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(17) Problem: Why have sheep and oxen no biting teeth in 

 the upper jaw ? 



(18) Which of the four anthropoid apes most nearly re- 

 sembles man ? 



(19) Is the giraffe more nearly related to the horse, the 

 stag, or the ox ? 



(20) Who was the " old Electress Sophia," and what was 

 the great ambition of her later years ? 



(21) The "Snow King" was killed in battle, and the 

 *' Winter King " died soon after he received the intelligence. 

 Name the battle and the two kings. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS RECEIVED. 



County Histories for School Reading. — We have 

 recently received a copy of Mr. Maiden's " School History of 

 Surrey." It is one of the excellent series of county histories 

 now being published by Messrs. Methuen (36, Essex Street, 

 Strand, W.C.), which deserve all praise. It reminds us of 

 the fortunate position of the school children of the present 

 day. In our younger days such books were unknown, and 

 the chapters of the history — archaeological and other — of any 

 county were hidden in the Transactions of its Archaeological 

 Society. These were always expensive and often difficult to 

 obtain. All this is now changed, and every child may read a 

 succinct account of the county in which he lives for the modest 

 outlay of eighteenpence. The volume before us should find a 

 place in every library and village reading-room in the county. 

 It contains fifty-three illustrations ^and maps. One of these, 

 a portrait of a Surrey worthy, we are, through the courtesy 

 •of the publishers, enabled to reproduce. 



We give this portrait of a great Surrey Socialist as an 



