it out. Then the combinations are extended until by steady practice great facility is acquired in adding columns. It contains some good suggestions for drill in adding and subtracting numbers.

GUIDES FOR SCIENCE-TEACHING. No. xiii. First Lessons on Minerals. By ELLEN H. RICHARDS. Boston: Ginn, Heath & Co. 1884. Mailing price,

IO cents.

Beginning with the observation of the characteristic qualities of a few familiar chemical elements, such as gold, silver, iron, oxygen, &c., children are led to their combination in well-known compounds, such as iron-rust, salt, marble, &c., and are prepared for the statement that about a dozen elements, in varied combinations, constitute the air, the water, and the solid crust of the earth, and that about a dozen more are common in small quantities.

A THOUSAND QUESTIONS ON AMERICAN HISTORY: An Outline of the History of the United States, in the form of Questions and Answers. Syracuse, N. Y. C. W. Bardeen, publisher. 1884. Price, $1.

The form used in this outline enables the author to take up the salient points of United States history, leaving out much of detail. The questions seem fairly to cover the ground, and the answers are clear, and in the main satisfactory.

WENTWORTH & HILL'S EXERCISE MANUALS. No. 3. Geometry. Boston: Ginn, Heath & Co. 1884. Mailing price, 80 cents.

The true test of mathematical training is the power which the learner has acquired over original problems. This little manual furnishes for geometry what has long been done for arithmetic and algebra-a collection of carefully graded exercises illustrating its principles. A syllabus of geometry is prefixed for convenience of reference and for reviewing of the subject.

SOPHOCLES' ANTIGONE. Edited on the basis of Wolff's Edition. By MARTIN L. D'OOGE, Professor of Greek in the University of Michigan. Boston: Ginn, Heath & Co. 1884. Mailing price, $1.

This is the first volume of the College Series of Greek Authors, edited under the supervision of J. W. White, L. R. Packard, and Thomas D. Seymour. The object of the series is to furnish, in rapid succession, editions of Greek authors, with notes which embody the best results of recent philological research. The plan contemplates complete editions of Homer, Thucydides and Herodotus, and of other Greek authors as far as practicable. The volumes of the series will be based upon approved German editions, whose introductions and notes will be freely translated into English, but the American editor will be at liberty to make such additions, substitutions and omissions as he deems necessary to adapt the books thoroughly to the use of college students in America. The publishers have given the series, as represented in the Antigone, a beautiful typographical form.

HOW WE LIVE; OR, THE HUMAN BODY AND HOW TO TAKE CARE OF IT. An Elementary Course in Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene. By JAMmes JOHONNOT and EUGENE BOUTON, Ph.D. New York: D. Appleton & Co., I, 3, 5 Bond street.

1884.

This is a very elementary, but an exceedingly entertaining treatment of this subject. Beginning with obvious relations, its method is deductive, each new topic growing

out of the one that precedes it. It aims to present the laws of life in such a practical and reasonable way that they will become a guide to living. At the close of each chapter questions, not on the text, but on subjects suggested by the text, are appended.

A MANUAL OF THE GYMNASTIC EXERCISES, as Practiced by the Junior Class in Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. Prepared under the direction of Dr. ED. HITCHCOCK, Professor of Physical Education and Hygiene. Boston: Ginn, Heath & Co. 1884. Mailing price 30 cents.

The manual gives directions for exercises in marching, and in the use of the dumb-bells, accompanied by some matters in reference to the measurements of the body and the muscles brought into play, which are of value to those interested in the physical development of pupils by these means.

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A HAND-BOOK OF LATIN SYNONYMS, based on Meissner's "Kurzgefasste Lateinische Synonymick." By EDGAR S. SHUMWAY, Acting Professor (in charge) of Latin, Rutger's College; Principal of Chautauqua Academia"; editor of "Latine." Boston: Ginn, Heath & Co. 1884. Mailing price 30 cents. The author has aimed not to give an exhaustive discussion of synonyms, but a terse compendium whose sections should be germs to be more fully developed by the student. The synonyms discussed are only those used in classical Latin; each group is headed by that English word which expresses the most general meaning of the group. Clearness and conciseness have been studied, and the book is designed to aid not only college students, but also the pupils of the preparatory school.

SCHOOL-ROOM CLASSICS-IX. SEX IN MIND AND IN EDUCATION. By HENRY MAUDSLEY, M. D. Author of "Body and Mind," &c. Syracuse, N. Y.: C. W. Bardeen, Publisher, 1884.

This tract presents some thoughts on the education required for men and for women that deserve careful consideration, else educators may do serious damage ere they are

aware.

A NATURALIST'S RAMBLES ABOUT HOME. By CHARLES C. ABBOTT. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1884. Price $1.50.

