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Abstract The Normal Child and Primary Education. By Arnold L. Gesell, Ph. D. (Clark), Assistant Professor of Education at Yale, and Beatrice Chandler Gesell, Ed. B. (Chicago). Boston, Ginn & Co., 1912. x, 342 pp. $1.50. Leh. Ed., $1.25. Mental Fatigue. By Tsuru Arai, Ph. D. Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. 1912. m, 115 pp. $1.00. Principles of Educational Practice. By Paul Klapper, Ph. D. Instructor of Education, College of the City of New York, New York. D. Appleton & Co., 1912. vi, 485 pp. $1.75. Applied Mental Efficiency. By Tasso Vance Orr. Chicago; The Efficiency Institute, 1913. 262 pp. $1.50, postpaid. Food and Flavor. A Gastronomic Guide to Health and Good Living. By Henry T. Finck. The Century Co., New York, 1913. 8°. 594 pp. $2.00. The Boy's Book of New Inventions. By Harry E. Maule. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1912. 12°. 374 pp. $1.60. The Teacher's Health. By L. M. Terman. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1913. 16°. 137 pp. 60 cents. School Hygiene. By Fletcher B. Dresslar, Ph. D. The Macmillan Co., New York, 1913. 12°. 367 pp. $1.25. Report of the Proceedings of the Conference of Health-Promoting Institutions. P. S. King & Son., London, 1911. 12°. 171 pp. Paper. IS. Lectures in Physiology of Exercise. By Robert Fischer, Dean of the Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene. Director of Physical Training and School Hygiene, Indianapolis Public Schools. Normal College of the North American Gymnastic Union, 1910. 71 pp. Medical Inspection of Schools of Philadelphia. Reprint from the Annual Report of the Department of Public Health and Charities for the Year 1912. Dunlap Printing Co., Philadelphia, 1913. 116 pp. The Study of Individual Children. By Maximilian P. E. Grossmann, Ph. D., Educational Director of the National Association for the Study and Education of Exceptional Children, Plainfield, N. J. 1912. 76 pp. 60 cents. Salesmanship. Compiled from the Lessons and Lectures written by the Thirty-seven Authors of the Complete Course. National School of Salesmanship, Minneapolis. 348 pp. Experimental Studies of Mental Defectives. By J. E. Wallace Wallin, Ph. D., Director of Psychological Clinic, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh. Warwick & York. 1912. 155 pp. $1.25. Handbook of Mental Examination Methods. By Sheperd Ivory Franz, Ph. D. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Co., New York. 1912. Thirty-three figures and diagrams. 165 pp. $2.00. The Tonsils and the Voice. By Richard B. Faulkner, M. D. The Presbyterian Bookstore, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1913. 12°. 381 pp. $2.00. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene. By Milton J. Rosenau, Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Harvard University. D. Appleton & Co., 1913. 8°. 1074 pp. $7.00. The Book of Indoor and Outdoor Games. By Mrs. Burton Kingsland. Sully & Kleinteich, 1913. 12° 610 pp. $1.00. The Christian Reconstruction of Modern Life. By Charles Henry Dickinson. The Macmillan Co., 1913. 12°. 327 pp. $1.50. Festivals and Plays. By Percival Chubb and Associates. Harper & Brothers, 1912. 12°. 403 pp. The Book of Useful Plants. By Julia E. Rogers. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913. 372 pp. $1.10. Guide Book to Childhood. By William B. Forbush. American Institute of Child Life, 1913 (2d edition). 8°. 232 pp. Health in Home and Town. By Bertha Millard Brown, S. B. D. C. Heath & Co., 1912. 12°. 311 pp. 60 cents.