BOOK REVIEWS 389 



The Practical Book of Outdoor Rose Growing. George C. 



Thomas, Jr. p. 156 with a hundred colored plates. J. B. 



Lippincott Co. $4.00. 

 This is a book that calls for superlatives, one that a garden lover 

 will affectionately possess. It tells how to propagate, plant, grow 

 and care for roses. It discusses the best varieties and summarizes 

 the information in a very useful table. It tells how to locate, lay 

 out and prepare the soil for the rose garden. And then those 

 glorious plates ! How the rose lover will gloat over them during the 

 winter months as he plans his garden and decides which of the 

 glowing beauties he will try to raise. 



Miss Alice G. McCloskey, the brilliant editor of the Cornell 

 Rural School Leaflets, died suddenly at her home in Ithaca on 

 October 15th. She had been in ill health for nearly a year, 

 but had recovered so that she conducted her classes during the 

 Cornell Summer School with even more than her ordinary power 

 and inspiration. So that the suddenness of her passing on will 

 prove a shock to many outside of the Cornell community. 



Miss McCloskey came to Cornell in 1901 as the assistant of 

 Mr. John W. Spencer, her special work being the editing of the 

 Junior Naturalist's Leaflets. She continued to edit this until 

 1907, when all of the pedagogical publications of the New York 

 State College of Agriculture were merged into the Cornell Rural 

 School Leaflets, and she was made its editor. She co-operated 

 in her work closely with the New York State Department of 

 Education and thus made the Rural School Leaflets most efficient 

 in aiding teachers in their prescribed work, and made it by far 

 the most helpful and remarkable publication in this field in the 

 United States or in the world for that matter. 



Miss McCloskey was never content with giving merely prescribed 

 help in Elementary Agriculture; she always added something of 

 the best of literature and of art to the leaflet for she believed 

 that an appreciation of good literature and good pictures should be 

 a part of every child's education. 



Miss McCloskey was a woman of exquisite refinement and 

 charming personality. As a hostess she was delightful and her 

 home was often thrown open to her pupils; the evenings spent 

 there will be long remembered by those who were fortunate 

 enough to experience them, — and^her_loss — will be mourned far 

 and wide. 



