The Cathedrals and Churches of Belgium. By T. F. BUMPUS. (255. net. Werner Laurie.)

Originally published in 1909, this book now appears in a new edition with such changes and omissions as the ravages of War have made necessary. It is essentially a book for those who know Belgium and its churches very well, or who can take it with them as well as Baedeker for reading during a leisurely tour. It gives in more literary and expanded form much of the historical and artistic summaries of a guide book. The paintings as well as the architecture of the various churches are considered. Rubens is, of course, the painter most frequently mentioned, but the estimate of him is hardly satisfactory as a piece of artistic criticism. There are some pleasant coloured illustrations, but the reproductions from photographs are limited and not good in tone. The architectural beauties of Tournai cathedral are rightly praised; we regret that no illustrations of it are given. Practical Pen Drawing. By E. G. LUTZ. (7s. 6d. net. Scribner.) Mr. Lutz is before all things "practical." This word, which appears in the titles of so many of his works, is no vain boast. Though of great interest to the student of art appreciation, this book is first and foremost a stimulus to personal effort. Materials and technique are exhaustively dealt with by means of text and illustrations; while the series of examples of the works of the masters of pen drawing should prove invaluable to the student, as well as of great interest to the general reader. Give a young student this book, a few pens and a bottle of ink, and it will not be for lack of clear instruction that he will not know how to use them.

(1) Jewellery Craft. Metal Craft. By F. J. GLASS. (Is. 6d. each. University of London Press.)

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(1) The day will come when every art room will be also a craft room. The study of the capacities and limitations of the craft is the foundation of all that is good and appropriate in design. Design and craft are inseparable, and the language of the tool can only be understood by handling it. Mr. Glass has already done much to further this state of affairs, and these excellent handbooks will help towards its consummation. Well written, and copiously illustrated with drawings specially made by the author, they are convenient as to size, and have a general beauty of format especially appropriate to a handbook on art. We have reason to know that the former books of the series have

proved very helpful in class work. (2) "Simple Crafts for Girls," by Mrs. T. Reed, is one of the best little handbooks which have yet appeared in this country. It deals with three of the basic crafts by means of clear descriptions and diagrams, and is designed to help the teacher who has not access to tuition in the crafts.

Art in the Life of Mankind: a Survey of its Achievements from the Earliest Times. By Prof. A. W. SEABY. I. A General View of Art: Its Nature, Meaning, Principles, and Appreciation. II. Art in Ancient Times: Prehistoric, Sumerian, Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Aegean. (5s. net each. Batsford.)

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Early English" Architecture-XIIIth Century. Interior. By A. STRATTON. (Is. 4d. net. Mounted on linen, bound edges, 2s. 10d. net. Batsford.) Introductory Handbook to the Styles of English Architecture: a Companion to the Series of Large Scale Comparative Diagrams (size 30 by 20 inches), Prepared for the Use of Schools, Teachers, Students, and Others. By A. STRATTON. Part I. The Middle Ages. (Saxon Times to the 15th Century). (Paper, Is. 6d. net. Cloth, 2s. 6d. net. Batsford.) Block-Cutting and Print-Making by Hand from Wood, Linoleum, and Other Media. By MARGARET DOBSON. (12s. 6d. net. Pitman.)

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Arthur Lionel Smith, Master of Baliol (1916-1924): A Biography and some Reminiscences by His Wife. (15s. net. Murray.) "There have been greater historians, deeper thinkers, abler organizers there never was a better tutor." From the purely academic point of view, such is the summary of “A. L.” by

one who knew him intimately. In his way, which was peculiarly his own way, and in his own sphere, he was, in other words, a great teacher; and the record of his life therefore makes appeal to any one who is trying to realize teaching as a high vocation. But to say that he was a great teacher is only another way of saying that he was a great man who happened to become a teacher. And one of the secrets of his greatness here stands revealed. It was an amazing vitality, which carried him through, from his wretched school life at Christ's Hospital to incessant and astonishingly varied activities almost to the day of his death. Opinions may differ as to whether a man's wife is his best biographer, but there can be no difference of opinion as to the charm and vigour and actuality of this particular specimen. It was a necessary condition of a successful biography of " A. L." that the man himself, the many-sided personality as known to his intimates, should be shown forth, and this condition has been well fulfilled in this biography.

