46 Analyses of Books. f January, 
“ Corn-cockles ” is a botanical paper of a kind with which the 
public are by this time very familiar, and certainly does not 
require the author’s signature. 
The “ Story of a Courtship” literally swarms with dogs, like 
a side street in Constantinople. The constant presence of these 
obtrusive and mal-odorous animals in modern fidtion is no 
pleasant symptom. 
The “ New Hero,” amidst some apposite denunciation of cram 
and modern education, indulges in certain gratuitous sneers at 
Science. “ Nor did the biologists (Frankenstein alone excepted) 
ever make a man.” Why should they? Man is already, such 
as he is, a. drug in the market ! “ What the age wants is 
fadls.” Yet the crammed child is dosed daily and abundantly, 
not with fadts, but with fidtion, — at best is fed upon words in 
place of things. 
Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching. The 
Elements of Plane Geometry. Part i. (corresponding to 
Euclid, Books I. and II.). Prepared by the Committee ap- 
pointed by the Association. London : W. Swan Sonnen- 
schein and Co. 
The traditional method of teaching geometry in stridt accordance 
with the original work of Euclid is here much modified. 
The first book is here devoted to the straight line, the suc- 
cessive sedtions treating of angles at a point, triangles, parallels, 
and parallelograms. Then follow problems which in Euclid are 
interspersed somewhat promiscuously with the theorems, loci , 
axioms, and postulates. The second book treats of the equality 
of areas. There can be, we imagine, little doubt that the ar- 
rangement here followed is simpler and more rational than that 
of Euclid. 
