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&Boor, AND Crass Boons.-In "Arnold's Science Series" (E. Arnold) we

have Magnetism and Electricity, by J. Paley Yorke, "an Elementary Treatise for Junior Students" (3s. 6d.) - Newton's Laws of Motion, by P. G. Tait, MA. (A. and C. Black, is. 6d. net), is intended to be "a short and pointed summary of the more important features of the basis of the subject"- Vergil tEneid VI., by A. Sidgwick, M.A. (Cambridge University Press), is an abridgment of Mr. Sidgwick's large Cambridge edition of Virgil. -In the same "Cambridge Series for Schools and Colleges" we have Lord Macaulay's Essay on Milton, with Intro- duction and Notes by J. H. Flather, M.A. (1s. 6d.)--A Primer of French Verse, edited by Frederic Spencer, M.A. (same publishers, 3s.), is a volume of verse extracts from French authors of repute, with introduction explaining the ;netrical rules observed in them.—Conties Chows, by Francois Coppee, edited by Margaret F. Skeat (Macmillan and Co.), belongs to " Siepmann's Advanced French Series."—In the " Dinglewood Shakespeare Manuals" (J. Heywood) we have As You Like It, with Questions and Notes by Stanley Wood, M.A. (1s.)—The Teaching of Geography in Switzerland and North Italy, by Joan Berenice Reynolds (C. J. Clay and Sons, 2s. 6d.), is a report prepared by the writer as a "Gilchrist. Travelling Student."