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Cicero in Asia: Selections from Cicero's Letters and Speeches. Edited, with Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary, by S. PRICE. (IS. 9d. Clarendon Press.)

This book should be a real blessing to those teachers who are often exercised by the problem of what book to choose for Latin reading in the fifth form. It is provided with the usual vocabulary and notes, intended, as the preface says, "Mainly to show how Cicero is best translated into English." The notes do this well, but it is a little ungracious to imply that they have no other outstanding virtues. They also explain the references and circumstances of different times with remarkable lucidity. There is a good introduction (thirty pages) dealing with the life of Cicero, Asia Minor in the age of Cicero, Roman provincial government, and Mithridates of Pontus. Then come the selections themselves, chosen with great skill and discernment. We begin with the duties of a provincial governor as expounded by Cicero in a letter to his brother Quintus, followed by remonstrances in a further letter. Extracts from the "De Imperis Cn. Pompei," and from the Pro Murena" deal with the important figure of Mithridates the Great. Two letters describe Cicero's own military operations as governor of Cilicia, and we conclude with an extract from the admirable little speech, insufficiently real in schools, Pro Rege Deiotaro." Any class that reads through this excellent little book will obtain a good idea both of Cicero's epistolary and of his oratorical style, and cannot fail to appreciate the difficulties which faced a provincial governor in his attempt to govern the outskirts of the Roman Empire.

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Easy Latin for Beginners. By R. E. BURNS and A. E. BURNS. (2s. 6d. Methuen.)

ACCOUNTANCY-A PROFESSION FOR WOMEN.-The Society of Incorporated Accountants opened its doors to women at a comparatively early date, the first woman to qualify for the profession by examination being an incorporated accountant, Miss Hilda Mabel Claridge, of Bradford, who passed in 1919. Since then thirty-five other women have qualified as incorporated accountants, and those in practice are reported to be doing well. Lack of knowledge of the opportunities which present themselves and of the steps which have to be taken to qualify, appears to explain women's neglect to take up more generally as a career the profession of accountancy, for which they are well suited.

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"The Age of Interrogation is Mr. Ward's descriptive title for the first quarter of the twentieth century. The description suggests the point of view from which he makes a dispassionate survey of the contributions to English literature of its novelists, dramatists, poets, essayists, and critics, travellers and biographers. His criticism is refreshingly free from the extravagant epithets that disfigure so many contemporary appreciations; it is equally free from censoriousness. Mr. Ward has been at some pains to avoid overcrowding; and if this cautiousness has involved the omission of some important names, a glance at the "Reading List generally shows that the omission is deliberate, but also that the reader is encouraged to repair it for himself.

These two attractive little volumes belong to a set of six designed to illustrate the development of the English novel. (1) Contains selections from the Elizabethan romantics, Lyly, Greene, Lodge, Sidney, Forde, Mackenzie, and Chamberlayne. (2) Consists of specimens of the short tales characteristic of the periodical essayists who flourished in the early eighteenth century. Mr. Brimley Johnson's introductions are well constructed, informative, and never dull.

Reconsiderations: Literary Essays. By E. E. KELLETT. (8s. 6d. net. Cambridge University Press.)

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Mr. Kellett has here followed up his volume entitled "Suggestions by a further selection of essays, of which some have already appeared in the London Mercury, the Contemporary Review, and elsewhere. There are very few living essayists whom we read with greater pleasure than Mr. Kellett. His subtle qualities of style, his wide and accurate knowledge of men and books, his humour and his tolerance, inevitably win the attention of readers who know good criticism when they see it. essays make a varied appeal, and ten readers might begin at ten different points in the book. There are appreciations, in some cases from a special point of view, of Chaucer, Milton, Fuller, Wordsworth, Swinburne, and Conrad. There are also more general themes, of which we ourselves have marked for reperusal : "Critical Certainties," ""Dramatic Silences," and " The Translation of the New Testament." On this last subject Mr. Kellett holds strong views, which he strongly defends. Everyday Classics. Primer. (2s.). First Reader. (2s. 3d.). By Prof. FANNIE W. DUNN, Prof. F. T. BAKER, and Prof. A. H. THORNDIKE. Second Reader. (2s. 4d.). By Prof. F. T. BAKER, Prof. A. H. THORNDIKE and MILDRED BATCHelder. Third Reader, with Exercises in Silent Reading. (2s. 6d.). Fourth Reader, with Silent Reading Exercises. (2s. 8d.). Fifth Reader. (2s. 1od.). Sixth Reader. (35.). Seventh Reader: American Life and Literature for Grammar Grades and Junior High Schools. (3s.). Eighth Reader: The Introduction to Literature. (3s.). By Prof. F. T. BAKER and Prof. A. H. THORNDIKE. (New York: Macmillan.) This is no haphazard title for a series, the popularity of which is attested by the list of reprints, for the mass of material is taken from English and translated classics, chosen with sure judgment and discrimination to suit the advancing age and taste of the learner. Though prepared for the eight grades of the American public schools, there is no reason why these Readers should not be used with equal profit in our own, for a reading even of the seventh, the most distinctively American, could but serve to widen the understanding and extend the interests and sympathies of English children and foster in them a spirit of impartiality. There is nothing to wound even tender susceptibilities in the pieces chosen to illustrate the history of the relations between England and the U.S.A. The "Helps

