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.AUBOKlCL'pyrrUE 



Aiu<>n<^ l^ooks. 



For iminy years Gray's Botany has 

 beeu a standard, and in almost every 

 particular it is still and will continue to 

 be an authority in the United States, but 

 in a great number of cases a work pre- 

 pared so long ago as Dr. Gray's must 

 needs be brougbt up to tlic present time 

 by such additions as experiences and re- 

 cent discoveries may demand. 



Harvard University owns the copy- 

 right of Gray's Botany, and it is by di- 

 rection of Harvard that these Outlines 

 of Botany have been prepared by Dr. 

 Leavitt. Price, $1.80. Americaji Book 

 Company, Cincinnati, Chicago, New 

 York, 



A. Flanagan Company have a series 

 of books for schools and young people 

 which wc find to be extremely interest- 

 ing and instructive. 



•■.\ Little Journey to Germany" gives 

 a short account of everything of special 

 interest which one sees in travel in<r 

 through the German Empire. 



"A Little Journey to Mexico," by Ma- 

 rian M. George, we find to be very cor- 

 rect in descriptions and in illustrations, 

 which are ])rofuse. 



"Life on the Farm** is a scientific ex- 

 planation of many ])rocesses in farm op- 

 erations, but written in plain and inter- 

 esting language which the young can 

 understand. 



The Bobbs-Mcrrill Companv, Indian- 

 apolis, have just published "The Song of 

 the Cardinal." trovers of nature, espe- 

 cially those who recognize the beauty, 

 cheerfulness and usefulness of birds, w'iil 

 appreciate this poetic story by Gene 

 Stratton Porter. It is finely illustrated, 

 and profusely so. We woidd specially 

 commend this l»ook to those who are so 

 devoted to l)irds as to keep a redbird in 

 confinement in a cage of two cubic feer 

 capacity. This is a handsome work for 

 the parlor or 1il)rarv. 



Sirangers in Mexico never fail to en- 

 joy a visit to Chapultepec. The grounds 

 are kept in the highest state of land- 

 scape art. The trees and plants are all 

 grand. The old cypress trees, especially, 

 attract .attention by their immense size 

 antl rare beauty, the one illustrated be- 

 ing -J 00 years old. It stands at the base 

 of the clilf, a majestic sentinel guarding 

 the citadel. The entire slope of the hill 

 is a mass of verdure, trees, vines and 

 plants characteristic of the tropics, 

 (■pon the battlements about the citadel 

 are immense vines of bougain villea, em- 

 blems of peace, hiding all symbols of 

 war. 



The National Palace, which was occu- 

 })ied by Maximillian and Carlotta, is full 

 of richest decorations and most elegant 

 furnishings. 



The National Military School occii- 

 pies one portion of the citadel. I spent 

 a day here, and was shown unusual cour- 

 tesies by officials and students. 



Nowhere in the world can there be 

 found a finer body, of young men than 

 are in this school — courteous, gentle- 

 manly, studious, intelligent. Such lead- 

 ers and defenders as will come out of 

 this class of young men insure the safety 

 of ^Mexico in the vears to come. 



Upon a mountain betw^een Mexico City 

 and Cuernavaca, at an elevation of 10,- 

 700 feet, I saw large fields of maize, or 

 Indian corn. This crop, in a more north- 

 ern latitude, is confined to tracts of less 

 than 0,000 feet elevation. True, in some 

 special cases in Colorado earlv sugar corn 

 is grown at 0.000 feet elevation, but not 

 as a crop. 



Neither agriculture nor mining have 

 been developed as in the United States. 

 The richness of soil, abundance of moist- 

 ure and an all-the-year-round season 

 would suggest possibilities for Mexican 

 farm crops not heretofore dreamed of. 



