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Part I: GENERAL DATA

YEAR BOOKS

Bell, H. T. MONTAGUE. The Near East Year Book and Who's Who. London, The Near East, Ltd., 1927. 943 p.

Contains sketches of education in Bulgaria, Greece, Yugoslavia, Rumania, and Turkey.

The Near East Year Book, 1931-32. London, The Near East, Ltd., 1932. 1128 p.

Contains sketches of education in Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Rumania, Turkey, and Yugoslavia.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. TEACHERS COL

LEGE. INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE. Educational yearbook of the International Institute of Teachers College, 1924. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1925. 650 p.1

Accounts of education in Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Czechoslavia, England, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, South Africa, and the United States.

Educational

Yearbook, 1925. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1926. 583 p.

Accounts of education in the Argentine Republic, Brazil, Chile, England, France, Germany, Holland, Dutch East Indies, India, Japan, Latvia, New Zealand, Scotland, United States, and Uruguay.

Educational

Yearbook, 1926. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1927. 596 p.

Accounts of education in Austria, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Irish Free State, Northern Ireland, Newfoundland, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States.

1 Reference to the nine educational yearbooks listed in this series is made also under the name of the country, as for example for Argentina: Educational Yearbook, 1925. (See pages 7-8.)

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INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF EDUCATION. Annuaire International de l'Éducation et de l'Enseignement, 1933. Genève, Bureau International d'Éducation, 1933. 345 p.

Gives general official data on education for the year 1933 in Albania, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Nicaragua, Netherlands, Poland, Rumania, Siam, Soviet Union, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, and the United States.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS' INSTITUTE OF INTELLECTUAL COOPERATION. Holiday courses in Europe, 1934. Paris, Imprimerie Polyglotte Vuibert, 1934. 80 p.

This is the seventh annual list. It contains data on 155 courses in 99 different localities arranged in the alphabetical order of the countries and places where they are to be held. The list is

GELEHRTEN

obtainable from The World Peace Foundation, 40 Mount Vernon Street, Boston, Mass. MINERVA, JAHRBUCH DER WELT. Einunddreissigster Jahrgang 1933. Erste Abteilung. Berlin und Leipzig, Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1933.

This Part I consists of two volumes, Band I and Band II. Band I is A to L, inclusive, of a list of research insti tutes, observatories, libraries, archives, museums, commissions, and societies in all the countries of the world. They are arranged in the alphabetical order of the names of the cities in which they are located. Band II is M to Z

PERCY, Lord EUSTACE, editor in chief. The Year Book of Education, 1932. London, Evans Bros., ltd., 1932. 1013 p.

A collection of articles, written by specialists, on education in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; the British Commonwealth of Nations (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada, India, Irish Free State, Newfoundland, Southern Rhodesia, British dependencies in Tropical Africa, Ceylon, Trinidad and Tobago, Cyprus, and Palestine); and foreign countries (France, Germany, Italy, United States of America, Swe den, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Argentina, China, Turkey, and Egypt).

The Year Book of Education,
London, Evans Bros., ltd.,

1933. 1933. 860 p.

Contents: Statistics; finance of education in the United Kingdom; structure and law of education in the United Kingdom; education policy and method in relation to modern needs; modern scientific aids to teaching; school architecture; ideals of religious education; the health services; universities in the British Empire and the United States of America; education in the Dominions: education of the African native; the British colonies; the League of Nations and Intellectual Cooperation; and foreign countries (France, Japan, Soviet Russia, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, and Hungary).

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the English-speaking nations; events in education in the English-speaking naitons; foreign countries; and the finance of education in the United Kingdom.

GENERAL ACCOUNTS

ABEL, JAMES F. The effects of the economic depression on education in other countries. Office of Education, Bulletin, 1933, no. 14. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1933. 37 p.

A general survey of education from 1919 to 1929 and of the effects on it of the depression in the years 1929 to 1932.

Higher education in foreign countries; its history and present status. (A list of references) Circular No. 77, U.S. Office of Education. Washington, February 1933.

