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to urge that there can be little lucidity 

 among an accumulation of relatively unim- 

 portant, if erudite, detail. The experience 

 of every teacher or listener will establish 

 that point. Professor Tucker appears to 

 have selected from the extensive material 

 at his command those portions that are vital 

 to the construction of his plan. Fortunately 

 the author has not made the mistake of 

 attempting to elaborate or refine, or other- 

 wise to emulate the dictionaries of antiqui- 

 ties, although he has incorporated unob- 

 trusively in this "Life in Ancient Athens," 

 the results of all due study of the latest re- 

 search, as well as the conclusions of many 

 years of professional intimacy with Athe- 

 nian antiquity. 



The Cycloivedia of Social Usage. By 



Helen L. Roberts. New York : G. P. 



Putnam's Sons 1913. Cloth, Svo. 570 



pp. Price, $2.o0 net. 



A book on etiquette is worth doing care- 

 fully and very completely. It serves to 

 warn, to comfort and command the aspirant 

 to a finely correct social manner, and gently 

 but authoritatively guide him in the right 

 way of entering a drawing-room, playing his 

 knife and fork, and leading his bride from 

 the altar. The author of The Cyclopaedia 

 of Social Usage has compressed between 

 the covers of this volume a perfectly full 

 and perfectly exact interpretation of the 

 whole code that regulates our intimate so- 

 cial intercourse. The volume is a treasury 

 of information regarding the gracious cour- 

 tesies as practised indoors and out, at home 

 or abroad. 



There is no more reason one should feel 

 embarrassed in the possession of such a 

 book than in the possession of any other 

 sort of a manual, inasmuch as social usage 

 is less fixed than the laws of the Medes and 

 the Persians, except at the exact period the 

 various phases of etiquette are in vogue, and 

 keeping up with etiquette is an important 

 adjunct to native good manners and good 

 borning. 



The Old Gardens of Italy and How 

 to Visit Them. By Mrs. Aubrey Le 

 Blond. Xew York : John Lane Com- 

 pany. 1912. Cloth, Svo. Illustrated. 

 173 pages. Price, $1.25 net. 

 The old gardens of Italy owe much of 

 their charm to their entire suitability to the 

 house, its occupants, and the climate. To 

 transport their schemes bodily to America 

 or England must always be a mistake, for 

 it is not the garden itself, but the lessons 

 that its designers have taught for all time, 

 that one should carry home. "The Old 

 Gardens of Italy," by Mrs. Aubrey Le 

 Blond, is a delightful emphasis to this fact 

 inasmuch as it points out gardens not to 

 be missed by the garden lover who travels 

 abroad, forming a handy guide for inti- 

 mate companionship where such works as 

 'The Art of Garden Design in Italy," by 

 H. Inigo Triggs and Elgood's beautiful 

 "Italian Gardens" would be too ponderous 

 for carrying on a journey. 



Sixty Lessons in Agriculture. By Burt 



C. Buffum, M.S., and David Clement 



Leaver. Xew York : American Book 



Company: 1913. Cloth, 12mo, 272 pages, 



illustrated. Price, 80 cents. 



This is an easy and interesting book for 



the sixth, seventh, and eighth grades; both 



in subject matter and in language it is well 



within the grasp of pupils of these grades. 



The lessons cover such a wide range of 



topics that the book is adapted to every 



section of the country. The treatment is 



by no means technical, and consequently 



the book can be used even in schools whose 



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