to Study," which include questions, are fresh and suggestive, and there are welcome aids to the pronunciation, not only of proper names, but of unusual words like demesne, intended to forestall mistakes by the pupil reading alone which might be found later hard to set right. The nine volumes are exceptionally solid, handsome, and finely-printed, many with delightful illustrations.

(1) The New Beacon Readers. Introductory Book. (9d.). Supplementary Book One. (1od.). By M. E. SULLIVAN and P. M. Cox. Supplementary Book Two. (Is.). By R. DILLINGHAM. New Beacon Reading Pictures. (Set of 6, 3s. Ginn.) (2) Constructive Hints on the Earliest Stages of Teaching Reading. By E. H. GRASSAM and R. D. MORSS. (Is. Ginn.) With an ever-widening field of service, the Beacon Readers now find it necessary to extend their activities further along the same lines. Hence we have a set of wall-charts, bold in design and pleasant in colouring; three additional Readers for beginners; and, finally, a supplement to the Teachers' Manual. Among the many devices suggested in (2) for promoting the active co-operation of the learners, are flash-cards," corresponding to the objects used in “ Memory Drawing "-cards containing a single phrase or sentence, exposed for a second and then withdrawn, the child being expected to recall what it has just seen.

Ability Exercises in English for Junior Scholarships. By A. C. S. ASHMORE. (Cloth, 1s. 3d. Manilla, Is. Russell.)

This book, for which no originality of treatment is claimed, is intended to give to children experience in answering questions of the kind now set by many education authorities and examining bodies, and the variety of the exercises given should make it most useful for this purpose.

Adventures on the Amazon. By D. ENGLISH. (Is. 4d. Bell. Glasgow Holmes.)

Luck, a gipsy boy without family or friends, is taken on a trip to South America by Mr. Harding, a naturalist and explorer. In the course of their search for a tree producing a rubber which, after chemical treatment, becomes as transparent as glass, Luck makes acquaintance with many of the plants and animals of the Amazon region.

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The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon. Arranged by D. SLADEN. Memoirs of Mary Wollstonecraft. By W. GODWIN. Re-edited by MIDDLETON MURRY. (3s. 6d. net each. Constable.) Two pleasant additions to Constable's Miscellany." Mr. Douglas Sladen contributes a biographical introduction to the collected works of the Australian poet, and Mr. Middleton Murry commends to modern readers the revived biography of a woman of genius.

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Life in the Middle Ages. Selected, Translated, and Edited by Dr. G. G. COULTON. Vol. I. Religion, Folk-Lore, and Superstition. (7s. 6d. net. Cambridge University Press.) This second and enlarged edition, now divided into four volumes, of the very valuable Medieval Garner which Mr. Coulton first published in 1910, is secure of a hearty welcome. Once and again a collection of extracts may be of more educational and historical importance than a dozen original works, and this is certainly true of Mr. Coulton's anthology. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Selected Stories and Poems. By BRET HARTE. Edited, with an Introduction, by Prof. G. R. STEWART. (5s. net. New York: Macmillan.) Old friends of Bret Harte and his works will welcome this collection, and it can be commended to those who do not know the author as a master of the short story and the dialect poem. The examples of the former give vivid clear-cut pictures of the miners' life in California in the early days of the gold rush, and if the reader tends to feel critical of the sentimentality of some of the tales, he will feel able to rejoice whole-heartedly at the whimsical humour of Truthful James which abounds in the latter.

Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia, with Parts of the Supplements Thereto, and Notes. By S. T. BYINGTON. (3S. Ginn.) Any one who has achieved a measure of success in the drawing of the long bow will come away from a reading of this book sadly chastened and depressed. Munchausen's pre-eminence in this line remains undiminished in spite of modern accounts of fights with big fish and adventures in exploration. One is happy to see that the editor expects that the tales will find a natural home in America, and certainly some of the incidents mentioned in the preface would seem to indicate that his expectation is likely to be fulfilled.

Junior Test Papers in English: for the Use of Pupils Preparing
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A Book of Knights. By ELIZABETH D'OYLEY. (Is. 6d. Bell. Glasgow Holmes.)

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Spoken Verse for Schools and Festivals. Arranged by T. HENDERSON. (Part I—Elementary, Is. Part II-Advanced, IS. 6d. Complete, 2s. 6d. Clarendon Press.) The two latest Oxford anthologies are excellent collections of verse chosen for recitation because of the special marching, dancing, or ringing quality of their rhythms. They have the advantage of introductions from the very competent and practised pen of Mr. J. C. Smith.

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The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. By C. MARLOWE. Every Man in his Humour. By B. JONSON. (IS. 9d. each. Knopf.) Among all the new series of English text-books, there was still room for the" Borzoi Dramatists," acting editions of Elizabethan plays. They are not for the professional student, as their text is not complete; but the "cuts " make the plays decidedly more suitable for school dramatic societies, and the full stage-directions and "production notes will be helpful to amateur performers. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Retold by S. DAVIS. (IS. Bell. Glasgow Holmes.) "Twelfth Night lends itself better than most plays to re-telling for little people, and the result is most successful. Sir Andrew's famous challenge and Maria's letter, as well, indeed, as many portions of the narrative, are given in Shakespeare's own words, and the Clown's songs are all inserted in their proper places.

Shakespeare to Hardy: an Anthology of English Lyrics. Chosen by A. METHUEN. Third School Edition, with a Critical Commentary by W. E. WILLIAMS. (3s. 6d. Methuen.) The success of the late Sir Algernon Methuen's anthology of lyrics from Shakespeare to Hardy has been remarkable, and will, no doubt, continue. A critical commentary of ninety-two

Six Craft Plays. By W. R. COOPER and A. DUNNING. (IS. 6d. Bell. Glasgow: Holmes.)

These are six delightful plays, each one of them fitted to be the centre of a study of a period of history and each at the same time dealing with some craft, whether it is that of the making of the first bow and arrow, or that of the alchemist, or that of the maker of machines. Young players will find all equally thrilling, and may well pass from the acting of them to the making of plays of their own dealing with the industries to be found in the town or country side in which their school is placed. The reader has envied the pupils who have had the good fortune to be taught in the atmosphere which has given rise to these little works of art.

Poetry in School. By Dr. J. H. JAGGER. (6s. net. University of London Press.)

Dr. Jagger has produced a very sane, straightforward, openminded statement, with which most teachers of thoughtful experience will agree. He has no new theory of method, nor any panacea for removing difficulties; and he makes no extravagant claims. He admits that poetry, although profoundly influencing feeling and action, does not necessarily make one a better man or a more useful citizen. Those thinkers who have defended poetry on moral or utilitarian grounds have been driven to this position by the reigning conceptions of the age in which they lived, whilst all the time they have loved poetry for its own sake. As a thing of beauty it stands on its own merits as of permanent value and as a perpetual source of pleasure. Before a teacher can present a poem, says Dr. Jagger in effect, he must have really studied poetry, as well as have developed a genuine love of poetry. But intellectual analysis has no place in the school, except in the highest forms and in universities. Dr. Jagger makes good suggestions about the appreciation lesson, but he is implacably opposed to formalism and rigidity of method. There are helpful chapters on analysis of technique, where the language is refreshingly simple and free from pedantry. Many poems are quoted, but no lists are given. The book is meant to stimulate thought, not to save people the trouble of thinking, and it achieves its purpose admirably.

The Pilgrim's Progress" of John Bunyan: a Dramatized Version of Certain Scenes in his Own Words. Arranged by W. Rix. (Paper, 2s.; cloth, 3s. Allen & Unwin.)

