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If The Amount Of History Teaching In Our Schools Is

com- mensurate with the output of school histories by cur presses, then the extent is indeed great. A pleasing feature of the books submitted is their correlation of English......

Ginn's New Hudson Shakespeare Is A Series Of Interest. Good

and attractive readers for middle forms abound.. Book I. of the Clarendon Readers in Literature and Science, edited by Mr. J. C. Smith (Oxford, 2s. 6d.), is excellent. A. and C.......

Some Educational Books

Sin. L. A. SELBY-BIGGE'S The Board of Education (Putnam, 7s. 6d.) is an interesting account of the work of a much-too- frequently-abused Government department. A complementary......

Ordinary Differential Equations, By E. C. Ince (longmans,...

research of high quality. To say that the theories of Lie and Klein receive full treatment is to mention only a very small part of its scope. Appendix A, discussing the history......

The Workers' Educational Associa- Tion : What It Is And

What It Stands For THE " W.E.A.," as it is popularly called, is a widespread federation of Educational and Working People's organizations and institutions. At its inception in......

A Very Small Book, School Prayers, By Mr. J. B.

Goodliffe (Student Christian Movement, 2s. 6d.), must emphatically be commended to the attention of head-masters and head- mistresses. It is a set of original petitions rising......

• Seven Science Publications Deserve To Be Singled Out....

Macmillan's .X-Rays and Electrons, by Mr. A. H. Compton (25s.), Theory of Vibrating Systems and Sound, by Mr. I. B. Crandall (15s.), Physics for Colleges, by Mr. N. Ni. Sheldon......