BOOKS AND WRITERS. 



A volume devoted to the Fern Allies and illustrating' 

 ever\^ species by Willard N. Clute is expected to appear 

 early in 1905. There is no popular manual of this kind to 

 be had at present. 



Nature studj^ is to have another publication devoted 

 to its interests. It is announced that The Nature Study 

 Review will begin publication in January, 1905, and be 

 issued bi-monthly. Prof. M. A. Bigelow of Columbia 

 University' is to be editor and there is an advisory- board 

 of half a hundred or more of our leading educators. The 

 price will be $1.00 a year. 



"The Garden Diary" is the title of a little book from 

 the press of James Potts & Co. It contains a page for 

 ever3' day in the 3'ear with space left for garden and 

 nature notes. At the head of each page is a stanza from 

 one of the British poets, with observations upon the pro- 

 gress of the seasons in England. There is also a page for 

 each month of the 3-ear, wherein is set down an account of 

 the festivals' and saints days occurring in it. Another 

 page is devoted to the gardening work for the month. 

 Although intended for British readers and dealing with 

 British seasons, fauna and flora, manj- Americans will be 

 glad to have it for comparison. (New York, James Potts 

 & Co., 1904, 75 cents, net.) 



Dr. A.J. Grout recentlj- issued the second part of his 

 "Mosses with Hand-lens and Microscope," which carries 

 the work well into the second hundred pages. In paper 

 and t^'pography, the book is a model while the illustra- 

 tions make it second to none. In the present part there 

 are twenty-five full page octavo plates reproduced mostly 

 from "Br^'ologia Europtea" and Sullivant's "Icones" and 

 nearly fifty smaller illustrations drawn mainly from the 

 same sources. The text covers the ground from the 

 Dicranaceai to the Torulacea?. Dr. Grout is to be especial- 

 ly felicitated upon the excellent taste displayed in the 

 selection and reproduction of the plates. Nothing more 

 helpful to 3'oung students has ever been published in 

 America. (New York, Published by the author, $1.00.) 



