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We have received Sonnenschein's Special-Merit Readers. Stand- ard III. (W.

Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Notes, illustrations, and glossaries help to make what seems a careful selection of extracts, both prose and verse, attractive and useful. There are one or two poems in Scotch ; why not take some in Dorsetshire, from Mr. Barnes' volumes?—Book IV. of Chambers's Historical Readers (W. and R. Chambers) is the last of the series, and takes in the history of Eneland from 1688 to 1882. From the same publishers we have also .3 Graduated Readers, Book III. Each reading is supplied with a glossary and exercises.