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Focuses on the production of commercial dictionaries, which are designed to make money for the publisher of the owner of a publishing company. Changes in the publishing sector; Reasons many commercial dictionaries have high standards; Function of a commercial general-purpose dictionary; Improvement of the standards of dictionary-making.

The article presents a list of books, which serve as references on foreign education. The publications include "Bilingualism and Mental Development", "Annuaire international de l'éducation et de l'enseignement, 1937", "Documents officiels sur l'enseignement del la psychologie dans la préparation des maÎtres primaires et secondaires."

The article focuses on the vocabulary analysis of the selection of preprimers and primers. Based from the analysis, preprimers and primers differ, with respect to the total number of different words contained and the number of words with fewer than four presentations. There is also great variation in the extent to which both are identical. In addition, the sequence in which the books are read is an important factor in the progress of the child, due to the extent to which they are identical.

This article reports that the State Board of Education of Connecticut has recently issued a special bulletin entitled "A Manual of the Social Studies for Secondary Schools," in which is outlined in some detail the courses of study in the social sciences, the materials and methods to be used in initiating and conducting such studies, and suggestions for the selection of reference books. The Committee on Social Studies in Secondary Schools remarked that a social study must be required each year, so that in the growing boy or girl there may develop in conjunction with the life of the school and without interruption a constantly deepening understanding of social relationships and responsibilities.

Enlisted men does read a good deal more and a good deal better books than many people think they does. What is liked to read and how the Army supplies it are detailed in this study of books at war. Men who rarely looked at a book before have become habitual readers in the Army. This, too, is especially true of soldiers overseas. Because of physical isolation, conditions of weather and terrain, the foreign language of the native population, or the nature of their work, they are often cut off from other forms of recreation. The problem of getting books to soldiers overseas has been met by the Army Special Services Division's Library Branch, with the over-all responsibility for providing reading material and library service for soldiers. With the exception of the Armed Services Editions and overseas editions of magazines, reading matter may be sent to a theater only in response to requisitions approved by the theater commander. The specially manufactured paperbound books known as Armed Services Editions were devised to fill the gaps in the distribution of normal-sized books and to insure that all troops overseas were regularly and amply supplied with reading material.