Our author has given us a delightful volume on the habits of the wild creatures which are found in the neighborhood of Bordentown, New Jersey. A fresh charm is imparted to the book by the fact that he tells in pleasant style of animals with which we are more or less familiar. The lover of natural history has a new pleasure in store for him in reading this volume.

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TEACHING AND TEACHERS; OR, THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHER'S TEACHING WORK AND THE OTHER WORK OF THE SUNDAYSCHOOL TEACHER. By H. CLAY TRUMBULL, D. D., editor of the Sunday School Times and formerly Normal Secretary of the American Sunday-school Union. Philadelphia: John D. Wattles, Publisher. 1884. Price $1.50.

Dr. Trumbull's work has been written with special reference to Sunday-school work and the methods of succeeding in it; yet it is full of thoughts of interest and value to the secular teacher. These thoughts are expressed clearly and are amply illustrated; in fact, his book as a whole is an illustration of the plans proposed in it.

Part I is entitled The S. S. Teacher's Work, and under this head he discusses The Teaching Process-Its Nature, Its Essentials, Its Elements, Its Methods. In Part II he discusses The S. S. Teacher's Other Work than Teaching-The Shaping and Guiding of Scholars. The book is not only a good one in its purpose and execution, but an exceedingly handsome one.

A GREEK GRAMMAR FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. By JAMES HADLEY, Late Professor in Yale College. Revised and in part rewritten by F. D. Allen, professor in Harvard College. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1884.

The grammar of Professor Hadley, the basis of the present grammar, appeared in 1860, and has been in use, unchanged in any way, since that time. The present editor has made various changes to bring it into nearer accord with the present state of learning. Some of these changes relate simply to the matter of arrangement, presenting more clearly the facts of the language; others, to the inflections and the formation of words; but especially in the syntax have great changes been made. Large credit is given in these last changes to Professor Goodwin, whose treatment of subordinate clauses has largely influenced the author's conclusions. The excellence of Hadley's grammar is too well established to need commendation. The labors of Professor Allen have, no doubt, made it still more valuable.

EDUCATION BY DOING. By ANNA JOHNSON, teacher in the Children's Aid Schools of New York City, with a prefatory note by Edward R. Shaw, of the High School at Yonkers, N. Y. New York: E. L. Kellogg & Co. Price, 60 cents. In no way, perhaps, could we give a better idea of the aim and method of this book than by the following quotation from the prefatory note: "In observing the results achieved by the Kindergarten educators, I have felt that Froebel's great discovery of education by occupations must have something for the public schools; that a further application of the putting of experience and action in the place of books and abstract thinking,' could be made beyond the fifth or sixth year of the child's life. This book is an outgrowth of this idea, conceived in the spirit of the New Education.'

"It will be widely welcomed, we believe, as it gives concrete methods of work, the very aids primary teachers are in search of. There is a general desire and demand for better methods. The principles enunciated by Spencer, that science is evolved out of its corresponding art,' and 'that the abstract is to be reached by way of the concrete,' are as true in their applications with reference to teachers as to pupils. And, therefore, whoever gives concrete methods, based upon right principles, is doing the most to aid the great body of teachers, and is laying the surest foundation for a recognition of the principles of the science of education." It indicates concrete methods of teaching Arithmetic, Form, Geography, Color, and Language.

FENNO'S FAVORITES, No. 2, is a neat, paper-bound volume of 264 pages, containing one hundred choice pieces for reading and speaking. The editor, Prof. F. H. Fenno, author of the well-known text-book "The Science and Art of Elocution,"

has introduced a preliminary essay on "How to Impersonate," which supplements that in FENNO'S FAVORITES, No. 1, on "The Principles of Gesture." A trained judgment is shown in the selections; they are fresh and well suited to elocutionary purposes. The print and paper are excellent.

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Literary Notes.

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The Magazines.

THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW FOR OCTOBER -Contents: Moral Character in Politics, Pres. J H. Seelye; Why I Wish to Visit America, Rev. Dr. Augustus Jessopp: The Philosophy of Conversion, O. B. Frothingham; The Origin of Yellow Fever, Dr. C. Creighton; Shall the Jury System be Abolished; Judge Ro. Y. Hayne; the Genesis of Tennyson's Maud, R. H. Shepherd; The Development of Machine Guns, Lieut. C. Sleeman; The Benefits of the Tariff System, John Roach and others.

THE AMERICAN NATURALIST FOR OCTOBER.-Contents: The North American Geasters (illustrated), A. P. Morgan; On Catagenesis, E. D. Cope; The Crystalline Rocks of the Northwest, N. H. Wincbell; Man in the Tertiaries, Ed. S. Morse; Editor's Table-Scientific Contrasts; Recent Literature; General Notes-Geography and Travels, Geology and Palænatology, Mineralogy, Botany, Entomology, Zoology, Physiology, Anthropology, Microscopy and Histology; Scientific News.

