The Behavior of Young Children By Ethel B. Waring and Marguerite Wilker, Professors of Child Guidance,  Cornell University, with Introduction by Patty Smith Hill, Professor of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Pp.  121. The Behavior of Young Children. II. Dressing—Toilet—Washing. By Ethel B. Waring and Marguerite Wilker, with Introduction by Patty Smith Hill. Published by  Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Pp.  151.

These two little books are unique in their way. They make no pretense to profound psychology nor to evaluating conduct upon the basis of future possibilities of personality development. They deal with the concrete behavior of young children of the kind that every mother has to deal with constantly almost every day, and discuss it as to its desirability, from an obvious commonsense point of view. The first volume deals with eating and sleeping behavior, the second with dressing and toilet behavior. The whole treatment is made just as simple as possible and as brief as possible, so that the average mother can get some suggestions as to how to deal with the practical issues with which she is constantly confronted, such issues as the regularity or irregularity of the intervals of feeding, learning or refusing to learn to drink from a cup, learning the use of the fork, eating the dinner first and the dessert afterwards, and a thousand other homely examples of everyday life in the nursery. The books may be commended for what they try to do, namely, to help the average mother. That particular thing they do well.

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