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The Romance Of The Cotton Industry In England. By L.
S. Wood and A. Wilmore. (Oxford. 5s.)--Do we know that tenth-century Spain grew cotton, that the Worsley Canal came into being through the fickleness of Elizabeth Gunning, that......
The Readable School Biology, By 0. H. Latter (bell, 2s.
6d.), treats its subject sensibly and fully, not evading the question of Reproduction. Nor is it too material- istic in its conception of the nature of life.......
Apart From The Books Already Noticed, The Following Will...
attention :- In MODERN LANGUAGES :- LEs Drava our Sour. Anatole France. (Hachette. 4e.) This is an exceptionally well bound edition.-Picamus n'Isr.ANDE. Picrm Loti. (Oxford.......
The Chemical Elements And Their Com- Pounds. J. A. V.
Butler. Macmillan. 6s. SCIENCE TO-DAY : A BRIEF STUDY OF SOME OF THE PRO- BLEMS OF TO-DAY'S PHYSIC AND CHEMISTRY. P. J. L. Smith and S. J. Dale. (Blackie. 5s.)-The former book......
The World, By J. Murray (bell's Intermediate Geographies,...
aims at providing children from 11 to 15 with a general survey of the world. The scheme (being Scotch) is logical. The geography of each continent is built' - up on tht " twin......
Astronomy. H. N. Russell, R. S. Dugan, J. Q. Stewart.
(Ginn. 2 vols. 10s. 6d. each.)-This is a revision of Young's Manual of. Astronomy, and hails from Princeton University Observatory. It is flier, however, than the now......
A Book Of Ruskin. By E. M. Hewetson. (nelson. 1s.
9d.)-Ruskin often seems to this generation something of a prig and a bore. But we have not done with Ruskin yet. A biography, and extracts from Praterita, Fors Clanigera, Modern......
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