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School-books.

The University Shakespeare : King John. Edited by Benjamin Dawson, B.A. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—This is one of a series of the plays edited and annotated by members of the......

A First History Of The English People. Vol. Ii. By

Amy Baker. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—A simple and interesting account of the period between Edward I. and Elizabeth. The book will be certain to interest children in the......

French Accidence And Essentials Of Syntax. By Eugene...

(Rivingtons.)—In spite of the numerous French school- books which are continually issuing from the Press in this country, the number of grammars of first rank can still be......

Dates Made Easy. By J. H. Hawley. (relfe Brothers.)—there...

in our opinion, nothing so unsatisfactory and unremunerative from an educational point of view, as the learning by rote strings of dates, which to some is an easy, to others an......