Macbeth. Edited by E. E. KELLETT. The Merchant of Venice.

Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by P. H. B. LYON. The Tempest. Edited by Dr. E. THOMPSON. An Introduction to Shakespeare: Passages Chosen for Lower Forms. By Dr. E. THOMPSON. (3s. 6d. each. Benn.) The editor's provocative introduction is obviously intended for those of older growth than the pupils of lower forms for whom these attractive selections were made. These come under the headings: Descriptive Passages, Songs and Sonnets, Dramatic.

The Problems of Hamlet. By G. F. BRADBY. (Is. 6d. net. Oxford University Press.)

Mr. Bradby has given us an intriguing solution of the problems of the character and play of Hamlet. He obliges us to accept the presence of two Horatios of different antecedents, and asks for the consideration of the possibility that the play as it stands represents two plays imperfectly welded together so that at times we are dealing with a young impetuous Hamlet of an early play, at others with the more mature philosophic character of a production of a later date.

A Second Dickens Book: Scenes from the Works of Charles Dickens. Edited by J. COMPTON. (2s. 6d. Bell. Glasgow: Holmes.)

Well chosen extracts, complete in themselves, calculated to develop an interest in the works of Dickens, and to encourage the reader to further exploration.

A Book of Victorian Verse, Chiefly Lyrical. Edited by V. H. COLLINS. (2s. 6d. Clarendon Press.)

Keats. Hyperion, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, Lamia. Edited by G. E. HOLLINGWORTH. (2S. University Tutorial Press.) Paradise Lost. Books I, II, and III. By JOHN MILTON. (IS. (Blackie.)

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 Study of Poetry: a Literary Supplement. By A. R. ENTWISTLE. (2s. 6d. Nelson.) (IS.

Rupert and the Enchanted Princess. By MARY TOURTEL. net. Sampson Low.)

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

Marlowe. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. Edited by A. H. SLEIGHT. (IS. 9d. Cambridge University Press.) The Servant of Two Masters (Il Servitore di Due Padroni): a Comedy. By CARLO GOLDONI. Translated, with an Introduction, by E. J. DENT, for Performance by the A.D.C., Cambridge, 5-12 June, 1928. (3s. 6d. net. Cambridge University Press.)

Understanding Human Nature. By A. ADLER. Translated by W. B. WOLFE. (12s. 6d. net. Allen & Unwin.)

This book, fluently and intelligibly translated, represents a year of popular weekly lectures at the People's Institute of Vienna. To students of Dr. Adler's contributions to modern psychology, the general lines of treatment will answer expectations, for the book is a clear and practical application of the author's "individual psychology," and though he does not address teachers specifically, he has much to say about education. To educate, it is necessary to understand how faulty development may lead to tragedy. Such faulty development occurs when worship of personal power holds the field, to the exclusion of interest in the common weal. This desire for power forces the individual to seek his objects by devious routes, without consideration for others, and with constant fear of defeat. An exaggerated development of ambition and vanity prevents orderly development of the individual, because social feeling is stunted or destroyed. The family does not help, because of the ignorance of parents and the continual spurs to ambition which mark average family life. Nor does the school, as we know it, help. Only, it would appear, by means of a thoroughly reformed school, having its operations based upon a true understanding" of "human nature" can human beings be assisted in working out their destinies successfully. The book is a modern apology for an old gospel, and is well worth reading.

That Mind of Yours: A Psychological Analysis. By Dr. D. B. LEARY. (68. net. Lippincott.)

The Mental Life: A Survey of Modern Experimental Psychology. By Prof. C. A. RUCKMICK. (7s. 6d. Longmans.) There is a steady flow of books on psychology for the general reader as well as for the student. "That Mind of Yours" is a popular account of the subject, mainly from the behaviouristic standpoint, written in simple language. The second book is considerably less popular and gives more attention to the problems of sensory and perceptual experience. It contains a well-classified bibliography.

Bisexuality: An Essay on Extraversion and Introversion. By T. J. FAITHFULL. (3s. 6d. net. Bale & Danielsson.) In this book the astonished reader learns to what end his education rate is being used: "What now passes for education is psychological rape on a wholesale scale. Teachers are required to extravert violently or strongly for several hours every day, with stick, tongue, elbow, or natural authority. The law forbids and punishes rape of the body, but this of the soul passes for education and the examination results are some of the offspring which result from the attacks." The frontispiece is a picture of two singularly attractive girls who have been brought up in a medium where no adult forces his libido on them or sucks out their libido."

