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tainly deserved some recompense and even magazines cost 

 money to issue. Few dealers are disposed to push a given book 

 for mere love of the writer, but there are a lot of embryo scien- 

 tists coming along that take this very peculiar view of the mat- 

 ter. Until we are converted, however, we are going to let our 

 author advertise his own books. 



In 1897, the late Prof. E. S. Goff, of the University of 

 Wisconsin, issued a little book on "The Principles of Plant 

 Culture" of which seven editions have appeared. Now comes 

 the eighth, revised by Professors J. G. Aloore and L. R. Jones of 

 the same university. The title may sound as if the book were 

 designed for the teaching of agriculture, but it has a wider 

 field. It is, indeed, a clear account of the fundamentals upon 

 which all plant growing rests. The agriculturist seldom goes 

 beyond knowing" how ; the present book will tell him why. 

 Though the related information is arranged in definite chap- 

 ters, each paragraph is usually a complete account of the phase 

 of the subject treated, so that the book may be read backward 

 or forward or may be begun in the middle. The practical 

 botanist can scarcely open the book anywhere without finding 

 something of interest, and he can feel sure that it is authorita- 

 tive and up-to-date. All individuals with enough interest in 

 plant life to become good botanists ought to have the book. If 

 he cannot find what he wants in it, we do not know who can 

 tell him. The Macmillan Company, New York, are the pub- 

 lishers. The price is $2.2.'.. 



The success of Stevens' "Plant Anatomy" has necessi- 

 tated a third edition, and this, revised and enlarged, has just ap- 

 peared from the press of P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadel- 

 phia. The general excellence of the work is well known, but 

 it may not be amiss to note again that it is arranged on a con- 

 structive plan beginning with cells and tracing their modifica- 

 tions through the various tissues of the plant. The activities 

 of the cells, as expressed in such functions as absorption, trans- 



