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(.•\cr, it i> pinh.ihly heller llian rillKT. CV'rlaiiiI\- llie student 

 interested in ihe l)a>is of classification will tinil this a clear pre- 

 sentation i>\ the suhject. The hook is a linio of 2M pages 

 and is puhlisjied hy Lea and Kehii^^-r, lMiiladel[)hia. 



A new lalxiralory Mannal fur the stndv of hiojogv is 

 W . 11. \y Meiers' "Stndy of Kivini;' Thiiii^s". it consists of 

 a ])ad ot ')() sheets, each sheet containin,^' \arious (jueslions to 

 he answered on a ,y;i\"en suhject rani^ing from algae and garden- 

 making to teeth, iiouseflies antl hulh-growing. The (juestions 

 are pertinent and well selected hut it strikes the reviewer that 

 a few are rather impraclicahle. at least with students in second- 

 ary schools. Take the fourth exercise, for instance, in which 

 the student is asked to discuss tiie helpful and harmful factors 

 in the environment of a plant and to decide whether the plant 

 is spreading or losing ground. I'his could scarcely he decid- 

 ed with an}- degree of accuracy h}- a child in a single season. 

 (^Ider students would (Ind such an exercise less difficult and 

 e\en the average teacher might discover food for th<»ught in 

 many of the ([uestions. The work is hound in paper covers 

 and puhlislied hy Ginn & Co. The price is 80 cents. , 



At a time like the present, when eminent Chautauqua 

 lectures and Southern legislators are doing their best to con- 

 vince the [)ul)lic that there is no such thing as change, a re- 

 print of Samuel Christian Schnmcker's "The Meaning of Evo- 

 luti(»n" is most appropriate. It is not likelv that any thinking 

 person really doubts the facts of evolution, though like the 

 scientists, themselves, he may question the explanations of 

 many of its phenomena. Dr. Schmucker's h(K;k is an ele- 

 mentary treatise, de\(>iil oi technicalities and designed to meet 

 the needs of the general reader. In twelve chapters covering 

 upwards of 300 pages, he discusses the evolution of the idea of 

 evolution with a reasonableness that must appeal to jll who 



