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Maps and Plans. i2mo, pp. 580. (Edinburgh and London : William Pater- 

 son. 1 887.) Price 6s. ... 

 Two most useful books for the tourist, giving him such information as will 

 enable hiin intelligently to visit all places (jf importance in the United King- 

 dom. Most of the routes are arranged on the main lines of railway, but many 

 outlying places of interest are not omitted. Both books contain a number of 

 small but very well executed maps, plans of towns and cathedrals. The plans 

 of towns we consider exceedingly good. 



Oxford, Cambridge, and London Arithmetic Questions, 

 with Answers from Stewart's Home and Class Book of Arithmetical Questions. 

 By John Stewart. Post 8vo, pp. 440. Price is. 6d. 



This consists of Tables ; Oxford and Cambridge Worked-Out Examples ; 

 London University and College of Preceptors' Papers ; and Oxford and Cam- 

 bridge Local Examination Papers from 1S64 to 1884, with Answers. We 

 recommend a youth to work out some of these problems before going up for 

 his exam. 



The Ruling Principle of Method applied to Education. 



By Antonio Rosmini Serbati, translated by Mrs. William Grey. Crown 8vo, 

 pp. XXV.— 363. (Boston, U.S.A. : D. C. Heath and Co. 18S7.) Price 

 $1.50. 



This learned Italian writer, who died before the completion of his work, 

 divided the life of a child into several stages or periods — the first from birth 

 and extending about six weeks ; the second ending with the child's first articu- 

 late word or about the end of the first year. The work of Rosmini reaches to 

 the fifth period, which seems to extend to the time when, as is commonly said, 

 the child accpiires the free use of reason. We have in this book first a sketch 

 of the life of Rosmini ; the rest of the work is divided into two books : — L — 

 On the Ruling Principle of Method ; H.— Its Application to Little Children. 



The American Sunday-School. By John H. Vincent. Post 

 8vo, pp. 344. (London: Sunday School Union. 1887.) Price 3s. 6d. 



This book is based upon what is sometimes called " the American idea of 

 Sunday-school work," and is to some extent a report of the American Sunday- 

 school system in actual operation. The author has himself served as teacher, 

 superintendent, pastor, and normal-class conductor, and for 35 years has been 

 a close and careful observer of the Sunday-schools on both sides of the ocean. 

 We can recommend the book to teachers of both sexes. 



The Unwritten Record : A Story of the "World We Live 



On. By James Crowther, with an Introductory Note by J. R. Macduff, D.D. 

 Crown 8vo, pp. viii. — 176. (London : Sunday-School Union.) Price 2s. 6d. 

 The very popular author of this little broclmre appears to have a happy 

 way of harmonising the utterances of the two great volumes of Nature 

 and Revelation, and making the one the exponent and interpreter of the 

 other. He most certainly has done so in the present case. Amongst the 

 many interesting chapters are the following : — The Pre-Adamite World ; The 

 First Day ; The Earth's Surface ; Corals and Coral Reefs ; A Ramble in a 

 Chalk Beil, and many others, which our young friends will do well to read. 



Ancient Nineveh : A Story for the Young, with numerous 



illustrations. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Crown Svo, pp. 115. 

 (London : Sunday School Union.) Price is. 6d. 



Tells us the Bible history of Nineveh, her Classic History, and her History 



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