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School training for the home duties of women. III. The domestic train- 

 ing: of girls in Germany and Austria i lid. i',iL [ LiiikIdh \. S/xc. Rpls. Ed. 

 Subjects, lit {t!)07), pp. 12] + .\'VI). — This is tlio third aiul coneludin;; number 

 of the special reports on the school traiuiuK for home duties for women. It in- 

 chules (1) introductory and concluding articles on the general education of 

 girl.s history of domestic training, and extent of domestic training in Germany 

 and Avistria : and discusses (2) the teaching of domestic subjects in elementary 

 and continuation schools: (3) the teaching of domestic subjects in secondary 

 schools; (4) domestic subjects in technical schools and classes; and (ii) technical 

 teachers in girls' schools. Twelve apiiendixes contain specimen accounts and 

 lesson plans and extracts of syllabi and courses of study of individual schools, 

 as well as summaries of regulations of several groups of schools. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Annual report of agricultural experiment station at Marburg for 1907-8. 

 C. Hasklhofk iJalircsber. Landw. Vers. Stat. Marburg, 1D07-8, pp. 22), — This 

 gives the organization of the station and an account of its work and publica- 

 tions during the year. 



A brief review of the investigations conducted by the Government Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, Groningen, from 1895 to 1907, U. Sjoi.lema 

 ( Kort Ovcrzicht run ilc Oiidcrtochiiii/rii Verrlcht in het Rijkshindbouivproef- 

 station te Groninycn, in de Jarrn lS9'>-j:i07. \(ironingrn\: Govt., 1901, pp. 19). 



Agricultural report for the year 1906, Y. IIknry ((Joiirt. Gen. Afrique 

 Occident, Franc., Rap. Agr. 1906, pp. 310, figs. 63, maps 11). — This I'eport de- 

 scribes the organization of the agricultural service, the ex[)eriment stations, 

 and the agricultural resources and possibilities of western French-Africa. 



Agricultural writers, 1200 to 1800, D. McDonai.d ( London, 1908, pp. 228, 

 ilhis. 91). — 'J'his consists of reproductions in facsimile and extracts from 

 ilie writings of English agricultural writers from Sir AValter of Henley, 1200, to 

 .\rthur Young, isno, together with brtef biographies and explanator.v notes. A 

 chronological bibliouniphy is appended. 



Batten's agricultural directory (Xeic York, 1908, pp. 212). — A directory of 

 the agricultural r)ress of the United States and Canada, with a discussion of 

 agricultural conditions in these countries and statistics of farm jiroducts and 

 values by States and Provinces. 



Index to the first twenty volumes of bulletin de I'Association des Chi- 

 mistes de Sucrerie et de Distillerie, L. rii.i.ir { Assorintion d(s Cliinii.strs dc 

 Sucreric et de Distillerie. Table des Mutieres drs Vingt I'nniiers ]'oluniefs, 

 1882-1902. Paris, 1901. pp. 203). 



General Index, Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of 

 Canada, first and second series, 1882-1906 ( Othttni. Toronto, and London. 

 1!»ix. lip. 1.f3). 



