ScnooL - BooKs. — Hints and Helps in Continuous Greek Prose. By W. C.
Flamstead Walters, M.A. (Blackie and Son.)—Mr. Walters has followed up a good book on Latin prose with another which will doubtless be found equally useful. Some twenty pages are given to introductory rules, cautions, suggestions, &c., illustrated by examples. A hundred exercises follow, fur- nished with occasional footnotes and references to the intro- duction. Mr. Walters is right in rejecting all " Latinised and Grucised English." It is real English that has to be translated, not a dialect never written or spoken.—French Stumbling.Blocks and English Stepping-Stones. By Francis Tarver, M.A. (John Murray.)—This is the outcome of a very long experience and should be a most useful volume. Mr. Tarver hopes that it will be of service to teachers, whether English or French. To understand the difficulties of the learner is more than half the secret of good teaching. Practical rules for pronunciation (besides the physical difficulty of making certain sounds there are many exceptional usages in French which have to be acquired), idioms, deceptive resemblances, reflexive verbs, and other matters in which mistakes are likely to be made, are treated in separate chapters.—Comus, edited, with Life, Introduction, Notes, &c., by Thomas Page (Moffatt and Paige), is a book which gives the necessary information in a compendious and highly practical shape.—England under the Later Hanoverians, by A. J. Evans, M.A., and C. S. Fearenside, M.A. (W. B. Clive), is a part, including the years 1760-1837, of the "Intermediate Text-Book of English History."—To the same " University Tutorial Series " belong Questions on Logic, by H. Holman, M.A., and M. C. W. Irvine (including questions set in some seventeen Universities in England and the Colonies) ; and Euclid, I.-IV., by Rupert Deakin, M.A., an edition constructed on the principle of " familiarising the student with the working of riders from the very commencement of his studies." Nothing could be more valuable. It may safely be said that Euclid is of next to no use to a pupil who cannot manage a rider.—In the series of "Books from the Bible" (Rivington, Percival, and Co.) we have The Second Book of Kings, edited by the Rev. W. 0. Burrows, M.A., a thoroughly sensible and useful manual, neither evading diffi- culties nor exaggerating them.— Outlines of English Literature. By J. Logie Robertson, M.A. (Blackwood and Sons.)—To sketch English literature from Beowulf down to Lord Macaulay in a hundred and fifty pages without falling into the style of a cata- logue is an achievement of which Mr. Robertson may well be proud. Room has been found for illustrative examples. —44 Comprehensive French Manual. By Otto C. NIL (Blackie and Son.)—" For Students reading for Public Examinations ; Trans- lations from and into French, Notes on Grammar, History, Litera- ture, and Etymology, Hints on Commercial Correspondence, Examination Practice."
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