fication simplified, while in the course of the annual stocktaking the opportunity was taken of writing the accession number of every hook in the library on the back of its respective index card—an innovation which should make for speedier reference in the future. Still not enough care is being taken to return books to the library when overdue and the general treatment of books could be considerably improved. The following books have recently been added :ARCHITECTURE :—Three Hundred Years of French Architecture—Blomfield ; A First Book of Architecture—Reed; A Second Book of Architecture—Reed; A Third Book of Architecture—Reed; The Architecture of England—Gibberd ; The Story of Architecture—Waterhouse ; A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method—Sir J. Banister Fletcher. SOCIOLOGY :—How York Governs Itself—Morrell and Watson ; Whitehall at York—
Morrell and Watson.
HISTORY :—History of the City of York—Knight ; England (187o-I94)—Ensor ; The French Revolution—Thompson ; History of the United States to 1941-
Somervell.
MATHEMATICS :—Pure Mathematics—Hardy ; Teaching the Essentials of Arithmetic —Ballard ; Advanced Trigonometry—Durell and Robson ; Advanced Algebra (vol. II)—Durell and Robson ; The Teaching of Elementary Mathematics— Godfrey and Siddons ; The Teaching of Mechanics in Schools—A Report ; The Teaching of Arithmetic in Schools—A Report ; The Teaching of Algebra in Schools—A Report ; The Teaching of Geometry in Schools—A Report ; The Teaching of Algebra and Trigonometry—Nunn ; An Introduction to Mathematics—Whitehead ; A Short History of Mathematics—Ball ; Chamber's Seven-Figure Mathematical Tables—ed. Pryde ; The Great Mathematicians— Turnbull ; Map Projections by Practical Construction—Hinckley ; An Introduction to the Theory of Statistics—Yule and Kendall. SCIENCE :—Readable Relativity—Durell ; Physics for Medical Students—Rudd; General Astronomy—Spencer Jones . REFERENCE :—The Oxford Companion to English Literature. PRESENTED BY MRS. A. N. BAIRD :—Abraham Lincoln—Lord Charnwood; Recollections (z vols.)—Viscount Morley; Memories (vol. II)—Lord Redesdale ; Contemporary Personalities—Earl of Birkenhead ; Memories and Studies— James ; Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, his life and times—Mackenzie ; Life of the Emperor Frederick—Whitman ; Caesar, a sketch—Froude. PRESENTED BY H.M. INSPECTORS :—English Social History—G. M. Trevelyan.
MONSOON STORM. (The following article has been sent to us from South F, rt Asia by Lieut. J. A. Cato (School House 5936-40). It was ;mitten, Cato tells us in a covering letter, to pass the time in hospital, and to give people at home "my own impressions of a monsoon storm in this forsaken part. of the world where we fight the Jap, and everything else under the sun." For a short time I have been away from my unit (somewhere on the Indo-Burmese border) undergoing treatment for malaria in a hospital in a back area. The weather has been unbearably hot and sticky. A storm is inevitable—and here she comes! I went outside and watched for a time. It is evening, and behind me the sun is low on the horizon, the sky around it a delicate shade of blue and pink. The crowd, however, is more interested in the opposite direction. In an ever-widening arc, the leading edges still tinged with the sun's rays, a mass of cloud moves towards us at a high level. The immediate scenery has taken on an unnatural clarity; green trees and white tents stand out starkly against a background of dull, steely blue—the back-cloth of a gigantic stage, across which lightning flickers, flashes, and darts, throwing into relief the jet-black clouds seemingly suspended in the blue vacuum between the storm-cloud and the gaunt hills on the horizon. 14
