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forms, while the climatic conditions of each province are kept in constant 

 view and frequent allusions are made to the principal features of the 

 vegetation. 



We have received from The American Book Company a new elemen- 

 tary text, A Practical Course in Botany, by E. F. Andrews. The author 

 has aimed to make the high school course in botany more palatable by 

 emphasising the bearings of the subject on agriculture, economics and 

 sanitation. The book is not so much an omnium gatherum from all 

 departments of botany as some of the recent texts have been, but is 

 rather a sound frame-work of morphology with constant allusion to the 

 functions of plant organs. The Practical Questions at the close of each 

 chapter are very well designed to connect the random observations of 

 students with the orderly facts of the text, and go to prove that it is 

 very easy to make an elementary course in botany interesting, whatever 

 other characteristics it may happen to have. 



