Page:Works of Heinrich Heine 05.djvu/441

MR. WILLIAM HEINEMANN'S LIST. 5 Ube Great jEbucators. A new series, in which the leading movers in educational thought from the ear'iest time to the present day, by writers of wide educational experience, will be issued under the general title of " The Great Educators." Much has been written of the great philosophical systems, and of the lives of great thinkers and founders of schools of philosophical speculation, yet nothing has so far been done to give a picture of what is at least of equal importance, the educational effects of these systems in the special periodical ethics of the world. It is not surprising that these ethics, as applied to education, should change with rdigions, with philosophical sys'.ems, even with periodical revo lutions, and historical development. But it is surprising that no one has thought the subject sufficiently important to fix from time to time, the point of view obtaining as to these educational ethics. It is now proposed in a limited number of volumes, devoted more to the systems and to the teachings of the greatest educators of the world than to their lives, to show the different points of view, from which races and times and climatic influences have determined the education of mankind. The volumes will therefore range from Aristotle to Dr. Arnold of Rugby. The following ar at present contemplated :—. ARISTOTLE, and the Ancient Educational Ideals. By Thomas Davidson, M.A., LL.D. ALCUIN, and the Rise of the Christian Schools. By Professor Andrew F. West, Ph.D. ABELARD, and the Origin and Early History of Uni versities. By Jules Gabriel Compayre, Professor in the Faculty of Toulouse. LOYOLA, and the Educational System of the Jesuits. By Rev. Thomas Hughes, S.J. ROUSSEAU; or, Education according to Nature. HERBART; or, Modern German Education. PESTALOZZI; or, the Friend and Student of Children. FROEBEL. By H. Courthope Bowen, M.A. HORACE MANN, and Public Education in the United States. By Nicholas M jkray Butler, Ph.D. BELL, LANCASTER, and ARNOLD; or, the English Education of To-Day> By J. G. Fitch, LL.D., Her Majesty's In spector of Schools. Each subject will form a complete volume of about 300 pages, crown 8vo. The first two volumes, "Aristotle" and " Loyola," are in the press, others are in an advanced state, and will be issued at short intervals.