FOR PUZZLED PARENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 106, 31 October 1931, Page 19

FOR PUZZLED PARENTS

Changes in mental outlook have been so rapid that many of us feel wo cannot, offer to our children the very imperfect and. inaccurate approaches by which we were Jed to knowledge. The old idea that anything will do for childhood is vigorously rejected. It is here that Messrs, A. and C. Black come to the . rescuo with an attractive new series of books under the general title "Tho How-aud:Why Series." These are, planned .to kelp, tho .many: young parents who are perplexed by the difficulty of introducing their children, to modern ideas of knowledge and culture.

This scries goes to writers of adult authority for its -textbooks: -Professor Lascclles Abercrombie writes on."The How and Why of Poetry," Mr. C. E. M. Joad on "The Story of Civilisation," Miss Kosuliiid Murray, daughter of Professor Gilbert Murray, on "The Crocks," Mr. Martin Armstrong on "Painting," Mr. J. A. Coward on "The Life of Birds,"and so on. These names show the serious intention behind the- "series. It is tho theory held by Mr. Gerald Bullott, tho general editor of tho series, that tho habit of answering • childish questions with myths, simplifications that arc false, -/id lazy evasions is ono insupportable to the present Mgc. The "How-arid-Why Series" offers them the nearest we can get, at tho moment, to truth;