The Educator (Volume 45) - IAMPETH

BOOK REVIEWS
^ Our readers are interested in books of merit.
but especially in books of interest and value to
iwommercial teachers including books of special
edDcational value and books on business subjects.
AM such books will be briefly reviewed
. in these columns, the object being^ t« give suffijcient
description of each to
ito dete iU vala
Transcription Error Charts, by Ray
I Abiams. Published by The Gregg
Publishing Company, New York, N.
Y. Paper cover, 67 pages.
This is a supplementary pad that makes
provision for the systematic improvement of
student's transcription ability. The first
part of the pad is devoted to the rules of
English that apply to transcription, with illustrations
; the second part contains charts
error graphs that assist the student in
?writing-. Through the medium of simple
finding, correcting, and recording his transiption
errors in English, shorthand, and
irves. the graphs reveal the student's weekly
progress.
General Record Keeping, For Personal
and Business Use, by George
H. Dalrymple and P. Myers Heiges.
Published by The Gregg Publishing
Company, New York. N. Y. Cloth
cover, 181 pages.
This one-year text was designed for a course
in personal-use bookkeeping anywhere from
the ninth to the eleventh grade. The approach
consists of everyday project material,
and the treatment throughout is of a simple,
easy nature. There is little emphasis on the
technical aspects of bookkeeping, although
the material culminates in a thorough presentation
of the simple fundamentals of bookkeeping—
that understanding of the subject
that is needed by everyone.
This book should reduce the number of
failures in the bookkeeping course, and give
to every student a training that will serve
him ail through life.
The Aristocracy Service, and other
addresses, by Harry Collins Spillman,
with a foreword by Dr. J. L. Harman.
Published by The Gregg Publishing
Company, New York, N. Y. Cloth
cover, 205 pages.
This book contains a selection of inspirational
addresses delivered by the author, who
has been a newspaper reporter, educator, and
businessman, and for years has been an internationally
known public speaker. These
speeches have held great audiences of select
businessmen and professional men and women
riveted to their seats in the four corners of
the world. They are speeches that deal in a
lyrical and practical way with problems close
to every person who has a definite job to
perform. The addresses are divided into four
groups: business, education, special occasion,
lent.
Ten Popular Bookkeeping Projects,
for use with any bookkeeping text,
by Milton S. Briggs and Clyde I.
Blanchard. Published by The Gregg
Publishing Company, New York, N.
Y. Paper cover, 70 pages.
This is a group of bookkeeping projects for
use with any bookkeeping text. Their purpose
is to provide outside work of a practical
nature that will permit the student to apply
bookkeeping principles in an interesting way.
For variety, projects are given on a welfare
fund, garage, clothing company, candy
shop, fruit and vegetable business, and others.
These project* were chosen from a larger
group used as the basis for an awards and
certification service to bookkeeping students.
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You'll Like to Write Letters, by
Virginia Young. Published by The
Gregg Publishing Company, New
York, N. Y. Paper cover, 76 pages.
This is a supplementary text in business
letter writing that cavers all the principal
t( pics of the regular long course. Based on
1h-j theory that effective letter writing should
he as natural and sincere as conversation.
Through unique illustrations and an infoi-mal
discussion of the various factors of business
letter writing, the subject is made most
interesting and very practical.
On the grounds that anyone does well what
he likes to do. this author has attacked the
learning problem from the angle of developing
in the student a love for letter writing.
Brief-Form Drills, by Edith V. Bisbee.
State Teachers College, Whitewater,
Wisconsin. Published by The
Gregg Publishing Company, New
York, N. Y. Paper cover, 113 pages.
This book is a supplementary aid to the
student in learning the brief forms of Gregg
Shorthand. It is an all-shorthand reader and
dictation book that contains all the brief
forms in context, graded according to the
Gregg Shorthand Manual.
Gregg Medical Dictation Series,
Volume I, General Medicine, by Marie
Zweegman Yates. Published by The
Gregg Publishing Company, New
York, N. Y. Paper cover, 90 pages.
This is a series of dictation booklets, each
draling with some specific phase of medicine.
Volume I deals with General Medicine. Volume
II with Surgery. and^Volume III with Pediatrics.
All are the same in arrangement and
The dictation covers medical cases from the
time the patient is placed under the care of
his physician until he is discharged. Each
volume contains a glossary of medical terms
with shorthand outlines.
The object of these dictation booklets is to
pr pare the student for secretarial work in
the doctor's office, in the hospital, or any
• tht r activity associated with the world of
ho is doing engrossinj
Stern also a penman
NEW TEACHER IN DUNSMORE
COLLEGE, STAUNTON, VA.
Mrs. John Noble Maxwell was
boin in Chesterfield County, Virginia,
and received her early education in
the public and hig-h schools of that
county. She later graduated from
the State Teacher's College of Harrisonburg,
Virginia; took summer
work at William and Mary College,
Williamsburg, Virgjinia, and then continued
her educational work at the
University of Virginia, Charlottesville,
Virginia.
For a number of years she was a
teacher in the public school system
of Richmond, Virginia, and later became
connected with the administration
of Fairfax Hall in Waynesboro,
Virginia. Mrs. Maxwell was executively
connected with the operation
of this Institution, which is one of
the well-known girls' schools of the
South.
In 1939 Mrs. Maxwell completed
the Stenographic Course at Dunsmore
Business College, Staunton, Virginia,
where at the present time she
heads the Typewriting Department.
DIPLOMAS
Some very fine circulars and prints
of diplomas have been received from
D. Beauchamp of 355 South Broadway,
Los Angeles, California. Mr.
Beauchamp has been doing engrossing
work for a good many years, and
is one of the exceptionally fine en-
grossers.
Los Angeles. The cut