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(Continued from page 709.) A Geography of Western Europe, edited by E. D. Laborde (University of London Press, 8s. 6d.), has been written by five public-school masters to supply the need of a text. book suitable for their pupils. The text and illustrations an both excellent of their kind, but it is a somewhat arid kind. " In the Paris Basin the successive strata rise up by low gentle slopes from the centre of the basin to the outer edges, when they_ fall,_ by steep escarpments, to the succeeding strata." With the best will in the world, our eyes tend to close after a succession of sentences such as thia. -Why should the tender brain of the adolescent be more immune to boredom ?

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