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The Storied Past (Edward Arnold. is. 6d.) belongs to the

series of "Arnold's Literary Reading-Books." It contains passages—some sixty in number—from English literature in the illustration of English history. The selections begin with Cowper's "Boadicea"; this is followed by "The Departure of the Legion from Britain" in the early part of the fifth century. Prose and verse are judiciously combined, and the whole appears to be well contrived.—Talks About Ourselves, by Kathleen Falmouth (Routiedge and Sons. le. 6d. net), is another educa- tional book, only the lessons which it teaches concern the func- tions of the body: how they may be healthily exercised.