Wise Words and Loving Deeds. By E. Condor Gray. (Marshall,
Japp, and Co.)—This is entitled, "A Book of Biographies for Girls," but it may be profitably and pleasantly used by other readers. It gives the biographies of notable wannest, beginning with Mary Somer- ville and ending with Catherine Tait. We, perhaps, might have altered the choice,—have found, say, a substitute for at least one of those selected. And hero and there we miss something that we would gladly have lied; we should have liked, for instance, to hoer something more of the process by which Mrs. Somerville acquired her great mathematical knowledge. We read, for instance, that she found Newton's " Principia " "too difficult." This was when she was twenty-seven years of ago, and was "familiar with piano and sphori cal trigonometry, conic acctions, and Ferguson's astronomy." Bat there is little reason to complain of this interesting series of biographical sketches.
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