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Practical Education. By Charles G. Leland. (Whittaker and Co.)—Mr. Leland,

who was at one time Director of the Public Industrial Art School at Philadelphia, United States, has a good right to speak. His subject is one of difficulty, not so much how to educate, as how to awaken the faculties which are to be educated, to show, "if possible, how memory may be created, quickness of perception awakened, and the constructive power formed." The book is divided into five parts, which bear the following titles : "On Industrial Art in Education, &c.," " On Developing Memory," "On Creating Quickness of Perception," "Eye-Memory," "On Taking an Interest." Four appendices complete a most useful volume.