The Project in Home Economics
[review-book]
James Vaughn
1922
The School Review
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... ntent at http://about.jstor.org/participate--jstor/individuals/early-journal--content. JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary source objects. JSTOR helps people discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content through a powerful research and teaching platform, and preserves this content for future generations. JSTOR is part of ITHAKA, a not--for--profit organization that also includes Ithaka S+R and Portico. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. THE SCHOOL REVIEW [March inevitable that the verse in such a volume shall range from almost worthless doggerel to exalted poetry. If any other adverse comment were in place concerning such an admirable effort, it would be that the poems present an equally wide range in difficulty; some are intended for young children; some are very difficult, even for adults. However, a discriminating teacher will be able to make excellent class use of these very elements, inequality in artistry and in difficulty. R. L. LYMAN Stories of American life.-The phrase, "imaginative training in the quality of American life," quoted from the preface of a new anthology' of American short stories, indicates the editor's purpose. Dr. Ramsay has assembled sixteen short stories of the best American writers, grouping them under the headings: "Stories of the Frontier," " Stories of Social Heritage," "Stories of Communal Consciousness," and "The Regionalist at Work." Some of the tales are well known, such as "The Luck of Roaring Camp"; some, like "Ellie's Furnishings" by Helen R. Martin, are less well known. All are admirable. Even more useful for the average teacher than the selection of stories itself are the study questions and answers and the classified reading list of 250 stories at the close of the book. If it be true that the most original contribution of America to the literature of the world has been the development of the short story; if in this contribution we may find interpreted American ideals, habits, and ambitions, what more appropriate than such high-school courses as Dr. Ramsay here advocates! R. L. LYMAN SROBERT L. RAMSAY (editor), Short Stories of America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1921. Pp. xi+348.
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