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Treatment of Parallels by angles made with transversals.

Nie. I have now the honour to lay before you 'The Elements of Geometry, simplified and explained,' by W. D., A.B., published in 1860.

Min. Please to hand me the book for a moment. I wish to read you a few passages from the Preface. It is always satisfactory—is it not?—to know that a writer, who attempts to 'simplify' Euclid, begins his task in a becoming spirit of humility, and with some reverence for a name that the world has accepted as an authority for two thousand years.

Nie. Truly.