30 p.

A bibliography for the use of college students of comparative education.

Major trends of education in other countries. Bureau of Education, Bulletin, 1928, No. 13. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1928. 48 p.

An account of educational events in 1924-26.

AHMAD, ZIA UDDIN. Systems of education. New York and London, Longmans, Green & Co., ltd., 1929. 303 p.

An account of the school systems in England, Germany, France, and India. CABOT, STEPHEN P. Secondary education in Germany, France, England, and Denmark. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1930. 110 p.

Lectures delivered at the graduate school of education, Harvard University, 1929.

CLOYD, DAVID E. Modern education in Europe and the Orient. New York, The Macmillan Co., 1917. 451 p.

Brief statements about education in England, Scotland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Japan, and China. Refers mainly to the pre-war period.

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Welterziehungs

EBERHARD, D. OTTO. bewegung. Berlin, Furche-Verlag, 1930. 253 p.

Deals with modern trends in education throughout the world; includes such topics as the lay school of France, Soviet pedagogy, modernism in Turkey, rebuilding Jewish Palestine through the school, etc.

GREAT BRITAIN. BOARD OF EDUCATION. Special reports on educational subjects. Volume 8. Education in Scandinavia, Switzerland, Holland, Hungary, Portugal, Servia, and commercial education in Japan. London, His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1902, 884 p.

HARLEY, JOHN EUGENE. International understanding. Agencies educating for a new world. Stanford University, Stanford University Press, 1931. 604 p.

A guidebook of information about recent developments in higher international education, particularly in the field of social science.

HOERNLE, A. W. An outline of the native conception of education in Africa. In Africa, 4: 145-163. April 1931.

An attempt to outline certain fundamental aspects of the African cultures as a basis for aiding their educational development.

HRAZDIL, DR. ANTONIN. Středni školství ve dvanácti státech evropských. Praha, Státni nakladelství, 1934.

190 p.

Detailed description of secondary education in Belgium, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Rumania, Russia, Switzerland, and Yugoslavia.

INQUIRY INTO THE EDUCATION BUDGET OF CERTAIN STATES. In International Bureau of Education Bulletin, 5: 144-145, October 1931.

A table showing for 54 countries the total national budget, the national education budget, and the percentage that the latter is of the former.

INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF EDUCATION. Children's Books and International Good Will. Geneva, International Bureau of Education, 1932. 243 p. Returns from 37 countries giving a list of titles of (1) books which foster world friendship among children; (2) books which are favorites with children and give a true picture of child life in each country; (3) children's classics in all countries, which constitute a common heritage of youth; (4) picture books; (5) books written by children, even in manuscript form.

Les économies dans le domaine de l'instruction publique d'après les données fournies par les ministères de l'instruction publique. Genève, Bureau International d'Éducation, 1934. 128 p.

In 1932 the bureau sent a questionnaire to many countries asking about the economies that it had been necessary for each to effect in the expenditures for education. The bulletin is made up of data from the returns of 60 political divisions.

L'Organisation de l'instruction publique dans 53 pays. Genève, Bureau International d'Éducation, 1932. 374 p.

The plan of organization of instruction in each of 53 countries is described in detail and illustrated in a graph. All graphs follow the same pattern. A brief bibliography concludes each sketch.

Travail et congés scolaires. Genève, Bureau International d' Éducation. 1933. 134 p.

A handbook that gives data in detail about school days and school vacations in 37 countries. INTERNATIONAL COLONIAL EXPOSITION OF 1931. L'Adaptation de l'enseignement dans les colonies. Paris, Henri Didier. 1932. 311 p.

Deals with education in the colonies of France, British Malaysia, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Portugal, and the outlying parts of the United States. JAMES, CONCHA ROMERO. A bibliography on education in Latin America. Washington, D.C., Pan-American Union, March 1932. 24 p.

Includes references to material on historical background; general references;

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Education in East Africa. New York, Phelps-Stokes 1924. 416 p.

