21 NOVEMBER 1925, Page 29

A PEDAGOGUE'S COMMONPLACE BOOK. Compiled by - -, Edith Rowland. (Dent.

5s.) THIS is an original kind of anthology, containing extracts from works written in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by " men notedly known for their earnest endeavours to promote the welfare of more profitable learning in English schools." Much excellent and unfamiliar material has been disinterred by Miss Rowland, and the book, well arranged and annotated, not merely makes good reading, ..but extends. our knowledge of educational thought and aspiration in Tudor and Stuart England.