Bugle Calls of Liberty, Our National Reader of Patriotism
REVIEWS AND CRITICISM.
Compiled by Gertrude Van Duyn Southworth and Paul Mayo Payne, M.A. byracuse, N. Y.: Iroquois Pub. Co., 1917. Pp. xii+179. Illus.
It is not the habit of The Psychological Clinic to review elementary school books, but the unusual merit of this reader justifies a departure from custom. “Bugle Calls of Liberty” is more than a text book for teaching reading. It is a valuable piece of testing material, which can be used in the clinical examination of adults, as well as children from the fifth grade up. Especially in the testing and teaching of articulation has the need been felt for a book of this kind, whose emotional power could be relied upon to bring out, for instance, the best and the worst phases of a chronic stammer.
The collection opens very appropriately with Patrick Henry’s speech to the Virginia Assembly on March 23,1775, more apt todky than ever in its challenge,? “Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?” The Declaration of Independence is here, and Franklin’s speech for the Constitution; Daniel Webster’s oration on “Liberty and Union;” two of Abraham Lincoln’s short and perfect addresses; Viviani’s speech on the Battle of the Marne, and Lloyd George’s “Through Terror to Triumph.” A few poems are included among the prose,?”The Star Spangled Banner,” “The Blue and the Gray,” and “Barbara Frietchie.” President Wilson’s message of April 2, 1917, has a rightful place here, with its memorable words,?”But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things we have always carried nearest our hearts .” Lastly comes Secretary Lansing’s address at Madison Barracks on July 29,1917, when he said to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps,?”There is no higher praise that can be bestowed upon a soldier of the Republic than that he served his country faithfully and trusted in his God. Such I earnestly hope will be the praise to which each one of you will be entitled when peace returns to this suffering earth and mankind rejoices that the world is made safe for democracy.”
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