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There are a number of illustrations representing methods of punish- 

 ment and torture, prison interiors and exteriors, and famous criminals. 

 The book is a notable one ; it is cleverly and interestingly written, 

 and will supply a place in the library not filled by any other work 

 with which we are acquainted. 



The Forest Flora of South Australia. By J. E. Brown, F.L.S., 

 Conservator of Forests for the Government of South Australia. 

 Printed by E. Spiller, Government printer, Adelaide. Part III. 



The part which has just reached us is a substantial instalment of Mr. 

 Brown's magnificent work. It contains coloured plates and letter- 

 press descriptions of the following: — Acacia injcnantha, the broad- 

 leaved Wattle ; Eucalyptus corijnocalyx, the Sugar Gum ; Cosuarina 

 distyla, the Scrub She-oak (male plant) ; Gasuarina distyla (female 

 plant) ; and Eucalyptus caypitellata, the Head-flowered Stringybark. 

 In these five magnificent plates, which measure, as does the whole 

 work, 21 inches by 17 inches, we have not only nature prints of the 

 leaves, stems, and flowers, but of the fruit and wood, and of botanical 

 parts. We trust that the author is repaid for the great outlay which 

 the production of this book must necessitate. When finished it will, 

 we think, make the grandest ' tree book ' in existence. We heartily 

 wish it all success. The descriptions which accompany the plates 

 are all that can be desired, and the type is bold and excellent. 



The Haunted Homes and Family Traditions of Great Britain. By 

 John H. Ingram. London : W. H. Allen and Co., 13, Waterloo 

 Place. 1884. 



Here is another collection which must have cost the author an 

 immense amount of careful and laborious work. It is intended as * a 

 guide to the geography of Ghostland,' a handbook to the haunted 

 houses of Great Britain. ' Many historic tales of apparitions and 

 supernaturally disturbed dwellings,' says the author, ' are imbedded 

 in British literature, are frequently alluded to in journalistic and 

 other publications, and are known to everybody by name, but by 

 name only. Most people have heard of " The Demon of Tadworth," 

 the Lord Lyttleton ghost story, and other celebrated narratives of 

 the uncanny kind, but it is rare to find any one able to furnish 

 particulars of them.' And to enable them to do this is the raison 

 (tetre of the work before us. The book takes a considerable range, 

 and the extent of its references to ghostland may be recognised by 

 readers wide apart by the list of places that have been more or less 

 ' haunted.' These include AUanbank, Bair Hall, Barby, Beaminster 

 School, Bisham Abbey, Botathen, Bowood, Bristol — the Vicarage — 



