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Handicraft for Handy People. By an Amateur Mechanic; 

 I2mo, pp. xii. — 233. (Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son. 1885.) 



Plain and good instructions will be found here on the choice and use of Tools, 

 Carpentery, House-painting, Paper-hanging, etc. Seventy-five illustrations 

 are given. The handy man or youth will find this book useful. 



Sanitary Suggestions ; or, How to Disinfect our Houses. 



Prepared for Popular perusal. By B. W, Palmer, A.M., M.D. pp. 58. 

 (Detroit (Mich.) U.S.A. : Geo. S. Davis. 1885.) Price 25c. 



A resume of the latest Information in the Household use of Disinfectants, 

 Deodrants, and Antiseptics ; and of Practical Precautions Preventive of 

 Cholera, Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, and other Infectious Diseases ; worth care- 

 ful reading. 



Healthy Foundations of Houses. By Glenn Brown. 



l8mo, pp. xi. — 143. (New York : D. Van Nostrand. 1885.) Price 50c. 



A reprint of a series of papers published in the " vSanitary Engineer." It 

 treats of Natural Foundations, Drainage, Foundation Walls, etc. There are 

 51 illustrations. 



Civil Service Arithmetical Examination Papers. By 



Laurence J. Ryan. i2mo, pp. 153. (Dublin: M. H. Gill and Son ; London: 

 Whittaker and Co. 1885.) 



This book, now in its 34th thousand, gives examples of questions likely to 

 be met with in Civil Service and Competitive Examinations. The author, a 

 teacher of long experience, believes that if the student will make himself 

 acquainted with all the questions in this book, he cannot fail to receive very 

 high marks in his examination. 



Intellectual Arithmetic, upon the Inductive Method of 



Instruction. By Warren Colbourn, A.M. Post 8vo, pp. xii. — 216. (Boston, 

 U.S.A.: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co. 1886.) Price 35c. 



In noticing this book, we cannot do better than quote Mr. G. B. Emerson, 

 an eminent Massachusetts educator: — " It evolves in the mind of the learner 

 himself, in a perfectly easy and natural manner, a knowledge of the principles 

 of arithmetic, and the power of solving mentally, and almost instantly, every 

 question likely to occur in the every-day business of common life." 



Arithmetic. By A. G. Blake, M.A. Post 8vo, pp. 197. 



(Dublin : Alex. Thom and Co. 1885.) 



A practical little book ; the various rules are given in so simple a manner, 

 that the learner will have but little difficulty in grasping their meaning. The 

 sums throughout the book are by no means difficult, and we have pleasure in 

 recommending the book for junior schools. 



Arithmetic Primer : A Guide for Elementary Instruction in 

 Arithmetic according to the " Kindergarten " method. By Friedrich Krancke. 

 Translated by Miss Bickell, of Leeds. 8vo, pp. no. (London: Simpkin, 

 Marshall, and Co. 1885.) 



The "kindergarten " is doubtless a capital method for teaching very little 

 children, and the instructions here given are as simple as it is possible for 

 them to be. 



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