Part 19 (1/2)

”There are scores of good books,” I replied, ”but no teacher can afford to buy them”

”I know,” he said crossly; ”I've had a roith the Income Tax people I asked for a rebate of ten pounds for necessary school books, and they wouldn't allow it, although I'ets a rebate for the aree that it is unjust,” I said, ”but the new Income Tax proposals alloenty pounds a year for teachers' books”

”Just tell us what you would advise a teacher to spend his twenty quid on,” said Macdonald

”It depends on his tastes,” I said ”If his subject is History he will buy history books; if his subject is behaviour, he'll buy psychology books”

”Give us an idea of your own library,” said Duncan

I sat down and wrote out a list from memory

It ran as follows:--

BOOKS ON EDUCATION:-- _The Play Way_, by Caldwell Cook

_The Path to Freedom in the School_, by Norht Be_, by Edmond Holmes

Montessori's three volumes

_An Adventure in Education_, by J H Simpson

BOOKS ON PSYCHO-analYSIS AND PSYCHOLOGY: Freud's _Interpretation of Dreay of Everyday Life, Three Contributions to the sexual Theory_

Jung's _Psychology of the Unconscious, Studies in Word association, analytical Psychology_

Frink's _Morbid Fears and Coy_

Morton Prince's _The Unconscious_

Pfister's _The Psycho-analytic Method_

Ernest Jones' _Psycho-analysis_

Ferenczi's _Contributions to Psycho-analysis_

Wilfred Lay's _The Child's Unconscious Mind_

Moll's _The sexual Life of the Child_

Adler's _The Neurotic Constitution_

Bernard Hart's _The Psychology of Insanity_

CROWD PSYCHOLOGY:-- _The Crowd in Peace and War_, Martin Conway

_Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War_, Trotter

_The Crowd_, Gustave le Bon

GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY:-- _Psychology and Everyday Life_, Swift