LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, SIR: I have the honor to transmit herewith the manuscript of a bibliography of education for the year 1907, compiled by James Ingersoll Wyer, jr., and Martha L. Phelps, of the New York State Library. The wide usefulness of these annual bibliographies has been clearly shown in connection with the publications of Mr. Wyer and his associates since the year 1899. It is found especially desirable to have such a publication issued as a part of the plan now in course of realization, of making the library of this office more directly useful to the libraries of educational institutions and to individual students of education throughout the country. I would respectfully recommend the publication of this bibliography, in the belief that it will have such wide and varied use. I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. ELMER ELLSWORTH BROWN, Commissioner. 5 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EDUCATION FOR 1907. INTRODUCTION. HISTORY. This bibliography is the ninth similar annual summary of the English literature of education. The first eight numbers, covering the years 1899-1906, appeared in the Educational Review for April, 1900; April, 1901; June, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905; September-October, 1906, and June, 1907. The publication of the present number is assumed by the United States Bureau of Education. There is also incorporated into the present annual summary, as the initial group of titles, under the caption "Bibliography," the annual list of" Recent Educational Bibliography," which has been printed in each October number of the School Review since 1898. Thus the two principal annual guides to the literature of educational topics have been united under new auspices in the present publication. PLAN. The bibliography is planned to include: 1. Books on educational subjects printed in the English language in 1907. 2. Important articles on the same topic from the periodicals of 1907. 3. Valuable papers published in the transactions of educational societies that bear the imprint date 1907. 4. All chapters of distinct educational interest from any books bearing date 1907 and all notable matter of the same sort wherever found. It does not include: a. Purely local current literature and reports of separate institutions, provinces, colonies, or states. For all such material the student is referred to reports of state departments and of the thousands of educational institutions in this country, in Great Britain, and in the colonies. b. Unimportant matter, such as is being constantly published in journals. c. Text-books. d. New editions with slight and unimportant changes. The distinctive features of the compilation are: 1. The careful examination of all matter included and the selection of only what seems important. 2. The numerous descriptive annotations. 3. The classification by subject-matter so that the worker in any line may find together the literature of interest to him. The decimal classification has, with a few deviations, been followed, both as being on the whole the most satisfactory classification in use, and as being very widely used by libraries. A detailed outline of the classification precedes the bibliography. The student of school hygiene, for example, finding from this outline that the year's literature on that subject is grouped under section 371.7, has but to turn to the section having that number in each of the previous annual lists to bring under his eyes the titles of the most important books and articles of the past nine years on his specialty. An author index of names and a minute subject index, bringing out many topics not mentioned in the classification, are appended. Unanimity, or even general agreement, can not be hoped for as to the selection, from the vast range of the annual literature on educational topics, of the articles that are best worth mention in a list like this, a list aiming at selection rather than completeness. Most of the current contributions appear in the proceedings of educational societies, and when the annual volume of papers and addresses of the National Education Association, the most important body of educators in the country, contains so much that, however pertinent and profitable it may have been as originally given, is trivial when considered for the purposes of this bibliography, the task of the bibliographer in examining the annual grist of similar grain is not an easy one. It has, indeed, seemed wisest in case of doubt to include certain. titles of apparently indifferent value (with suitable descriptive notes) rather than to risk the omission of articles that might be helpful. It is not claimed that all the matter listed here has permanent value. Much of it is but current chronicle, yet as such topics are tomorrow matters of educational history, it seems proper to include some of the most important literature relating to them. LITERATURE OF 1907. The official and semiofficial literature of the year has been unusually extensive. Two complete annual reports (four volumes) of the United States Commissioner of Education bring the belated series close up to date, and provide statistical summaries covering nearly all phases of American education, while the figures are relatively fresh. The National Education Association, in its interesting fiftieth anni versary volume and the usual annual volume of proceedings, covering the Los Angeles meeting, has also given us double measure; the notable papers read before the educational congress at the St. Louis exposition in 1904 at last have been collected and published (No. 61 below), while in value and extent the published papers and discussions of the constantly increasing number of educational associations have not been less than in past years. The important series of special reports from the British education office, begun under the editorship of Doctor Sadler, is increased by several new volumes (Nos. 81, 84, 295 below). An examination of section 375.6 of the bibliography and a comparison with the same section for previous years bring out sharply the marked increase in the attention paid to the subject of industrial education within a single year. Doctor Sadler's encyclopedic volume (No. 264) is easily the most significant contribution to a knowledge of the work done in Europe, while the monograph by Mr. A. J. Jones (No. 255), the formation of a national society for the promotion of this form of education (No. 260), a report of real progress by the new Massachusetts commission (No. 257), the attention paid to the topic on the programme of the Social Education Congress in Boston (No. 266), and an excellent synopsis (No. 261) of its importance and possibilities by Mr. H. S. Person, all testify to a new and very lively interest in the subject in the United States. The other topic which has received the most unwonted discussion during the year under review is that of teachers' salaries and pensions. The work and reports of the Carnegie Foundation have undoubtedly stimulated some cities and States to consider and adopt pension plans, and the matter of salaries has shown a "sympathetic interest which has in New York State gone to the point of attempting to secure (see No. 146) "equal pay for equal work" for both sexes through mandatory legislation. Among the books dealing with educational theory which challenge attention either by extent, timeliness, or content are Bray-The Town Child (No. 26); Chancellor-Motives, Ideals, and Values in Education (No. 29); Keatinge-Suggestion in Education (No. 51); and Urwick-The Child's Mind (No. 53). In methodology Bagley-Classroom Management (No. 168) deals not with how best to teach the substance of the various branches, but with the principles and technique of the routine of the schoolroom; De Garmo-Principles of Secondary Education (No. 227) carefully analyzes the content and value of the curriculum, subject by subject; while in MacClintock-Literature in the Elementary School (No. 308), O'Shea-Linguistic Development and Education (No. 237), and Young-Teaching of Mathematics in the Elementary and 47405-08-2 |