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EDUCATIONAL BOOKS.

The author's chief design in this treatise is to give an answer to the question, “Has the Earth acquired its present form from being originally in a fluid state?” This Edition is a complete revision of the former ones.

Puckle. — AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON CONIC SEC­TIONS

AND ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY. With Numerous Examples and Hints for their Solution; especially designed for the Use of Beginners. By G. H. Puckle, M.A. New Edition,

revised and enlarged. Crown 8vo. cloth. 7s. 6d.

This work is recommended by the Syndicate of the Cambridge Local Examinations. The Athenæum says the author “displays an intimate acquaintance with the difficulties likely to be felt, together with a singular aptitude in removing them.”

Rawlinson. — ELEMENTARY STATICS, by the Rev. George

Rawlinson, M.A. Edited by the Rev. Edward Sturges, M.A., of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and late Professor of the Applied

Sciences, Elphinstone College, Bombay. Crown 8vo. cloth. 4s. 6d.

Published under the authority of Her Majesties Secretary of State for India, for use in the Government Schools and Colleges in India.

Reynolds. — MODERN METHODS IN ELEMENTARY

GEOMETRY. By E. M. Reynolds, M.A., Mathematical

Master in Clifton College. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d.

This little book has been constructed on one plan throughout, that of always giving in the simplest possible form the direct proof from the nature of the case. The axioms necessary to this simplicity have been assumed without hesitation, and no scruple has been felt as to the increase of their number, or the acceptance of as many elementary notions as common experience places past all doubt. The book differs most from estab­lished teaching in its constructions, and in its early application of Arith­metic to Geometry.

Routh. — AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON THE DYNA­MICS OF THE SYSTEM OF RIGID BODIES. With Numerous Examples. By Edward John Routh, M.A., late