ScnooL - Boolts. — Prench History for Schools, by Katharine Stephen (Macmillan and Co.,
3s. 6d.), is an adaptation of a book published some years ago under the title "French History for Children." We have no doubt that it will be useful, but are inclined to doubt the general success of the experiment. It has a certain air of being written down to suit its readers.—In the series of "The Children's Study" (T. Fisher Unwin) we have Canada, by J. N. McIlwraith (2s. 6d.), an account, compressed with no inconsiderable skill into a narrow space, of three centuries of conflict and growth. There is a cutious parallel, by the way, between Canadian and Cape affairs in the "thirties" and the " nineties " respectively.—Spenser's Paery Queen, Book IV., edited by Kate Warren (A. Constable and Co., is. 6d. net), an edition in which a full glossary serves at once its own purpose and that of notes.—From Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons we have The World and its Commerce, "a Primer of Commercial Geography" (Is.), French Commercial Phrases (ad.), A Practical Spanish Grammar (6d.), Spanish Business Interviews (6d.), and Spanish Business Letters(le.); Commercial Correspondence in German (lid.), Part L, to be followed by fourteen others ; A Primer of Book- Keeping (6d.), and other similar class-books. — Elementary Algebra (to Quadratics). By C. H. French, M.A.., and G. Osborn, M.A. (J. and A. Churchill. 4s. 6d.)
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