708 TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION Ll. 
That secondary teachers are beginning to feel some active steps should be 
taken to remedy these defects is shown by the recent publication of Mathematical 
Monographs, a book in which busy schoolmasters can find succinct and lucid 
discussions from a philosophical standpoint of the subjects they have to deal 
with in teaching scholarship work. Furthermore, there is a very suggestive 
paper in the School World of last June by Dr. Charles Davison, of Birming- 
ham, on Mathematical Essays historically and pedagogically treated. 
In conclusion, how to get and keep the pupils’ interest amidst the discourag- 
ing difficulties of the more advanced mathematics, and how the master shall 
keep his own knowledge fresh and thoroughly up to date, constitute a fertile, 
almost untraversed, field of pedagogic inquiry. 
(iv) The Present Position of Mathematical Teaching. 
By W. D. Eaaar, M.A. 
