Educational Notes

Many teachers will be interested to know that we have expanded the term ‘Atlantic Classics’ to include most of our best-known educational titles, although it still denotes the two volumes which formed the nucleus of our textbook department. Since practically all of the books are composed of material which originally appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, it seems fitting that each should be included under the general title, which implies the significant stamp of the magazine’s approval. The complete list of these books will be found on an advertising page of this issue.

Dr. Flexner, in an article published some time ago in the Atlantic, raised the question whether it was really worth while to teach technical grammar. There is an apparent revival of the subject in the schools, for thirteen states are now using The Little Grammar, and one principal writes — what is not habitually written of textbooks — that his pupils buy the book ‘of their own accord.'