OUR LITTLE ONES OF THE NURSERY.-Full of good things for the little folks. Price $1.50. Russell Publishing Co., Boston, Mass.

POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.-Contents for October: The Significance of Human Anomalies, (illustrated); Measurement of Character: The Recent Progress of Physical Science; Man's Right Over Animals: Fetichism of the Bantu Negroes (illustrated); Further Remarks on the Greek Question; The Chemistry of Cookery; The Origin of Cultivated Plants; Wages, Capital and Rich Men; Du Motay's Process of Ice-Making; Physiological Aspect of Mesmerism; Protection Against Lightning-II; The Morality of Happiness; The Cholera Germ; Curious Funeral Ceremonies; Sketch of Professor Lord Rayleigh (with portrait); Editor's Table-The Scientists at Montreal, The Elevation of Phrases Above Things; Literary Notices; Popular Miscellany; Notes.

THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY-Contents for October: In War Time-XIX, XX, S. Weir Mitchell; The Battle of Lake George, Francis Parkman; Ave, Oliver Wendell Holmes; Relation of Fairies to Religion, E. R. Pennell; An English Literary Cousin, L. I. Guiney; The Lakes of Upper Italy-II; In Tuscany. Celia Thaxter; Minor Songsters, Bradford Torrey; Washington and his Companions Viewed Face to Face, George Houghton; Buckshot-A Record, J. H. Corbyn; Boating, A. M. Lord; The Migrations of the Gods, W. S. Liscomb; A Bourgeois Family, M. B. Wright; Southern Colleges and Schools, Charles Forster Smith; The Solitary Bee, Edith M. Thomas; Palmer's Odyssey; The Life of Bayard Taylor; The Contributors' Club; Books of the Month.

ST. NICHOLAS.-Contents for October: Frontispiece-"The Jester's Cap"; Slang; Resigned to His Fate, picture; The Story of King Rhoud, poem; The Biography of Richard, four illustrations and a portrait: The Dalzells of Daisydown; Braiding Mother's Hair, picture; Corny's Catamount-Tenth Spinning wheel Story, Louisa M. Alcott; Youth and Age verses; Lanty O'Hoolahan and the Little People, (five illustrations); The Romance of a Menagerie (two illustrations); Lost on the Plains (two illustrations), Joaquin Miller; Aunt Kitty and Her Canaries; "Letting the Old Cat Die," " Ho, for the Nutting-Grounds," pictures; Another Indian Invasion (eleven illustrations); Marvin and His Boy Hunters (concluded), two illustrations, by W. L. Sheppard; "Little Girl in the Glass, I Think I've Seen You Before," picture; A Fête-day in Brittany; Master Squirrel, poem, (full-page illustration; Historic Boys-Louis of Bourbon, The Boy King: "Stop!" Jingle (illustrated); Work and Play for Young Folk-An Announcement; On Teaching the Eye to Know What It Sees (nine illustrations); Our Young Artist, verses, (illustrated); For Very Little Folk-The Dog that Drove His Master's Cart, (illustrated); The St. Nicholas Almanac (illustrated); Jack-in-the-Pulpit (illustrated); The Letter Box; The Agassiz Association; The Riddle Box (illustrated).

THE OCTOBER CENTURY--which closes the twenty-eighth volume of this magazine-contains the announcements of some of the features of the coming magazine year, chief among which is a profusely illustrated series on " Battles and Leaders of the Civil War," most of which will be written by Generals, either upon the Federal or the Confederate side, actually in command during the various engagements. Prefatory to these articles is the opening paper in this number, on "Lights and Shadows of Army Life," by George F. Williams, the well-known war correspondent, whose descriptions and anecdotes of the camp, the march, and the battle-field, and reminiscences of famous generals, are sup plemented by engravings after the etchings of Edwin Forbes, the pictorial war correspondent.

LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE-For October contains: Along the Pictured Rocks, by D. D. Banta, (illustrated); A Twilight Reminiscence, by Philip Bourke Marston; Personal Reminiscences of Charles Reade (concluding paper), by John Coleman; Headstrong-A Story, by Elizabeth G. Martin; A School Without Text-Books by S. H. M. Byers; In an Orchard, by F. N. Zabriskie; Industries of Modern Greece, by Eunice W. Felton; A Lesson in Hochdeutsch-A Story, by Caroline R. Corson; Wit and Diplomacy in Dictionaries, by C. W. Ernst. Also a continuation of the charming serial story, A Week in Killarney, by the author of "Molly Bawn," " Phyllis," etc., and several chapters of Mary Agues Tincker's serial, Aurora; together with other short stories, poems, and articles of interest upon current topics.