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An Easy Guide to Scripture Animals, being a Description 

 of all the Animals mentioned in the Bible. J>y Vernon S. Morwood. Crown 

 8vo, pp. 184. (London: John Hogg.) Price is. 6d. 



The animals are described in alphabetical order. After the description 

 will be found a series of questions which will assist the memory, Bible refer- 

 ences, and an anecdote. There are thirty fairly good illustrations and a 

 vocabulary explanatory of words used in the book. The book is designed and 

 very suitable for school and home use. 



Sunlight. By the author of " The Interior of the Earth." 

 Second edition, with alterations and additions. Crown Svo, pp. xii. — ^180. 

 (London : Triibner and Co. 1887.) 



Perhaps we cannot better describe this clever little work than by quoting 

 the concluding words of the author's preface : — " In the confusion now exist- 

 ing there is ample room for the serious consideration of my simple suggestion, 

 that light was the first cause of the creation of the earth, acting on a nebulous 

 mass that held in it gases or material sensitive to, absorptive and retentive of 

 that light." 



Mechanics and Experimental Science, as required for the 

 Matriculation Examination of the University of London. By Edward Ave- 

 ling, D.Sc. Crown Svo, pp. viii. — 263. (London: Chapman and Hall. 

 1888.) Price 6s. 



This is one of the series of Science volumes, which the author is bringing 

 out specially to meet the requirements of students practising for the London 

 Matriculation Examination under the new regulations which have just come 

 into force. The present work treats of mechanics, and a great feature of the 

 book is the very lucid explanations given to each branch of this, to many 

 young students, difficult study. It is divided into three sections, under the 

 titles of Kinematics, Dynamics, and Statics. The chapters on " Acceleration," 

 "Falling Bodies," "Composition and Resolution of Velocities," for example, 

 are so carefully handled, and the specimen questions so fully worked out, that 

 we confidently recommend the book to private students, feeling assured that it 

 will help them. Besides numerous examples, a number of London, Cam- 

 bridge, and other examination papers are given at the end of the book. 



Educational Topics of the Day : Chips from a Teacher's 

 Workshop. By L. R. Klemm, Ph.D. pp. 408. (Boston: Lee and She- 

 pard. 1888.) 



Many of the articles in this book have appeared in some of the leading 

 educational journals in America. In them the author gives us his mode of 

 thinking and discussing and his manner of teaching. Those engaged in educa- 

 tion will doubtless consider some of these chips worth preserving. The book 

 is divided into ten chapters, among which we find " Some Principles and 

 Methods of Teaching," " The Art of Questioning," etc. 



Notes on the Birds of Herefordshire. Contributed by 

 Members of the Woolhope Club. Collected and arranged by the late Henry 

 Graves Bull, M.D., etc. 8vo, pp. xxx. — 274. (London: Hamilton, Adams, 

 and Co. Hereford : Jakeman and Carver. 1888.) 



These notes are not a formal treatise on the structure and classification of 

 the birds of Herefordshire, but rather familiar reminiscences of homely 

 favourites, notices of their every-day habits, and of the superstitions connected 

 with them, with many amusing anecdotes derived from personal observation. 

 Dr. Ball delighted in tracing out the allusions to birds which may be found in 