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The Bird that is Blue: A Study of Maeterlinck's Two Fairy Plays. By FLORENCE G. FIDLER. (5s. Selwyn & Blount.) Though curiously "unscholared (to borrow one of the author's own formations) in its diction, this is an interesting study of Maeterlinck's fairy plays. Its assumption that the poet must have a definite meaning capable of logical expression may be challenged, but its claim that the Blue Bird represents man's highest conception at successive stages, his unattained and receding ideal, is an advance upon the doctrine of the theatre programmes, that the Blue Bird means happiness. Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics. Book Fifth (Nineteenth Century.) Selected and Arranged by L. BINYON. With Notes by J. H. FOWLER. (2s. 6d. Macmillan.)

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Junior Geometry. By A. E. TWEEDY. (2s. 3d. Dent.)

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This is an interesting text-book with some novel features. It is essentially an introduction to the subject, and no attempt is made to build up a complete logical system. But when the author claims in the preface that the theoretical work is so arranged that the whole or any part of it may be omitted without destroying the sequence," he is clearly making an absurd claim; for either no sequence exists, or else the omission of essential links must destroy it. In fact there is a sequence, and one of the most noticeable features of it is that the circle properties are introduced early, before congruence properties, and this may well promote interest in the subject. The book should be taken as a whole by pupils of average ability, but weaker pupils can do the practical and inductive exercises without going on to the deductive. A minor drawback to the book is that answers are not given to measurement questions.

The Teaching of Arithmetic in the Infant and Junior School. By A. MONTEITH. (6s. net. Harrap.)

Books on method are sufficiently rare to be welcomed. The first chapter of this book on Aims and Methods " alone justifies publication. The author goes on to deal with the progressive stages of the teaching of arithmetic to children under 10, showing what apparatus should be used in the infant school and how. We welcome particularly the final chapter on number study. Many children, perhaps all intelligent children, have an interest in numbers as such, and they should certainly be encouraged to make friends, when young, with numbers which they will meet on many and various occasions in later life, and so learn early to recognize their peculiarities.

Elements of Practical Plane Geometry: a Two Years' Course for Day and Evening Technical Students. By P. W. SCOTT. Part I (First Year). Chapters I-VI Inclusive. Part 2 (Second Year). Chapters VII-XI Inclusive. (IS. each. Pitman.)

Although these small volumes are almost entirely concerned with geometrical drawing, there is practically no deductive work; the necessary constructions are given without explanation of the reasons for them. But on the practical side they are valuable. There are numerous clear diagrams, many of them illustrating the drawing and design of familiar objects in everyday life.

Theory of Probability. By the late Dr. W. BURNSIDE. (10s. 6d. net. Cambridge University Press.)

The Cambridge University Press is to be congratulated on its enterprise in producing a book of this type, for there can be little, if any, profit in doing so, yet it contains matter that is certainly worth preserving and issuing to the limited public who are capable of appreciating it. The book has been constructed

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from a manuscript which Prof. Burnside had practically completed before his death. It has been prepared for the press by Prof. Forsyth, who contributes a memoir of Prof. Burnside, originally written for the Royal Society. The book just falls short of being a systematic treatise on the theory of probability. It is not easy reading and is in no sense a book for school use, but teachers who are interested in the subject will find plenty of material here with which to enliven and illustrate their school teaching.

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(9d. net.) Key to Brain Normal Press.)

By T. C. JACKSON and (5s. University Tutorial

duction" explains how many of these songs came into being, songs of occupation, Celtic lullabies, plough-tunes, and laments, the development of the accompaniments, the separation of the song and dance; these and many other points are treated and explained in a manner which helps to make clear the origin and development of Celtic melody. Where possible the original words have been collected and preserved.

Sight-Reading Tests for Beginners. By DORA PIERCE and LILIAN LEAVEY. Books I and II. (Is. 6d. each. Oxford University Press.)

More attention is now being given to that most important branch of musical education, the practice of reading at sight. These books provide the right kind of material for sight reading in the early stages.

Sonatina per il Mandolina for Violin and Piano. By L. VAN BEETHOVEN. Edited and Adapted by T. F. DUNHILL. (2s. net. Williams.)

A little sonatina of only moderate difficulty. Mr. Dunhill's name as editor is sufficient guarantee that the bowing, phrasing, etc., has been carefully done.

