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troubled in its home. Then the flower in its haunt is a part of the 

 landscape, a tint in nature's palette not to be heedlessly removed." It 

 presupposes a knowledge of the mere names of the plants, and sets 

 them forth on the unrolling calendar from spring to winter in a way 

 that makes them something more than individuals of this or that spe- 

 <3ies— it has imparted to them the charm and fragrance that can only 

 come fi-om an intuitive and delicate appreciation of " nature unadorned." 

 And woven through it all is the pathetic life story of old Time o'Year, 

 the hermit, who knew when blossomed the earliest arbutus, the mocca- 

 sin flower, and the dainty harebell, and whose wealth of woodland lore 

 is told in his own quaint language. 



The illustrations in this book are absolutely unique. They are 

 photographs direct from nature, that have been intensified by the pro- 

 cess that makes the modern high grade magazine illustrations so effect- 

 ive. Each plate is surrounded by a dark mat which sets off the charm- 

 ing bits of nature in a manner we have never seen equaled. We pre- 

 dict for this book a wide sale and a delighted audience. — F. H. K. 



CouES DE BoTANiQUE. Par MM. Gaston Bonnier <fe Leclere du Sablon. 

 Tome I, fascicule 1, 8vo, pp. 1-384. Paris, 1901. Paul Dupont, 

 Editeur. 



This work, which, as the title indicates, is to be a comi)lete text- 

 book of botany, has been prepared for the use of universities, schools 

 of medicine and pharmacy, and agricultural schools, and if carried out 

 along the lines laid down in this first fascicle, can not fail to be of per- 

 manent value. The first pages are appropriately devoted to certain 

 preliminary questions, such as the characters of living things, defini- 

 tions of plant organs and of the various branches of botanical study. 

 The next portion deals with the general structure of plants, while the 

 final pages of this fascicle are devoted to the morphology of the angio- 

 sperms. Each topic is treated with as much fulness as could be ex- 

 pected, being set off by a line or more printed in full-faced type. The 

 illustrations are copious, there being 553 in this fascicle, and we are 

 told in the prospectus that the whole work will contain fully 3000 cuts. 

 A large proportion are new, but many have been taken from approved 

 sources. 



We regret to note certain evidences of ultra-conservatism or cling- 

 ing to old methods, such as the beginning with the study of the higher 

 plants, the retention of the Apetalae as a sub-class of the dicotj'ledons, 

 etc. It is, of course, well to keep certain unsettled questions out of a 

 text-book designed for beginners, but in an advanced work it would 

 seem better to make a thoroughly modern presentation. When looked 

 upon in this way, the whole plan of the work seems antiquated. 



