The English String Teachers Association (EST A) was organized 8 years ago and was modeled after the ASTA. They recently published a 128 page volume containing 25 articles which represent the best reports, speeches and articles that appeared in the past issues of their journal which comes out three times annually. This reviewer was impressed with the quality and variety of these essays and recommends this volume highly. Four articles are devoted to great teachers of the past: Dr. D.C. Dounis, Adila Fachiri, Carl Flesch and Enrica Mainardi. In each case these articles were written by a former student and admirer and, in spite of all being complimentary and biased, they are enlightening. Three editorials are included. One was called "Playing without Music" and contained an amusing anecdote attributed to Harold Craxton. When a student announced that he intended to play without music, Mr. Craxton replied, "Heaven forbid! Dispense with the score, by all means, but please let us have the music!" Another editorial titled "Feeders and Cultivators" described the importance of continually improving our methods of teaching and encouraged us to study the methods of other teachers. The third editorial called the "Bow-Wow" school, criticizes the teaching methods that let pupils play with the maximum "fun" and a minimum of constraint.

HAVE before me the current Volume of Proceedings of the Music Teachers National Association. This association, organized in 1876, has since 1906 issued an annual yearbook, and it is no exaggeration to say that these twentyeight volumes contain the finest source material easily accessible for the student of American music education dealing with the present century. They cover all fields of music teaching, private and public, college and conservatory. Dipping into the present volume at random as I did, the reader feels at once a growing interest for two reasons -the writers are highly qualified to represent their subject, and they know how to write. The book reads itself. Being interested in church music, organ, violin, voice and general music study, I read the articles on these subjects by Dunham, McCutcheon, Rosborough, Skilton, Titus, Burleigh, Samctini, Hanson, Strunk, Butler, Leighton, Morgan, Buck, Wilcox and BrinkmanI cannot mention them all-but these names certainly stand for authority. The article on the use of syllables in music reading by Karl W. Gehrkens should be read by all who have any intention of discussing this controversial subject. The second part of the book is devoted to committee reports, handled, not in a dry and matter-of-fact fashion, but so as to make clear the issues involved in such matters as American Music, Community Music, Musical Libraries, Organ and Choral Music, Applied Music Study, and Tests and Measurements. They are the result of study and research. There is also a splendidly written report by the secretary, D. M. Swarthout, giving a resume of the doings of the convention at Lincoln. This book should be in general circulation among music teachers, and a copy should be in every library.-EDWARD B. BIRGE.

Reprinted with some condensations from the October and December, 1921, issues of this magazine (Volume VIII, Numbers 1 and 2), this is the text of an address prepared for the annual convention of the Music Supervisors National Conference held at St. Joseph, Missouri. The original title of the article was "Is Instrumental Music in Public Schools Justified by Actual Results?"

ESTHETIC RESPONSE as here used is a term signifying broadly the response evoked by perception or contemplation of any object of regard as a thingin-itself, carrying its whole meaning within itself. This is notably the kind of response evoked by an object of art or some beauty of nature. The title above implies that such responses have value in human life, and that our philosophy should recognize and define the nature of that value. Scientific interest as here used is in contrast to