218 . BOOKS AND CURRENT LITERATURE 



great college of agriculture and closely associated with the men who 

 have made it great, or for other reasons; but in any case they have pro- 

 duced a book which, while it contains many of the ''knick-knacks of 

 science," things which are curious and therefore interesting, contain 

 also the fundamentals and the elements of that science which is one of 

 the foundations of civilization. If the authors were conscious of this, 

 and intended it, the reader would have been glad to have them make a 

 summary statement to this effect at the end of the book, thereby im- 

 pressing upon the mind of the student the lesson of the whole, instead 

 of merely stopping with the last item in the last lesson. — George J. 

 Peirce. 



