SOURCE: A review of Pedagogical Anthropology, in Mind, No. 91, July, 1914, pp. 433-34.

In the following essay, Edgar reviews Montessori's Pedagogical Anthropology, noting that although there is little new in the collection of lectures, Montessori's enthusiasm for her subject is admirable.

This volume [Pedagogical Anthropology] comprises the lectures delivered by Dr. Montessori during a period of four years in the Pedagogic School of the University of Rome.

In view of the great fame which her method of educating young children has won for the author, we opened the book with high expectations which have only partly been fulfilled. There is really little that is new in the volume, yet it glows with the enthusiasm of a teacher whose aim is not merely truth, but the betterment of society through its influence. Detailed technical discussions of such subjects as the principles of General Biology, Craniology, the Thorax, etc., are interspersed...