March Tune. Canzonetta. By C. JAFFRAY. (Is. 6d. net each. Williams.)

Beethoven. The Pianoforte Sonatas II. By A. F. MILNE. (Is. 6d. net. Oxford University Press.)

Two Pieces for Piano. (a) Humoresque. (b) Robin Redbreast.
By D. ÉDESON. (2s. net. Williams.)
Principles of Musical Education. By Dr. J. L. MURSELL.
(7s. 6d. net. New York. Macmillan.)

A Modern German Course: for Students of History, Geography, Economics, and Literature. By J. BITHELL and A. C. DUNSTAN. (4s. Methuen.)

This course is chiefly for older students who wish to acquire rapidly sufficient German to be able to read any ordinary text for purposes of research. The grammatical introduction gives all necessary forms, and this is followed by passages for reading chosen chiefly from geographical and historical sources. There are two extracts on the Great War that should appeal to all. Each extract is followed by brief notes and there is a full vocabulary.

Weh Dem, Der Lügt! Lustspiel in Fünf Aufzugen. By F. GRILLPARZER. Edited, with Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary, by Prof. C. H. BELL. (5s. 6d. net. Oxford University Press.)

This classical comedy should prove excellent for reading in an upper form. This appears to be the first school edition, and as such it is to be welcomed after the quantities of repetitions that exist of some texts.

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Voyages en Zigzag. By R. TÖPFFER. Selections from Premiers Voyages en Zigzag and " Nouveaux Voyages en Zigzag." Edited by Prof. W. THOMAS. (2s.) French Town and Country: an Anthology of Prose and Verse. Compiled and Edited by Prof. T. B. RUDMOSE-BROWN. (2s. 6d.) Capitaine Pamphile. By ALEXANDRE DUMAS. Abridged and Edited by Prof. W. THOMAS. (IS. 9d.) (Nelson.) These three books are additions to Nelson's Modern Studies Series which we have already reviewed favourably. Each volume has an introduction in English, a few notes, a vocabulary, and a well-printed text. Töpffer's masterpiece has been often edited; Prof. Thomas has made selections from the two works and added some of the original illustrations. Prof. RudmoseBrown has made an anthology of descriptions of French provinces which will prove attractive to those students who propose to spend some time across the Channel. The extracts are from modern authors, the opening extract by M. Herriot having been published only last year. Dumas's story, also edited and abridged by Prof. Thomas, will make a good term reader for a middle form. The publishers are producing these books very attractively and at a very modest price.

Memoires de Sully. Annotation and Glossary by Rev. W. D. MONRO. Lettres de Mon Moulin. By A. DAUDET. Annotation and Glossary by Dr. P. VRIJDAGHS and W. RIPMAN. Le Barbier de Séville. By BEAUMARCHAIS. Introduction, Notes, and Glossary, by Dr. P. VRIJDAGHS and W. RIPMAN. (IS. 9d. each.) German Ballads and Narrative Poems. Compiled and Annotated by Dr. P. VRIJDAGHS and W. RIPMAN. (2s. 3d. Dent.)

These four volumes form additions to Dent's Treasuries of French and German literature. They differ from the preceding series in that the introduction and notes are in French. The "Memoires de Sully" will interest the historical student and we believe it has never been published before so cheaply. But Daudet's “Lettres " has been edited so often that a halt might be called in the repetition of editions. "Le Barbier de Séville' is also an old favourite that all French pupils should read during a four-year course. The German ballads are most interesting and well chosen; they include specimens from Bürger to Sacken and with the introductions and notes in German, they will be kept when most other school-books have been thrown away. Cours de Français: Première Année, with Phononomic Script. By H. V. GROVES. (2s. 6d. Methuen.)

Mr. H. V. Groves has added still another to the large number of first French Courses. He excuses himself by alleging that many pupils dislike the usual phonetic script and so he uses what he calls a phononomic script. The book is illustrated. Alfred de Musset. Selected Prose, Drama, and Verse. Edited, with Footnotes and Oral and Written Exercises, by Dr. W. G. HARTOG. (3s. Hachette.)

Dr. Hartog's selection from de Musset includes all sides of the author's work, and would be useful to a student who was specializing on the romantic period.

En Riant: Trois Petites Pièces de Théâtre à lire ou à jouer. Editées, avec des Notes et un Vocabulaire, par F. A. HEDGCOCK. (2s. Bell.)

