New Releases by Dorothy Canfield

Includes excerpts from Why Stop Learning and a reprint of an editorial by the National Community Foundation "commenting on its plan that seeks to solve the problem suggested by Dorothy Canfield" which appeared in The Evening World on February 25, 1927 -- [p. 5]

Mary Bascomb, a perfectionist who specializes in ordering other people''s lives, is shocked into reexamining her ideals when her idolized son marries and brings to their home a cheap, vulgar girl. After their daughter, Dids, is born, Mary fights for Dids to free her from her mother''s influence. By the end of the novel, Dids has grown up to be a fine young woman on her way to the university, and Mary has gained the maturity she needs to be a friend to her son''s wife.

It is now a year since the publication of "The Montessori Mother," a year which has brought to the author of that volume a great mass of correspondence and innumerable personal interviews with American mothers interested in the new ideas about the education of young children. This first-hand experience with a wide circle of searchers for information has shown me the need, in the case of mothers untrained in educational methods, of a more concrete and definite and less philosophical presentation of the ideas of the great Italian teacher. This unpretentious manual is designed to meet that need and to be used by mothers of young children. It is also hoped that teachers will receive valuable hits from the suggestions in its pages, which their greater experience and professional training will enable them to expand into school-room exercises. - Foreword.