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number of days between any two dates would be 
improved by a grouping of the rows. Subsequent 
chapters deal with compound interest, various kinds 
of discount, bills of exchange, shares, mixtures, and 
with examples involving general tables of weights and 
measures, English and French. Collected answers are 
given at the end, and altogether the book is very 
cleverly written, and seems eminently suited for use 
on the commercial side of the numerous technical and 
secondary schools of the country. 
(5) This book is practically the authors’ “ Junior 
Arithmetic,’’ with the chapters on the first four rules 
replaced by sets of examples for revision. It is in- 
tended for the middle and lower forms of secondary 
schools, and is specially adapted to the requirements 
of the Oxford, Cambridge, and Scotch local examin- 
and the like. The explanations of the rules 
are condensed, and the bool contains a very large 
collection of examples, and is printed both with and 
ations 
without answers. 
(6) The volume by Mr. Borchardt is based on the 
author’s ‘* Arithmetical Types and Examples,’’ but 
with many additions; the explanations and statements 
of the rules are left entirely to the teacher, the sets 
of examples being well chosen and carefully grouped. 
The book is suitable for use under conditions similar 
to those stated under No. 5. 
(7) Clive’s ** New Shilling Arithmetic ’ 
of exercises and problems, 
) 
is mainly 
a_ collection with such 
statements and definitions of rules as a pupil might 
profitably commit to memory. It covers largely the 
same ground as the two previous books, all three 
having been. much influenced by the recent reforms 
in mathematical teaching. The book be had 
with answers at a small extra cost. 
(8) The ‘* Junior Practical Mathematics ’’ is intended 
for use in preparatory and public elementary schools 
and in the lower forms of secondary schools. The 
book is divided into two parts, which may be obtained 
either separately or together, and with or without 
Part i. is mainly arithmetical, but the 
numerical worl: supplemented throughout by 
algebraical and graphical work. This part contains, 
amongst other things, the four simple rules, practice, 
brackets, areas, volumes and weights, graphs, frac- 
can 
answers. 
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tions, indices, logarithms, proportion, percentages, 
interest, approximations, and contracted methods. 
Part ii., which is chiefly geometrical, includes 
elementary plane geometry, orthographic projection 
and descriptive geometry, and some mensuration. In 
both parts the sequence is unusual, and seems some- 
what erratic. The book is well supplied with a good 
variety of examples and exercises. 
(9) The preface to this suggestive book is written 
by Mrs. Boole, who is the originator of the method 
described in its pages, a system which well deserves 
the sympathetic consideration of educational re- 
formers. The leading idea is, working on untutored 
minds, to find ‘‘a means of introducing little children 
to the conception of a connection between organic 
thought-sequence and the evolution of harmonious 
form.’’ The means employed is simple embroidery 
in coloured threads; by following some simple rule 
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‘‘a graceful curve such as he has perhaps never 
before seen or imagined, grows up under his hands, 
as if by miracle.’’ One such is the curve of pur- 
suit. The method has been successfully carried out 
by Mrs. Somervell and others, and has developed into 
a system of geometrical design which Mrs. Boole un- 
hesitatingly believes ‘‘is a working possibility as a 
means of truly national evocation of creative and 
organising power.’’ In order to encourage the spread 
of the system sets of curve-sewing apparatus have 
been designed, and can be procured at a moderate 
cost. 
THE ZOOLOGIST AND SPORTSMAN IN 
BRITISH COLUMBIA. 
Camp-fires in the Canadian Rockies. By . Dr. 
William T. Hornaday. Pp. xvii+353; illustrated. 
(London: T. Werner Laurie, 1906.) Price 16s. net. 
OST sporting -books leave the distasteful 
NM impression that the hunter’s main interest in 
wild animals is that they are something to Ixill—the 
bigger the better. But this book shows us a hunter 
who, though ardent in the chase and glowing with 
its barbaric excitement and triumphs, has yet a con- - 
science in his slaying, and can, on occasion, find as 
keen pleasure in stalking without intent to kill, but 
only to observe and picture. So that while the sport- 
ing iman will find in the book a sufficient spice of 
hunting incident and success to stir the savage 
emotion, the less bloodthirsty reader also will find 
satisfaction in the moderation of this hunter and in 
his vivid presentment of the wild life of mountain 
and forest. 
The book is the record of a recreative holiday trip 
made in the autumn of 1905 by Dr. Hornaday, the 
Director of the New York Zoological Park, under 
the guidance of his friend Mr. Phillips, Pennsylvania 
State Game Commissioner, to a hunter’s paradise 
hidden away among the mountains of the south- 
eastern part of British Columbia, where, actually, 
on the first day of their coming, a band of mountain- 
goats stampeded through their very camp, almost 
upsetting the cook at his work! 
Here, and at a later camp, with the tangled forests 
below them and the stony peaks above, they spent 
their thirty days in great content, readily securing 
the few picked specimens of mountain-goat and 
sheep for which they had come; having also the 
additional luck to add a grizzly bear apiece to their 
trophies; and thereafter enjoying splendid though 
somewhat hazardous sport in striving, with success, 
to ‘break record’ in photographing their live game 
at close and still closer quarters among the precipices. 
Of these days in the ‘‘ home of the mountain-goat ”’ 
two only were given to hunting goats to shoot them. 
““We saw two hundred and thirty-nine individuals. 
. . It was because we shot little that we saw 
much.”’ 
Here is a charming picture of the kind of thing 
they saw :— 
‘‘ Rising into view out of a little depression on the 
farther side of the meadow, lazily sauntering along, 
there came ten big, snow-white billy goats! .. 
