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The notes are sensible, and not overdone, and the Introduction is helpful."-Athenæum. "The Notes are clear, to the point, and brief, and for the most part excellent."Standard. MACBETH. 25.; paper cover, Is. 6d. Edited by the SAME. "A very excellent, text, very ably annotated."-Standard. "The plan of giving a brief sketch of each character in the play lends additional interest to it for the young learner. The notes are mainly explanatory, and serve the same useful purpose of clearing away difficulties from the path of the young reader. Of all school Shaksperes, this CORIOLANUS. seems to us considerably the best."Educational Times. "Macbeth' is now added to these handy, neatly printed, and well-annotated editions of Shakspere's Plays. Mr. Moberly's historical and critical 'remarks in the Introduction will be of great value to the student."-Record. 2s. 6d. ; paper cover, 25. Edited by ROBERT WHITELAW, M.A., Assistant-Master in Rugby School, formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. "The way in which the play is edited displays careful scholarship, and the whole edition is extremely well adapted for school use."-Educational Times. "This number of the Rugby Edition of HAMLET. and Select Plays of Shakspere we think the best of the series. There is more effort than before to bring out the characteristics of the central figure of the play, the Notes are fuller, and the glossary too."-Athenæum, 25. 2s. 6d. ; paper cover, Edited by the Rev. CHARLES E. MOBERLY, M.A. 'Surely these are good times for students of our literature. The number of scholarly, well-edited handbooks, and annotated editions of masterpieces, both in prose poetry, is continually augmenting. The introductions in this edition are particularly good, rising above the dull level of antiquarianism into a region of intelligent and sympathetic comment and analysis not THE TEMPEST. often reached in school-books. We know by experience that Shakspere may be so read in schools as to combine a considerable amount of philological and grammatical teaching with a cultivation of the imagination and taste, perhaps more serviceable still. The Rugby Edition will do well either for school or home reading."-London Quarterly Review. Edited by J. SURTEES PHILLPOTTS, M.A., Assistant-Master in Rugby School, formerly Fellow of New College, Oxford. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. [In the Press. Edited by the SAME. [In the Press. (See Specimen Page, No. 1.) LONDON, OXFORD, AND CAMBRIDGE. Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel. Rugby Edition. Edited with an Introduction, Notes, and Glossary, by J. SURTEES PHILLPOTTS, M.A., Assistant-Master at Rugby School, formerly Fellow of New College, Oxford. Small 8vo. Uniform with the Select Plays of Shakspere. [In the Press. A Practical Introduction to English Prose Composition. An English Grammar for Classical Schools, with Questions, and a Course of Exercises. By THOMAS KERCHEVER ARNOLD, M.A. Ninth Edition. 12mo. 4s. 6d. LONDON, OXFORD, AND CAMBRIDGE. MATHEMATICS Rivington's Mathematical Series The following Schools, amongst many others, use this Series:-Eton: Harrow: Winchester: Marlborough: Shrewsbury: Charterhouse: Cheltenham Clifton College: City of London School: Haileybury: Tonbridge: Durham Fettes College, Edinburgh: H.M.'s Dockyard School, Sheerness: The College, Hurstpierpoint : King William's College, Isle of Man : St. Peter's, Clifton, York: Birmingham: Bedford: Felsted: Christ's College, Finchley: Liverpool: Windermere: Eastbourne: Brentwood. OPINIONS OF TUTORS AND SCHOOLMASTERS. "I beg to state that I have used Mr. Hamblin Smith's various mathematical works extensively in my Lecture Room in this College, and have found them admirably adapted for class teaching. A person who carefully studies these books will have a thorough and accurate knowledge of the subjects on which they treat." -From H. A. 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Here the pupil will always find the figure facing the text, and, I may add, I have never seen a work on Geometry in which the figures of the IVth Book so forcibly strike the eye with their meaning. Smith has eliminated the so-called Rule of Three from his Arithmetic, and substituted the more rational method of First Principles. Mr. Both the Algebra and Trigonometry are well suited for Schools. Numerous illustrative examples worked out with wellchosen collections for practice will be found in his Statics and Hydrostatics. In all cases the answers are given at the end of each work. I consider Mr. Smith has supplied a great want, and cannot but think that his works must command extensive use in good schools."-From J. Henry, B.A., Head-Master, H.M. Dockyard School, Sheerness, and Instructor of Engineers, R.N. "We have used your Algebra and Trigonometry extensively at this School from the time they were first published, and I thoroughly agree with every mathematical teacher I have met, that, as school textbooks, they have no equals. The care you have taken to make clear every step, and especially those points which always used to baffle the boy-intellect, has rendered these subjects capable of being read, both in the time it usually took to read one. The ample supply of easy problems at the end of each chapter enables the student to acquire confidence in his own powers, and taste for his work-qualities, as every teacher knows, indispensable to success. We are introducing your Euclid gradually into the School."--From Rev. B. Edwardes, Senior Mathematical Master at the Col lege, Hurstpierpoint, Sussex. "The Algebra is the gem of the series, especially as compared with other works on the same subject-no point is left unexplained, and all is made perfectly clear. 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