A BOOK LIST

The following books would be found useful for the working library of a class or club following the study of this text or for a section of the church library on the home and family.  The books marked with an asterisk are the ones which may be regarded as of first practical value to parents and others studying the development of character in the life of the family.

In addition to the titles mentioned below, the the references at the end of each chapter in this book will furnish a list of other sources of valuable material.

     I. the Institution of the Family

     C.F. and C.B.  Thwing, The Family.  Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, $1.60. 
     A historical survey of the family with a special study of its
     modern dangers and needs.

     P.T.  Forsyth, Marriage, Its Ethics and Religion.  Hodder &
     Stoughton, $1.25.  An important, popular statement of the ethics of
     marriage as the foundation of family life.

W.F.  Lofthouse, _Ethics and the Family_.  Hodder & Stoughton, $2.50 net.  The most important recent book on the family; traces its historical development, the ethical ideals involved in the institution, and discusses its present problems and perplexities.

     Katherine G. Busby, _Home Life in America_.  Macmillan, $2.00 net.  A
     popular statement of the outstanding characteristics of life in
     American homes; entertaining and informing.

     Clyde W. Votaw, _Progress of Moral and Religious Education in the
     American Home_.  Religious Education Association, $0.25.  A careful
     and comprehensive survey, of great value.

Charles A.L.  Reed, Marriage and Genetics.  Galton Press, Cincinnati, Ohio, $1.00.  A surgeon’s message on eugenics, especially on the aspects indicated in the title.  A study of the laws of human breeding.

     II.  Child Nature

     E.P.  St. John, _Child Nature and Child Nurture_.  Pilgrim Press,
     $0.50.  A textbook dealing with the nature of the child and with
     problems of his training in the home.

Irving King, _The High School Age_.  Bobbs-Merrill & Co., $1.00 net.  A study of the nature and needs of boys and girls in the first period of adolescence.  Written for all who are alive to the problems of this period as well as for school people; gives constructive suggestions for educational problems.

     George E. Dawson, _The Child and His Religion_.  The University of
     Chicago Press, $0.75.  The religious nature and needs of the child
     with some suggestions as to method.