Nature and Health: A Popular Treatise on the Hygiene of the Person and the Home |
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Nature and Health; a Popular Treatise on the Hygiene of the Person and the Home Edward Curtis No preview available - 2012 |
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Page 294 - Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty of thy voice. And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.
Page 309 - JAMES'S TALKS ON PSYCHOLOGY TALKS TO TEACHERS ON PSYCHOLOGY AND TO STUDENTS ON SOME OF LIFE'S IDEALS. By WILLIAM JAMES, Professor in Harvard University, Author of "The Principles of Psychology,
Page xi - kerchief, and I in my cap, Had just settled our brains for a long winter's nap, When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
Page 307 - The book remains a good one ; it contains so much that is charming, so much that is admirably in tune with the spirit of childhood. Moreover, the few colored decorations with which it is supplied are extremely artistic, and the cover is exceptionally attractive." Churchman ; *' Beautiful in its gay cover, laid paper, and decorated title-page. Mr. Edward Verrall Lucas has made the selections with nice discrimination and an intimate knowledge of children's needs and capacities. Many of the selections...
Page 309 - Psychology and the Teaching Art ; The Stream of Consciousness ; The Child as a Behaving Organism ; Education and Behavior ; The Necessity of Reactions ; Native and Acquired Reactions ; What the Native Reactions Are; The Laws of Habit; The Association of Ideas ; Interest; Attention ; Memory ; The Acquisition of Ideas ; Apperception ; The Will ; The Gospel of Relaxation ; On a Certain Blindness in Human Beings ; What Makes Life Significant.
Page 307 - A BOOK OF VERSES FOR CHILDREN Over 200 poems representing some 80 authors. Compiled by EV LUCAS. With decorations by FD BEDFORD. Revised edition. $2.00. Library edition, $1.00 net. " We know of no other anthology for children so complete and well arranged.
Page 307 - ... Maurice Hewlett, Isaak Walton, William Barnes. Herrick, Gervase Markham, Dobson, Lamb, Milton, Whittier, etc. Critic: "The selections tell of farewells to winter and the town, of spring and the beauty of the earth, of lovers, of sun and cloud and the windy hills, of birds, blossoms, and trees— in fact of everything that makes work well-nigh impossible when the world of nature begins to wake from its long sleep." Dial : " A very charming book from cover to cover. . . . Some things are lacking,...
Page 307 - * A child could scarcely g^et a choicer range of verse to roll over in his mind, or be coaxed to it by a prettier volume. ... A book to take note of against Christmas and all the birthday gift times of the whole year round.
Page 66 - The combustion of proteid within the organism yields a solid ash which must be raked down by the liver and throyto out by the kidneys. Now when this task gets to be over-laborious, the laborers are likely to go on strike. The grate, then, is not properly raked ; clinkers form, and slowly the smothered fire glows dull and dies
Page 200 - Cosmetic, it hath parts civil, and parts effeminate: for cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.