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The Game of Draughts simplified and illustrated with 



practical diagrams. By Andrew Anderson. Fifth edition. Revised and 

 extended by Robert IM'Cullock, Glasgow. 8vo, pp. xxii, — 136. (Glasgow : 

 Tames P. Forrester. 1SS7.) Price is. 



Those who are not skilled players will do well to study this little book. 

 It contains Instructions, Names of the Games and How Formed, Standard 

 Laws, Theory of the Moves, and Series of Elementary Positions, and a large 

 numbers of played-out Games, Problems, and Solutions. 



Guide to the Student in Botany. 



Outline of the First-year Course in Natural Science. 



By Edward S. Burgess. 



Two little works intended to supply students in the Washington High 

 School, with outlines for their course of study in Botany and Natural Science. 

 AH students will find the outline instructions here given most useful. 



Moffatt's Geography of the British Empire. 

 The Earth and Solar System. 

 Mountains and Rivers. 



i2mo, pp. 89, 103, 78. (London: Moffatt and Paige.) Price is. each. 

 These three little books give a large amount of information in a condensed 

 form. 



A Key to the Mysteries of Water, Electricity, and Heat. By 



William Baggatt. Crown 8vo, pp. 70. (London : Triibner and Co. 18S8.) 

 Price IS. 



In this little book the author submits to the judgment of Scientists who 

 can divest themselves of their preconceived ophn'ons, certain facts respecting 

 the nature and properties of Electricity, which have for some time occupied 

 his thoughts. 



The Gardener's Receipt Book : a Treasury of Interesting 



Facts and Practical Information useful in Horticulture. By William Jones. 

 Sixth edition. l2mo, pp. 122. (London : Groombridge and Sons. 1888.) 

 Price IS. 



We are told here the most effectual method for the destruction or 

 removal of everything injurious to the garden ; with preventatives and cures 

 for the various diseases of plants, and directions for the preservation of trees, 

 fruits, and flowers. 



Songs of a Parish Priest. By Rev. Basil Edwards, M.A. 



l2mo, pp. xiii. — 141. (Orpington, Kent : George Allen. 1888.) 



A little volume of poems, of which the author says in his preface — "The 

 quiet of a country charge has enabled the writer to endeavour to link together 

 many of the objects most prominently connected with sacred thought in a rural 

 parish, and to present the results to the reader in somewhat of a sequence, 

 leading step by step from the lych-gate to the altar." 



The Divine Programme of the World's History. By 

 Mr. and Mrs. Grattan-Guinness. 8vo, pp. viii. — 455. (London : Hodder 

 and Stoughton. 1S88.) Price 7s. 6d. 



The aim of this volume is apologetic. Its argument is based on the Old 

 Testament canon, " When the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then 

 shall the prophet be known that the Lord hath truly sent him." The subject 



