College History of India. By J. Talboys Wheeler. (Macmillan and
Co.)—Mr. Wheeler has attempted a great deal in this small volume, nothing less than a History reaching from the Hindoo Epics to the Burmese War, and this in a little over two hundred pages. Nevertheless, he has attained some success, and this is saying a good deal of an Indian History. Once or twice a character appears, as it were, without an introduction; but, on the whole, the vast number of historical characters which complicate Indian history so much, are kept remarkably well defined and differentiated. The difficulty, in a small History at least, of "running" two or three different empires or monarchies, and perhaps a far-sweeping invasion, at the same time, is, of course, great. Still, the student will find, we think, that this History enables him to obtain a very fair grasp of the Indian past.
Of text-books dealing with mathematical subjects we have received :—A Treatise on the Integral Calculus. Part I. By Ralph A. Roberts, M.A. (Hodges and Figgie, Dublin; Longmans, London.) —This first portion contains "an elementery account of elliptics, integrals, and applications to plane curves."—Higher Algebra : a Sequel to "Elementary Algebra for Schools." By H. S. Hall, M.A., and S. R. Knight, M.A. (Macmillan.)—An Elementary Text-Book of Dynamics and Hydrostatics. By R. H. Pinkerton, B.A. (Blackie and Son.)—The Elements of Graphical Arithmetic and Graphical Statics. By John G. Gray and George Lawson, M.A. (W. Collins and Sons.) —A Treatise on Algebra, by Charles Smith, M.A. (Macmillan), designed for the higher classes of schools and the junior students in the Universities.—From the same publishers, also, we have received An Elementary Treatise on Kinematics and Dynamics, by James Gordon Macgregor, M.A.—Easy Lessons in the Differential Calculus, by Richard A. Proctor (Longmans) ; and from the same author and publisher, First Steps in Geometry.—Elementary Hydrostatics, by Hamblin Smith, "a new edition."—Mensuration, Plain and Solid, by F. S. Brabant, M.A.—The Harper Euclid, Book I. (Rivingtons.)—Euclid's Elements of Geometry. Arranged by A. E. Layng. (Blackie and Son.)
Xenophon's Anabasis, Book ii. With Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary by A. S. Walpole, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—All the assistance that could possibly be needed, perhaps, indeed, rather more, has been supplied by Mr. Walpole in his notes. In addition to this he has added a vocabulary. We are not quite sure about the wisdom of this step, when the book is intended for school use. It would perhaps have been better to have had notes and vocabulary in a separate volume to the text. Beyond this there is little to find fault with in Mr. Walpole's work.
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