A similar study of east, central, and south Africa.

JoWITT, HAROLD. Principles of educa

tion for African teachers. London, Longmans, Green & Co., ltd., 1932. 216 p.

Written as a text to be used in training teachers of African native children, especially the Bantu youth. Includes a chapter on the aims of African education.

KANDEL, I. L. Comparative education. New York, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1933. 922 p.

Presents a broad, clear conception of the field and purpose of comparative education and applies it to a study of England, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and the United States with respect to: The state and education; the organization of national systems of education; administration of education; elementary education; preparation of elementary-school teachers; secondary education; and secondary-school teachers.

History of secondary education. A study in the development of liberal education. New York, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1930. 577 p.

The author traces the early history of secondary education to the extent that it influenced later developments and gives special attention to the causes of the present unrest in secondary education in European countries and the United States.

KNIGHT, EDGAR W., editor. Reports on European education. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1930. 319 p.

Of historical value. Contains John Griscom's report on education in several

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European countries in 1818 and 1819; selections from Victor Cousin's report on public instruction in Prussia made in 1831; and Calvin Stowe's report on elementary education in Europe, made to the Ohio Assembly in 1837. LAMBIE, MARGARET. The foreign teacher; his legal status as shown in treaties and legislation, with special reference to the United

States. New York, Institute of International Education, 1932. 103 p.

Written to advocate the conclusion of treaties on matters relating to education between the United States and other countries.

LUOKEY, GEORGE W. A. Outline of education systems and school conditions in Latin America. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1923. Bureau of Education, Bulletin, 1923, No. 44. 111 p.

Gives a brief account of education in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba, Central America, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Salvador, Costa Rica, and Panama. The main facts for each country are given and there is a diagram indicating the various steps by which a pupil may proceed from one school to another. OLDHAM, JOSEPH H. and GIBSON, B. D. The remaking of man in Africa. London, Oxford University Press, 1931. 185 p.

A survey of Christian education in Africa.

PRESCOTT, DANIEL A. Education and international relations. A study of the social forces that determine the influence of education. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1930. 168 p.

Written after years of observation and research in Europe, the study is intended to reveal the social forces that determine the spirit of the schools and condition the thinking of the teachers and pupils so that they form certain attitudes.

ROMAN, FREDERICK WILLIAM. The new education in Europe. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1930. 478 p.

Describes recent education movements in Great Britain and Ireland,

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France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Austria, Italy, and the Union of Soviet Republics.

Ross, FRANK A.; FRY, C. LUTHER, and SIBLEY, ELBRIDGE. The Near East and American philanthropy. A survey conducted under the guidance of the General Committee of the Near East Survey. New York, Columbia University Press, 1929. 308 p.

Contains brief accounts of education in Armenia, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, Palestine, and Syria. SANDIFORD, PETER, editor. Comparative education, studies of the educational systems of six modern nations. London and Toronto, J. M. Dent & Sons, Itd., 1918. 500 p.

Accounts of education in the United States, Germany, England, France, Canada, and Denmark in the pre-war period. SCHNEIDER, FREDERICH. Internationale Pädagogik. Auslandspädagogik, Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft. In Internationale Zeitschrift für Erster Erziehungswissenschaft. Jahrgang 1931-32, Drittes Heft: 392-407.

The third of a series of articles on the history, nature, methods, and results of international education, foreign education, and comparative education. SEDGWICK, RUTH. Secondary school courses in Latin America. Washington, D.C. Pan American Union, 1928. Education No. 8. 32 p.

A cross-section of the public school systems of the Latin American republics, showing the relation of secondary to primary and higher education. The important facts given for each country are: Entrance requirements, showing years covered by primary school work; curricula, with subjects and periods per week; diplomas, showing the relation of secondary school courses to higher studies.

Teacher-training courses in Latin America. Washington, D.C. Pan American Union, 1929. Education No. 12. 41 p.

Contains a brief description of teacher-training courses in each of the Latin American countries.

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