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-THE FINCH PRIMER, by Adelaide V. Finch, -three hundred words (90 pp.; 35c.) is a beautiful book with its numerous colored pictures and half-tone cuts. Its lessons are adapted to the different seasons of the year; it inculcates love of home, country, nature and companions; and it confines itself to a limited vocabulary in order that the little learner may advance more rapidly in the acquisition of the printed forms.

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-LYRICAL AND DRAMATIC POEMS, selected from the works of Robert Browing, (275 pp.; 60c.) edited by Edward T. Mason, opens with the admirable ninth chapter of Sted

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-LITERATURE FRANCAISE, dixhuitieme et dixneuvieme siecle, par E. Aubert, (290 pp.; $1.00) contains brief notices of the foremost French writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, followed by extracts from their works-a plan such as we are familiar with in English literature. The selections are interesting in subjects and valuable in treatment, but necessarily brief, and therefore imperfectly representative of the writers. The book, however, is but an introduction to the literature, and will have done its best service when it has guided its readers to the great authors themselves.

-LA MARE AU DIABLE, par George Sand, edited by Edward S. Joynes, with notes and vocabulary, (122 pp.; 40c.) makes an ideal French book to follow the reader. Its style is easy and simple, its pictures of rural life and scenery fascinating and its sentiment wholly delightful. Sainte Beuve called it a little masterpiece," and Coro "a delicious idyll." The introduction gives sketch of the life, works and genius of George Sand and her influence upon French life.

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-INDUCTIVE ELEMENTARY PHYSICAL SCIENCE with inexpensive apparatus, and without laboratory equipment, by F. H. Bailey, (XXXI and 105 pp; 50c.), seems to be a very ingenious and practical guide for laboratory work by young pupils. The apparatus required is very simple, the pupil is put upon making his own inferences, and the method is distinctly individual, but such as can be readily applied in large classes. About one-third of the book is given to "auxiliary apparatus and experiments," for quicker pupils, who may do more or less of it and thus find full employment while the slower ones work out the first part alone. Some quantitative work is introduced in this auxiliary part. The experiments are in general very simple and easily performed by grammar grade pupils The book deserves the attention of those who are interested in developing science teaching in the grades.

-STORIES OF LONG AGO in a new dress, by Grace H. Kupfer, (177 pp.: 35c.), retells the Greek and Roman myths for young readers in attractive style. A number of poems from English classic writers and nineteen full-page pictures from great works of art add to the interest and value of this little volume.

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-LA POUDRE AUX YEUX, par Labiche et Martin, (86 pp.; 25c.), edited by Benjamin W. Wells, is a delightful bit of raillery at social pretenders, thoroly healthful in tone and full of sparkling humor.

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-ALEXANDER POPE, by Samuel Johnson, edited by Kate Stephens (197 pp.; offers in convenient form one of the best examples of English criticism for school use. Matthew Arnold recognized the great merit of Johnson's Lives of the Poets as a means of gaining an insight into English literary history and life, and this is one of the very best of them. It is itself an admirable example of good English writing, almost wholly free from those faults which later characterized Johnson's style. The editor has bestowed great pains upon the book, gathering into the extensive notes quotations and explanatory matter from a wide range of reading and has thus made the essay still more distinctly a means for studying the times as well as the man who was its leading literary light.

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-THE PRINCESS, by Alfred Tennyson (190 pp.; paper, 30c.)—a double number of the Riverside Series--is an exceedingly attractive book, with its numerous beautiful illustrations, and the valuable notes of William J. Rolfe. In this third edition the editor has been able to supply omissions as to original editions of the poem and to correct a few misprints.

-THE ÆNEID, Books I-III, translated by Christopher P. Cranch (paper 15c.), is a welcome addition to the Riverside Series. No other English metrical translation approaches this in its truth to the spirit and meaning of the original. It is vigorous, dignified and musical, and may give to English readers some true sense of the power of original.

-THE FLIGHT OF A TARTAR TRIBE, by Thomas De Quincey, edited by Milton Haight Turk (78 pp.; cloth, 25c.), one of the fascinating narratives by this master of English narration, has in this edition a biographical sketch of the author, a chronological table of his times, and abundant

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-DIE JOURNALISTEN, a comedy in four acts, by Gustav Freytag, edited by J. Norton Johnson (171 pp.; 35c.), is one of the best representatives of modern German drama, well edited, with full vocabulary and attractively printed and bound in boards.

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