5 FEBRUARY 1910, Page 29

Handbook to the School Calendar. (J. M. Dent and Sons

25. 6d. net.)—The Education Committee of the London County Council has had a calendar prepared in which every day is marked with one event or more. The subject for the day is announced on a card hung in the school hall, and a lesson upon it is given. It is by way of preparation for this lesson that this volume has been prepared. January 19th, for example, is marked with "John Wilkes expelled from the House of Commons," not an easy event, by the way, to lecture upon. The Handbook leaves it judiciously alone, but gives material for the 20th, "Death of John Howard," and for the 22nd, "Defence of Rorke's Drift." The "Calendar of Heroes" noticed in these columns on January 22nd might be used to supplement this volume.