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fell into the hands of the French and was carried off as one of th^ 

 spoils of war. So widely celebrated had the specimen become 

 during the fifteen years which had elapsed since its discovery, 

 through the writings of several noted scientific men, that the Frencn 

 general commanded his artillerists to spare the house in which it 

 was known to be. The canon, however, shrewdly suspecting that 

 such an unexpected and extraordinary mark of favor was not for 

 his own sake but rather for the sake of the famous fossil, had it 

 removed and carefully hidden in a house in the city. After the 

 capitulation of Maestricht the eagerly sought for fossil was not to 

 be found, and the offer of a reward of six hundred bottles of wine, 

 so the story goes, was made for its recovery. So tempting was the 

 offer that, ere long, it was brought in triumph to the house of St. 

 Faujas de Fond, by a half-dozen grenadiers, whence it was later 

 transferred to Paris, where it now is." 



Physics of the Household. C. J. Lynde. pp. xi + 313. The 

 Macmillan Co. $1.25. 



This book will be of interest to teachers of nature-study because 

 of the wealth of illustrative material suggested that can be drawn 

 from the home and common environment. The arrangement of 

 the book is the arrangement of any ordinary book on Physics, 

 taking up in successive chapters such subjects as mechanics, heat, 

 electricity, light, sound, but the applications are to the common- 

 place things of life and not to laboratory apparatus. Thus levers 

 of the second class are illustrated by the can opener, nut cracker, 

 lemon squeezer, and fruit press, diagrams of which are given to 

 show the position of fulcrum, weight arm, and power arm. Pre- 

 vious text books on physics have cited many of these household 

 objects illustrative of the principle involved, but have not given 

 so conspicuous a place to them nor provided such abundant illus- 

 trations of their construction and operation. 



The book, of course, is not intended for use in the grades, yet it 

 might well be added to the grade library and utilized by the teacher 

 especially of the upper grades. 



The Childhood of the World. Edward Clodd. pp. xiii + 240. 

 $1.25. 

 This book, as the subtitle indicates, is a simple account of man's 

 origin and early history. It will be of interest to the teacher in 



