INTRODUCTION HAVING examined with critical care nearly all the manuscript of this work, I gladly avail myself of an opportunity furnished by the Editor of the Series to help introduce to the public a most timely publication. For some years a need has been felt for an analysis of the problems of adolescent girlhood from the combined standpoints of physiology, psychology, and the growth of character through education both formal and informal. Miss Moxcey demonstrates the possession of competent knowledge in all these fields. In addition she brings to her task extraordinarily valuable and well-digested experience with girls, and likewise critical understanding of the principles and processes of religious education. The result is a book that is at once scientific, insightful, and practically helpful. I trust that it will have the wide reading that it deserves -the reading that is needed by parents and teachers in the interest of happy, wholesome young womanhood. GEORGE A. COE. |