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matter is very much abridged, many unimportant theorems being" 

 inserted as exercises. The treatment of the Theory of Limits is 

 very much simplified. Historical notes are introduced extensively 

 and add much to the value of the book. 



7. Moral Instruction and Training in Schools. Report of an 

 International Inquiry. Two volumes, edited by M. E. Sadler. 

 Vol. I, The United Kingdom ; pp. lv, 538. Vol. II, Foreign 

 and Colonial; pp. xxvii, 378. — The investigations which have 

 yielded the results given in these volumes had their origin in a 

 private conference held in London in the autumn of 1906, to 

 consider what steps could be taken to improve the moral instruc- 

 tion and training in schools. A provisional committee was 

 appointed at that time and, later, the council was joined by 

 several hundred persons, an executive committee being appointed 

 on February 5, 1907. A committee for the United States was 

 also selected with Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler as chairman. 



Volume I contains, after the introduction by Prof. M. E. Sadler, 

 a series of 33 chapters by different authors, discussing the subject 

 from different standpoints in its relation to schools in Great 

 Britain and Ireland. The second volume continues the discussion 

 in a series of 24 chapters, as related to the schools of France, 

 Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, the United 

 States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. A large and 

 varied amount of information is thus presented to the interested 

 public. 



8. Practical Exercises in Physical Geography ; by William 

 Morris Davis. Pp. 144, with atlas containing 45 pis. (45 pp.) 

 New York, 1908 (Ginn & Company).— The study of land forms, 

 as a part of the instruction in physical geography in high schools, 

 has not commended itself to a great many successful teachers. 

 The trouble has been that illustrations of different stages of the 

 development of land forms were not at hand. "Practical Exer- 

 cises" will do much to remedy this defect. The method of illus- 

 tration by block diagrams, as used in the " atlas," will readily 

 commend itself to all students of physical geography, h. e. g. 



9. Twenty-Sixth Annual Report of the JBureau of American 

 Ethnology. 1904-5. Pp. xxxi, 512, lviii plates, 117 figures. 

 Washington, 1908 (Government Printing Office). — The present 

 volume contains the adminstrative report of the Chief of the 

 Bureau, W. H. Holmes ; also two extended memoirs, one by 

 Frank Russell on the Pima Indians (pp. 3-389), and the second 

 by John R. Swanton on the Social Condition, Beliefs and Lin- 

 guistic Relationship of the Tlingit Indians of Alaska (pp. 391- 

 485). Both papers are liberally illustrated with excellent plates, 

 in addition to text-figures. 



Obituary. 



Dr. William K. Brooks, Professor of Zoology in Johns Hop- 

 kins University, and author of numerous important contributions 

 on zoological subjects, died in Baltimore on November 12 in his 

 sixty-first year. 



