(i)MESSRS. LANE'S “Algebra” looks as if it would prove a useful school-book. In dealing with the binomial and exponential series the authors state certain properties, with the explicit warning that they are not proving them. This is as it should be; but the chapter on exponentials and logarithms is not so clear as it might be; in particular, Arts. 135–7 would be better if arranged in the reverse order. In the earlier pages we have the old fallacious and meaningless statement: “to multiply a number a by a second number b, we do to a what is done to the unit to obtain b.” It would be much better to give the rule of signs as a rule pure and simple, and then to show by cases of (a – b)(c – d) that it does actually work out in practice. There are hundreds of examples—some, alas, of a highly artificial character; for instance, “If the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is x, and the other sides are y and z units of length, show that (1) A School Algebra. By F. O. Lane J. A. C. Lane. Pp. viii + 333. (London: Edward Arnold, n.d.) Price 3s. 6d. (2) A Treatise on Hydromechanics. Part ii. Hydrodynamics. By A. S. Ramsey. Pp. xiii + 360. (London: G. Bell and Sons., Ltd., 1913.) (3) Les Appareils d'Intégration. By H. de Morin. Pp. 208. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1913.) Price 5 francs. (4) Einführung in die höhere Mathematik für Naturforscher und Aerzte. By Dr. J. Salpeter. Pp. xii + 336. (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1913.) Price 12 marks. (5) Elements of the Precision of Measurements and Graphical Methods. By Prof. H. M. Goodwin. Pp. 104. (London: Hill Publishing Co., Ltd.; New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1913.) (6) Matrices and Determinoids. By Prof. C. E. Cullis. Vol. i. Pp. xii + 430. (Cambridge University Press, 1913.) Price 215. net.