The Springs of Laughter. By Dr. C. W. KIMMINS. (6s. net. Methuen.)

Dr. Kimmins writes as usual with delightful ease about children and their ways. He has collected a large number of " funny stories" and essays on "the funniest thing I have ever seen from children of all ages in both English and American schools, and besides analysing and classifying them with regard to the development of a sense of humour, he has quoted a large number in full. He also guarantees the genuineness of a few delightful examination "howlers," e.g. Oliver Cromwell had a round head. He asked for more.' The earlier chapters of the book give an interesting summary of the main theories of laughter from the seventeenth century to the present day.

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The Symbolic Process and its Integration in Children: a Study in Social Psychology. By Prof. J. F. MARKEY. (10s. 6d. net. Kegan Paul.)

ABC of Adler's Psychology. By P. MAIret. (3s. 6d. net.
Kegan Paul.)
Judgment and Reasoning in the Child. By Prof. J. PIAGET. In
Collaboration with Mlles. E. CARTALIS, S. ESCHER,
A. HANHART, L. HAHNLOSER, O. MATTHES, S. PERRET, and
M. ROUD. (10s. 6d. net. Kegan Paul.)

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The Girl in White Armor: The True Story of Joan of Arc. By A. B. PAINE. (10s. 6d. net. New York Macmillan.) The story of Saint Joan, whether presented as drama or as epic, has a perennial fascination. In the volume before us it is admirably told, and told with a very strict regard for historic truth. The narrative is illustrated by a large number of photographs and engravings. It would be difficult to conceive a more attractive book of its sort.

Outlines of Local Government of the United Kingdom (and the Irish Free State). Including a Chapter on the Rating and Valuation Act, 1925. By J. J. CLARKE. Seventh Edition. (4s. net. Pitman.)

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The fact that Mr. Clarke's "Outlines of Local Government' has reached a seventh edition is sufficient proof of its value to students of the British Constitution. Its fullness and accuracy make it a model textbook on its theme. The present, muchenlarged edition, includes a new chapter on valuation and rating. The chapter on Ireland, moreover, has been re-written. The whole work has been brought up to date.

The Holy Roman Empire. By Dr. E. F. JACOB. A History of Germany. By W. H. DAWSON. A History of Europe, 4761925. By R. B. MOWAT. The War on Land in the Main Theatres of War, 1914–1918: Comprising the Western Front, the Eastern Front, and Italian Front, the Balkans, and the Campaigns against Turkey. By D. JERROLD. (6d. each. Benn.)

Messrs. Benn & Co. are singularly fortunate in securing as the writers of their marvellous sixpenny monographs men who are both first-rate authorities and also masters of literary style. Each of the four volumes before us is a miracle of compression and presentation. Three of them cover a period and curiously enough the same period seen from different points of view-of a millennium and a half. The remaining volume deals with only four years, but they are the four years 1914-1918, concerning which not the world itself could contain the books that might be written. No student of history should fail to procure these priceless sixpennyworths.

Cheshire. By R. W. FINN. Somerset. By PHYLLIS WARD. (2s. each. Knopf.)

These two small but scholarly and attractive volumes introduce a series entitled the Borzoi County Histories, edited by Mr. S. J. Madge. They follow one and the same excellent plan, viz. a discussion of physical features and geology leading on to a sketch of the county during prehistoric, Roman, Saxon, medieval, and modern times. Both are extremely well done. To school teachers living in the respective counties, they will supply stores of local illustration to the general history of England, and to lovers of antiquities everywhere they will reveal many priceless relics of olden days. We hope that this valuable series may be continued until it includes all the counties of Great Britain and Ireland.

Philips' New School Atlas of Universal History: A Series of 56 Plates, Containing 145 Coloured Maps and Diagrams, with an Introduction Illustrated by 48 Maps in Black and White, and a full Index. Edited by R. MUIR and G. PHILIP. Tenth Edition, Rearranged and Greatly Enlarged. (5s. G. Philip & Son.)

