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Life, How -it Comes. By Stephen Reid-Heyman (Mrs. Laurence Parsons,

M.D., Ch.B.). (Oxford : Basil Blackwell. 5s.)A book- on biology for children. A knowledge of the sex organs of the human, body is led up to bya dear, detailed account of the reproductive machinery of plants •and the lower animals. The scientific, or rather the physical instruction, is excellent and admirably conveyed. Upon the question of the duty of men and women to the community, and upon the spiritual and aesthetic aspects of love, Mrs. Parsons does not write so well, but the book could be supplemented by a parent or teacher from Miss Maude Royden's Sex and Common •Sense and from the rich stores of idealized sex teaching of the world's fairy tales and mythology.