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Some School Books

The Poetic Procession (Blackwell, Is.), a beginner's introduction' to English poetry, by J. F. Roxburgh does no more than run through a very rough history of the principal......

There Is A Tendency At The Moment To Underrate Our

educational progress and to clamour for the speeding up of the machine, regardless of costs or consequences. Those who are impatient would do well to read Mr. J. G. Legge's ,......

Litterae Humattiores

EVERY time a new batch of Loeb Classics appears our admir- ation of the magnificent conception and execution of the Library is renewed. The voice of criticism is silenced, and......

The Average Text-book Of English History Used To Be Very

forbidding—an example of the printed matter that Lamb called Biblia Abiblia." But no such adjective can be applied to the latest text-book by Mr. C. H. Marten of Eton and Mr. E.......

Finding That The History Of Their School Had;not Been...

for a century or more, the members of the-Merebant- Taylors' School Archaeological Society set to work to , produce one bk co-operative effort, The result is a pleasant and......

General Knowledge Questions

Oca, weekly prize of One guinea',fOr the best thirteen QnestioliS submitted is aVraided this week so MisO G. I Searight,' Pembroke Road, Cliftrin, for the following Questions on......