. Review of reviews and world's work. F. MILLARD. The Philippine Experiences of an AmericanTeacher, by William B. Freer (Scribners), is notmerely what might be expected from its title,—an ac-count of the Philippine school system,—but it is evenmore important as a revelation of Filipino deals with the familiar, common life in the islands,and shows how American educational methods arebeing adapted to native conditions. Mr. H. Fielding Halls study A People at School(Macmillan) is a monograph on the Burmese, the resultof a number of years residence in Burma. BIOGRAPHICAL STUD


. Review of reviews and world's work. F. MILLARD. The Philippine Experiences of an AmericanTeacher, by William B. Freer (Scribners), is notmerely what might be expected from its title,—an ac-count of the Philippine school system,—but it is evenmore important as a revelation of Filipino deals with the familiar, common life in the islands,and shows how American educational methods arebeing adapted to native conditions. Mr. H. Fielding Halls study A People at School(Macmillan) is a monograph on the Burmese, the resultof a number of years residence in Burma. BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES. A very important biography, that of the late Arch-bishop Temple, has just appeared in two volumes, im-ported from London by the Macmillans. It is en-titled The Memoirs of Archbishop Temple, by SevenFriends, and is edited by E. G. Sandford, Archdeaconof Exeter. Dr. Frederick Temple was one of those char-acters which belong, not only to their own THE LATE DR. FREDERICK TEMPLE. but to all time. Not only the Archbishop of Canter-bury, but the strong, virile, .statesman-like personality,have left a legacy of character that cannot be Sandford declares that the work is not a memoir inreality, but a series of records of a career. The workpresents Dr. Temple as a man with a conscience likesteel and with the driving energy of a dynamo. Al^though a virile man, he retained the heart of a child,and now, says Dr. Sandford, in conclusion, the air of 638 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REFIEIV OF REVIEWS.


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