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The Economics of Education. By J. Vaizey. Pp. 165. Faber and Faber, 1962. 21s. Education for the Professions. Edited by Nelson B. Henry. The 61st Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part II. Pp. xi, 312, cvii. University of Chicago Press, 1962. $4.50. American Higher Education: A Documentary History. By Richard Hofstadter and Wilson Smith. Two vols., pp. xv+474, viii + 542. University of Chicago Press, 1962. $15.00. Ability and Educational Opportunity. Edited by A. H. Halsey. Pp. an. London: H.M. Stationery Office (for O.E.C.D.), 1962. 15s. Medicine—A Lifelong Study. (Proceedings of the Second World Conference on Medical Education, Chicago, 1959.) Edited by Hugh Clegg, B.M.J., London. Pp. XX+816. New York and London: World Medical Association, 1961. £6.18s.od. Learning and Living, 1790–1960. By J. F. C. Harrison. Pp. 404. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961. 45s. University Adult Education. By Renee and William Petersen, and Warren Rovetch. Pp. 288. New York: Harper, 1961. $5.50. The Inquiring Mind. By C. O. Houle. Pp. 88. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1961. $5, and (paper) $1.50. Parent Education—an International Survey. By H. H. Stern. Pp. 164. University of Hull and Unesco Institute for Education, 1961. 6s. (paper). The Growth of Basic Mathematical and Scientific Concepts in Children. By K. Lovell. Pp. 154. University of London Press, 1962. 15s. On Teaching Mathematics. By B. Thwaites. Pp. 116. London: Pergamon Press, 1962. 7s. 6d. Popular Lectures in Mathematics. Parts 2, 4, 5, 6. About 75 pp each. London: Pergamon Press, 1962. 10s. each. Philosophy and Education. By Louis Arnaud Reid. Pp. xvi, 203. London: Heinemann, 1962. 25s. Modern Philosophies of Education (Third Edition). By John S. Brubacher. Pp. ix, 373. New York and London: McGraw‐Hill, 1962. 52s. 6d. An Introduction to the Sociology of Education. By Karl Mannheim and W. A. C. Stewart. Pp. xyiii, 187. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962. 21s. Sociometry and Education. By K. M. Evans. Pp. vii, 149. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962. 18s.