Mr. D. de Carteret Bisson republishes Our Schools and Colleges.
(Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—This "eighth edition" has attained an almost gigantic bulk, its two volumes containing some two thou- sand pages. It is true that the second volume, devoted to the subject of the education of "girls," might have been materially reduced, mach of the matter being discoverable in the first. All deductions made, however, we have a great mass of information, which Mr. Bisson has carefully collected and revised. The work still falls short of our ideal, but we do not know of any other which gives so full and, on the whole, so trustworthy details.
One of the most interesting parts of Sir Thomas Brassey's elaborate work on The British Navy is reprinted in a volume bearing the title of British Seamen. (Longmana.) It is not, however, a mere reprint. The whole has been brought up to the present time (the substance of the book having been first published seven years ago), and the whole has been revised by Mr. T. W. Heine, of the Board of Trade.
We have received Plain-Cooking Recipes, as taught in the National Training School for Cookery, South Kensington. Prepared by Mrs. C. Clarke. (Allen and Co.)
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