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Subsidies Primaries. Parts I. and II. By the Editor of

the Public School Latin Primer. (Longmans.)—It is impossible to judge of the

value of a school book without a trial, and for this a critic cannot com- mand the opportunity. We should say that the defects of these volumes are a too great fullness of matter (especially in the second, which may bo almost said to bo grammar, exercise-book, and delectus in ono), and a disposition to exorcise too direct a guidance on the action of the teacher.