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Book reviewed in this article:Botany of Crop Plants, by W. W. Robbins, Professor of Botany, College of Agriculture, University of California, x+639 pp.Plane Geometry, by Elizabeth Buchanan Cowley, Ph.D, teacher of Mathematics, Allegheny Senior High School, Pittsburgh, Pa. Formerly Professor of Mathematics Vassar College. Pp.Modern Junior Mathematics, by Walter W. Hart, Associate Professor of Mathematics, School of Education and Teacher of Mathematics Wisconsin High School, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. Book One, iii+246 pages, price 84 cents.National Society for the Study of Education, Thirty‐first Year‐book, Part I. A Program, for Teaching Science prepared by the Society's Committee, S Ralph Powers, Chairman. Pages xii+370.General Science Laboratory, Sheets, by Wm. Dean Pulvermacher, Formerly in Charge of Sciences, Junior High Schools, Acting Principal, New York Parental School, New York City and Charles H. Vosburgh, Principal, Jamaica High School, New York.The Skycraft Book, by Laura B. Harney, Teacher of Science, Washington Junior High School, Mount Vernon, New York, and Licensed Airplane Pilot. Cloth.Medical Entomology, by William A. Riley, University of Minnesota, and Oskur A. Johannsen, Cornell University. First Edition.Quantitative Chemical Analysis, An Introductory Course by Henry P. Talbot, late Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Seventh Edition revised and rewritten by L. F. Hamilton, Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and S. G. Simpson, Instructor in Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cloth.First Year Algebra, by David A. Rothrock, Professor of Mathematics, Indiana University, and Martha. Anne Whitacre, Head of the Mathematics Department in the Junior and Senior High Schools, Richmond, Indiana. Pages xi+320.Brief College Algebra, by William, L. Hart, Professor of Mathematics in the University of Minnesota. Cloth.Freshman Mathematics, by Hermon L. Slobin and Walter E. Wilbur, the University of New Hampshire. Cloth.The Calculus, by Hans H. Dalaker, Ph.D., Professor of Mathematics and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, and Henry E. Hartig, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota. Cloth.The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Fifth Year Book. The Teaching of Geometry. Cloth. Pages x+206. 15×25 cm. 1930. Sixth Year Book. Mathematics in Modern Life. Cloth Pages ix+195. 15×23 cm. 1931. Seventh Year Book. The Teaching of Algebra. Cloth.Living Geography Series by Ellsworth Huntington, C. Beverly Benson and Frank M. McMurry. Book I, How Countries Differ, 346 pp., 24 colored map plates. $1.20. Book II, Why Countries Differ.Earth Features and Their Meaning. Revised Edition. By William H. Hobbs, University of Michigan.Principles of Chemistry, by Joel Hildebrand, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry in the University of California. Third Edition.Tentative Syllabus in Biology for County High Schools.