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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Pedagogical Library and the Books of Reference: Compliments James Mac Alister, Superintendent Public Schools No apology, it is presumed, is needed for what may seem an undue preference for the French writers on education. The striking progress recently made in public education by our sister European republic has attracted marked attention all over the world. This advance has been accompanied by an awakening among her leading publicists and educators, that has borne fruit in a goodly array of works relating to education in both its theoretical and practical aspects, and possessing all those qualities so characteristic of the French mind in every depart ment of literary effort. While the French, like all the rest of the world, have been borrowers in education from the Germans, it must be admitted that of late years they have been producing books of great pedagogical value. These are quite fully represented in this library, and it is believed, are not one of its least important features. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.