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Deductive Logic. By St. George Stock, M.A. (Longmans.)— " My

object," says the author, "has been to produce a work which should be as thoroughly representative of the present state of the logic of the Oxford Schools as any of the text-books of the past." He brings to his task the experience of many years as a "coach." —Realistic Elementary Geography, by W. G. Baker, M.A. (Blackie and Son), a manual in which geography is taught by picture and plan, likely, we should think, by its practical applica- tion to actual mental needs, to be very aseful.—Geography of the British Isles. By Archibald Geikie. (Macmillan.) —First Elements of Experimental Geometry. Translated from the French of Paul Bert. (Cassell and Co.)—Algebraic Factors. By Dr. W. T. Knight. (Blackie and Son.)—Companion to Hamblin Smith's Algebra. By W. F. Pelton. (Rivingtons.)—Elementary Mathe- matics. (Collins and Sons.)—This is a volume especially intended "to meet the requirements of the Science and Art Department," and contains the necessary amount of arithmetic, algebra as fax as adfected quadratics, and Euclid i.