Those teachers who like their pupils to perform plays in French will find Dr. Hedgcock's three plays-Les Trois Souhaits by Verconsin and two others by himself-very useful. The

book could also be used as a reader; it has notes in French at the bottom of the page and a vocabulary. There are also suggestions for the costumes in each play and how each should be produced in public.

(1) Daniel Defoe.

Premières Aventures de Robinson Crusoe. With Exercises and Vocabulary by A. WILSON-Green. (3s. 6d. Cambridge University Press.)

(2) Contes Mythologiques. By M. CEPPI. (2s. Bell.)

(3) Certificate French Composition. With Notes. By the Rev. Dr. W. R. FLEX and Prof. CH. H. MOULINIER. (2s. Key for Use of Teachers only, 5s. Longmans.)

(4) Advanced French Composition. By Prof. HELEN B. S. POSTGATE. (5s. 6d. net. Oxford University Press.) (5) A School Grammar of Modern German. By F. R. H. MCLELLAN. (5s. Cambridge University Press.)

(1) Mr. Wilson-Green has had quite a good idea in taking a French translation of Robinson Crusoe as the subject of a reader. The matter will be familiar to every pupil and for rapid reading in class this book should teach almost unconsciously a large number of words. For those teachers who need them there are some well composed exercises at the end, and although the compiler does not advocate translation, yet for those who do, he adds a vocabulary of the less known words.

(2) The books of M. Ceppi follow one another with unfailing regularity. This time he gives us the classical mythology of Greece and Rome in a French dress. The printing is very clear for young eyes, there are illustrations, questions and exercises on the text, and a vocabulary. But after all is it not better to read about French history or legends in French?

(3) The two authors of this composition endeavour to deal tersely with those difficulties that students for certificate and matriculation examinations meet in their preparation. This they do by thirty sets of sentences, each containing one or more difficulties of French grammar which are explained in the notes at the end of the book. These are followed by seventy pieces of continuous prose specially written to cover the requirements of examination candidates. This book should certainly be inspected by any teacher who prepares for these tests.

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(4) This is a very different type of book from the previous It is evidently written by an American woman student at Sèvres, and for her compatriots who wish to follow in her footsteps, it may well serve their purpose. But the American locutions and spelling would prevent its use in English schools. It begins with grammar drill and sentences. The pieces of continuous prose are supposed to be drawn from the diary of an American girl who comes to France as a student. She describes Paris and its inhabitants, her life at the college, and an excursion through the valley of the Loire. As M. Cestre says in his introduction: "Voici qui est bien! Un livre de classe qui n'est pas ennuyeux."

(5) The director of Modern Language Studies at Mill Hill School has compiled a German grammar for the first three or four years of study. It is well printed and does not include too much, and any teacher who wishes to adopt, or change a grammar, should inspect it.

Selections from La Bruyère. By Prof. H. ASHTON. (4s. 6d. Cambridge University Press.)

The Professor of French in the University of British Columbia has produced a scholarly edition of "La Bruyère," an author not much studied in England, except for some extracts from Les Caractères." Dr. Ashton has chosen extracts that illustrate the society of the seventeenth century, omitting those of religious or literary interest. The notes are full and interesting, giving many references to other authors of the time.

Histoire de la Littérature Française des Origines a 1925. By Prof. A. NOBLET. (4s. Bell.)

An Easy German Reader (With Full Vocabulary): Adapted from Ludwig Bechstein's Stories. By S. TINDALL and Dr. J. D. E. WILLIAMS. (2s. Bell.)

Fifth Form French Course. By E. F. HORSLEY and C. L. A. BONNE. (3s. 6d. Rivingtons.)

La Semeuse. By Prof. B. M. Woodbridge. (7s. 6d. net. University of Chicago Press. Cambridge University Press.) German Lyrics. Selected and Edited by Dr. P. VRIJDAGHS and W. RIPMAN. (2s. 3d. Dent.)

La Rana Viajera: Artículos Homorísticos. By JULIO CAMBA. Edited, with Introduction, Notes, and Vocabulary, by F. DE ONÍS. (2s. 6d. Heath.)

Frédéric Mistral. Mes Origines. Edited by E. J. A. Groves. With Notes and Vocabulary. (Is. Blackie.)