Eighteen years have elapsed since Messrs. Philip & Son first published Prof. Ramsay Muir's "New Atlas of Modern History." During that period so great has been its popularity that it has passed through nine editions. In none of these, however, has any substantial change been made. Very different is it with the present tenth edition. Three important alterations, all of them improvements, at once strike the eye. First, nine new plates, illustrative of ancient history are included, necessitating a change in the title of the atlas from modern" to "universal." Secondly, some new modern maps are inserted, e.g. France in the eighteenth century. Finally, to prevent overloading, a few of the less important medieval maps, e.g. Lombard Italy, are relegated to the larger "Students' Atlas." In its new form, with its fifty-six fine plates, its comprehensive introduction, and its full index, it should prove invaluable as an aid to the study of history and historical geography.

The English Constitution. By W. BAGEHOT. (Cloth, 2s. net. Leather, 3s. 6d. net. Oxford University Press.) Walter Bagehot's" English Constitution" is a classic. Written originally in 1867, it gave an inimitable picture of the governance of England on the eve of the second Reform Bill. A second

edition, published in 1872, modified the picture so as to include the new electorate and the new educational machine set up in 1870. The present attractive reprint is enriched by a twentypaged Introduction by Lord Balfour, who discusses the value of Bagehot's masterpiece, and emphasizes from his own unique experience some of the points which Bagehot makes, e.g. the difference between an American President and a British Prime Minister.

The Roman World. By Prof. V. CHAPOT. (16s. net. Kegan Paul.)

This is a volume in the great History of Civilization which Mr. C. K. Ogden is editing for Messrs. Kegan Paul & Co. Like most of the series, it is a translation from a volume in the French Series entitled L'Evolution de l'Humanité. Its writer is a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts, and a former member of the French school at Athens. With a masterly command of recent investigations he discusses, first, the making of the Roman Empire; secondly, the machinery of its provincial government; and finally, in a dozen illuminating chapters, life in the principal provinces of the Empire. The twenty-two pages, all too short, in which the problems of Roman Britain are discussed, will be found peculiarly interesting and valuable to English students.

The Amazing Career of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. By Dr. A. J. HARROP. With Extracts from A Letter from Sydney.'

(7s. 6d. net. Allen & Unwin.) Few men have played a more important part in the making of the British Empire than Edward Gibbon Wakefield His was the scheme of colonization which determined the development of both Southern Australia and New Zealand. His, too, in part the inspiration of the famous Durham report which introduced the principle of dominion self-government into Canada and the Empire. Yet this eminent and original genius began his public career inauspiciously in Newgate Prison, where he was quite properly placed because he, a widower with a family, abducted by means of false stories the school-girl daughter of wealthy parents. His is, indeed, an amazing record, and Dr. Harrop presents it vividly and effectively.

Hibernia, or The Future of Ireland. By B. C. WALLER. (2s. 6d. net. Kegan Paul.)

A reader who is old enough to have lived through the "Irish question during the last forty or fifty years may be disposed to a fit of depression at the sight of this book. He may cheer up and go on with his reading. For here, at last, is a really cheerful book about Ireland. Both the Free State and the Northern Province are said to have started upon an era of peaceful development, in ways which already make it apparent that the north and the south cannot do without each other. The author looks forward, not to a republic, but to a united Ireland which shall be a member of the British Commonwealth. But the unity must come insensibly from within, for the road from Belfast to Dublin does not lie through London. A cheering and informing pamphlet.

The British Empire. By Prof. B. WILLIAMS. A History of England, 1815-1918. By J. R. M. BUTLER. (2s. net. each. Thornton Butterworth.)

The English People: a Junior History. By Dr. R. JONES. (2s. 6d. Dent.)

The Early History of Tasmania: The Geographical Era 1642-1804. By R. W. GIBLIN. (21s. net. Methuen.)

The League of Nations School Book. By Dr. R. JONES and S. S. SHERMAN. (Is. 3d. Macmillan.)

Commonwealth and Restoration. By A. S. TURBERVILLE.

The

Age of Queen Anne. By A. C. WOOD. (2s. 6d. each. Nelson.) From Age to Age: Stories in English History. By MARY GOULD. Book I. A.D. 43-1485. Book II. A.D. 1580-1815. (1s. 6d. each. Oxford University Press.)

Ancient Civilizations: From the Earliest Times to the Birth of
Christ. By D. A. MACKENZIE. (5s. Blackie.)
British Prime Ministers of the Eighteenth Century. By Prof.
F. J. C. HEARNSHAW. (6d. Benn.)

The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians: A Series of Lectures.
By the late Prof. J. B. BURY. (12s. 6d. net. Macmillan.)
British History, 1399-1485. By G. T. GRIFFITH. (2s. Bell.)