Book Reviews

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Biography: Nathaniel Hawthorne by Mark Van Doren. New York, William Sloan Associates; 273 pages; $3.50.

Education: Education and Health of the Partially Seeing Child by Winifred Hathaway. Columbia University Press. 216 pp. $2.50.

Life and Education in early Societies by Thomas Woody. The MacMillan Company. 825 pp. $7.50.

Principles and Practices of Vocational Education by Arthur B. Mays. McGraw-Hill Book Company 303 pp. $3.50.

Teaching Children to Read by Fay Adams, Lillian Gray, and Dora Reese. The Ronald Press Company. 515 pp. Price $4.00.

What Parents think about their Schools by Harold C. Hand. World Book Company. 219 pp. $2.52.

English: Mark my Words by John B. Opdycke. Harper & Bros. 687 pp. $5.00.

The Critical Reader by Wallace Douglas, Roy Lamson, and Hallett Smith. W. W. Norton & Co., Inc. 778 pp. $3.75.

General Literature: Notes Towards the Definition of Culture by T. S. Eliot. Harcourt, Brace and Company. 128 pp. $2.50.

History: Colonists in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607–1776 by Abbot E. Smith. The University of North Carolina Press. 435 pp. $5.00.

Philosophy :The Mature Mind by H. A. Overstreet. W. W. Norton. 1949. 295 pp. $2.95.

The Road to Reason by Lecomte du Nouy. Longmans, Green & Co. 256 pp. $3.50.

Psychology: Psychological Testing (Second Edition) by James L. Mursell. Longman's Green and Company, New York. 473 pp. $4.00.

Science: New Directions in Science Teaching by Anita D. Laton and S. Ralph Powers, McGraw-Hill Book Company. 150 pp. $2.50.

The Natural History of Mosquitoes by Marston Bates. The Macmillan Company. 368 pp. $5.00.

Reference: Webster's Geographical Dictionary. G. and C. Merriam Company, Springfield, Massachusetts. 1,352 pp. $8.50.

Social Studies: Russia in flux by Sir John Maynard. The MacMillan Company. 564 pp. $6.50.

The Embers Still Burn by Ira A. Hirschmann. Simon and Schuster. 272 pp. $3.00.