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The School World, Vol. IX. (Macmillan and Co. 7s. 6d.

net.)— We are glad to see this "Monthly Magazine of Educational Work and Progress" in volume form. It does very serviceable work in the direction indicated by its title. We observe a paper (con- tinuing one published in an earlier volume) on "The Reform of Latin Teaching" by Mr. W. H. S. Jones, of the Perse School, Cambridge. Mr. Jones observes :—" It is a curious fact, and one for which it is hard to give a psychological reason, that a boy may be able to speak Latin with fluency and correctness, and yet make monstrous mistakes when he has to express himself upon paper." Does not this bear very directly on the "anti-trans- lation" movement in the teaching of modern languages ?