190w

=The Times [London] Lit Sup= p773 N 25 ’20 1300w

=KLEISER, GRENVILLE.= Pocket guides to public speaking. 10v ea *$1 Funk 808.5

Mr Kleiser, formerly instructor in public speaking at Yale divinity school and author of a number of works bearing on the subject, has prepared the ten small volumes that compose this series. The titles are: How to speak without notes (20–7372); Something to say: how to say it (20–7370); Successful methods of public speaking (20–7371); Model speeches for practise (20–7369); The training of a public speaker (20–7373); How to sell through speech (20–7300); Impromptu speeches: how to make them (20–7375); Word-power: how to develop it (20–7374); Christ: the master speaker (20–7277); Vital English for speakers and writers (20–7283).

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“In these days when the tendency is so strong towards degeneracy in the use of the English language it would be difficult to exaggerate the value of such a contribution as Professor Kleiser has made in these volumes towards the use of proper forms and pure language in ordinary speaking as well as writing. They are of almost equal value to the clergyman, lawyer, publicist, salesman and letter-writer.” H. H. F.

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“In this case the whole is actually less than one of the parts, for in