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    This document summarizes a review of the book "Cuentos Castellanos", which is a collection of Spanish stories adapted for early reading. The reviewer critiques the book, finding that about half of the stories are of little value or interest. Of the remaining stories, only a few are considered high quality, such as "Adios, Cordera!" and "El Talisman". The reviewer also finds faults with the editorial work, noting many omissions and inaccuracies in the vocabulary. Most seriously, the reviewer believes the editors failed to properly remove objectionable content from the stories that could embarrass or discomfort learners. Overall, the reviewer concludes the book is an undesirable publication that could prejudice learners against

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    BOOK REVIEWS.
    RECENT

    SPANISH

    LITERATURE.

    Cuentos Castellanos. Selected and edited, with Notes and Vocabulary, by MAY
    D. CARTER AND CATHARINEMALLOY. Boston: D. C. Heath & Co.
    Pp. i-vi+ I-I26 (text), I29-200 (notes and vocabulary).
    TEACHERS of Spanish among us will welcome a good collection of Spanish stories
    adapted to early reading. One or more are promised us, but none has yet appeared
    quite up to the desired standard. The present one is exceptionally weak in making
    good any claims to merit, or any legitimate reason for its appearance.
    It comprises eight selections, of which half are of trifling value, being virtually
    without interest and without profit. Of those that are left the longest is Valera's
    well-known fairy tale, El Pdjaro Verde. This at least has the virtue of movement
    and of a fine literary style, even though its vogue as a Spanish theme be much overdone among us. We do not think its merit high enough to warrant the frequent reduplication to which it has been subjected among us, since it has little in it that may be
    considered intrinsically Spanish. The last selection-and one of the longest in the
    series-is a specimen from Castelar dealing with the perennial subject of bull-fighting
    (Una Corrida de Toros), which ends in an insipid love-story that awkwardly articulates with the main narrative. The literature of tauromachy is ill adapted to any
    grade of reading unless supplied with clear and abundant editorial explanation of the
    numerous technical terms involved-a desideratum that is far from being realized in
    the present case. The only numbers in the series free from some well-founded objections are the third, iAdi6s, Cordera! a touching story by Leopoldo Alas; and the seventh, El Talisman, a readable story by Sefiora Pardo Bazan. To these, the Pdjaro
    Verde might be thrown in to fill out. From this summary it will be seen that after the
    examiner has reconstituted the table of contents -with which the book is not providedhe will find little to repay him for his analysis thereof.
    The editorial workmanship is of a correspondingly low level. The register of
    all the sins of omission and commission would be a long and tedious one. The vocabulary in particular abounds in omissions and inaccuracies, upward of a hundred of these
    having been noted after only a cursory inspection of the text. The notes fall into
    the well-worn vice of telling us what we already know, and discreetly gliding in silence
    over what we do not know and are in urgent need of knowing. But the most serious
    blemish in the book, and one rarely committed by modern-language editors, is the
    lack of proper care in freeing the text from objectionable passages and expressions.
    Not that we affect any excessive punctiliousness on this score. But it is obvious to
    all that some things which may be freely allowed in good literature are not to be tolerated in an elementary language text destined for intensive study, in which every sentence and every word are liable to rigid analysis. The present editors have been
    strangely remiss in this respect, leaving in the text matter that, in the writer's own
    personal experience, can cause only embarrassment and discomfort to both learner
    and teacher.
    753

    754

    THE SCHOOL REVIEW

    The book is an undesirable publication. Many of the mere errors referred to


    can, and doubtless will, be corrected by the publishers. But it is doubtful whether
    the book will come out of any such revision with its character substantially improved.
    Its harmfulness exceeds the mere negative one of not possessing the qualifications
    necessary in a useful instrument of instruction. It has a far-reaching positive one:
    it cannot but prejudice beginners against Spanish letters, if-as they will naturally
    assume-these are to be judged as a whole by the representative selections before
    them in the present collection.
    R. E. BASSETT.
    UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS.

    Elements of Political Economy. By J. SHIELD NICHOLSON. New York: The


    Macmillan Co., i903.
    Pp. xvii+538.
    IT has long been the hope of those familiar with Professor Nicholson's larger
    work on the Principles of Political Economy, the three volumes of which were published
    at intervals during the last decade, that the author would some time write a briefer
    and more elementary treatise on the same subject. That hope has been fulfilled with
    the publication of the present volume, and the Elements, while much too difficult a
    text-book for secondary schools, will be favorably received by those who have not yet
    found a satisfactory text to use in college courses in elementary economics. The
    book certainly compares favorably with those that are now used in our American
    colleges-Laughlin's Mill, Bullock's Introduction, Davenport's Outlines, Hadley's
    Economics, and Walker's Advanced Course. It is more modern in spirit and in doctrine than Mill, and more difficult and therefore more adequate than Walker. It is,
    however, in just these ways that the Elements is itself inferior to Professor Seager's
    new Introduction to Economics, published more recently by the same firm. But for
    English students Professor Nicholson's work will be especially valuable because of its
    references to English economic history and English economic conditions.
    The Elements is not a mere abstract of the author's larger work, but it follows
    the same general plan and method of treatment, and differs more because of omissions
    than from any radical alterations in the text. Professor Nicholson still follows Mill,
    as he did in the Principles-a fact that favorably commends the book to those who
    believe that the student's best introduction to economics is from the classical point of
    view. In the present volume there are the thoroughness of exposition and the logical
    arrangement that make Mill so valuable for disciplinary purposes, and, combined
    with these, the changes and additions needed to put the student in touch with the more
    recent development of the science. To see how true this is, one has only to read, for
    example, the chapter on "The Quantity Theory of Money," or any chapter of the
    book on "Distribution," and he will find that Professor Nicholson has thoroughly
    modernized the classical treatment of the subject, and at the same time refrained from
    adopting any radical or not generally accepted doctrines, such as the assimilation of
    land to capital. The new analysis of "Profits and Labor Cost" is especially valuable
    to one who wishes to teach a modernized classical theory of economics.
    There are those who will regret Professor Nicholson's evident unwillingness to
    discard the old divisions of the subject; for we still have five books, dealing, in this case,
    with "Production and Consumption," "Distribution," "Exchange," "Economic
    Progress," and the "Economic Functions of Society." The question might be raised

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