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Diseases of Cultivated Plants and Tree;. 

 By George Massee. New York City: 

 The Macmillan Company. 

 Although this is an English book, it will 

 be found convenient and useful for our 

 American readers. As there is a widespread 

 and intelligent interest in diseases of culti- 

 vated plants and a desire to know about 

 their treatment, this book cannot fail tn 

 be of general interest to our readers. 



The Insect Notebook. By James G. Xeed- 

 ham. Ithaca, New York : The Corn- 

 stock Publishing Company. 

 It is indeed encouraging to any one eager 

 to see an increase in the interest in nature to 

 observe that The Comstock Publishing Com- 

 pany has been required to issue this, the 

 seventh in The Nature Notebook Series. It 

 is conveniently arranged and will be of inter- 

 est to classes in entomology as well as to 

 amateurs. The price is only thirty cents. 



The Principles of Plant Culture. A Text 

 for Beginners in Agriculture and Horti- 

 culture. By the late E. S. Goff. Revised 

 by J. G. Moore and L. R. Jones of the 

 University of Wisconsin. New York City: 

 The Macmillan Company. 

 This book was first published in 1897 and 

 since then has gradually grown in size and 

 improved in character. While it was origin- 

 ally the outcome of lectures to students in 

 a short course in agriculture, it is so de- 

 signed as to benefit the general reader who 

 desires to learn the principles of plant cul- 

 ture. It is a book of especial interest to 

 our students of plant life. 



The Apple. By Albert E. Wilkinson, De- 

 partment of Horticulture, Cornell Uni- 

 versitj'. Boston. Ginn and Companj^, 

 Publishers. 8vo. cloth, 492 pages, pro 

 fusely illustrated, $2.00 

 The aim of this book is to bring together 

 and boil down the great mass of literature 

 dealing with the various aspects of the 

 apple business — growing, harvesting, and 

 marketing. In its breadth and scope this 

 volume differs greatly from others in the 

 same field, for whereas they are nearly all 

 useful to only a limited locality, this book 

 is equally well adapted to the East, Mid- 

 West, West, and South. Its author has 

 studied the entire subject in every phase 

 from one end of the country to the other, 

 and has written a treatise which should 

 prove indispensable to the farmer, the or- 

 chardist, the home gardener and the stu- 

 dents in colleges and secondary schools. 

 The text contains many helpful illustrations, 

 including four full-page color plates. 



The Hills of Hingham. By Dallas Lore 

 Sharp. Boston, Massachusetts : Hough- 

 ton MifHin Company. 



The country life that Mr. Sharp cele- 

 brates so amusingly in this volume, is that 

 of the business man who seeks a means of 

 escape from the high pressure life of the 

 city, and finds it in a small farm not far 

 away. 



"The Hills of Hingham" is one of those 

 books you feel distinctly the better for By 

 reading it, city dwellers can enjoy rural 

 life without living it, while those who make 

 their homes on the farm can live over again 

 the pleasures, and laugh with the author at 

 the vexations, of life in the country. 



Our Early Wild Flowers. By Harriet _L,. 



Keeler. New York City: Charles Scrib- 



ner's Sons. 

 When one goes afield to seek wild flowers 

 in March, April or May, there is no neces- 

 sity to give much attention to goldenrod 

 and fringed gentian, so here is a really 

 good idea embodied in a book limited to 

 the things of the season. It is well arran- 

 ged and beautifully illustrated. To look at 

 the volume, as the reviewer is doing, in the 

 last of February when snow is on the 

 ground and cold winds are blowing, it is 

 cheering to be reminded that within a short 

 time, in a still shorter time for our readers 

 after they read this notice, we shall again 

 see the spring beauties, marsh marigolds, 

 anemones, saxifrage and others. Is not 

 life worth living? 



AIen of the Old Stone Age: Their Envir- 

 onment, Life and Art. By Henry Fair- 

 field Osborn. 269 Illustrations and Maps. 

 Price, $5.00 net. New York City : Charles 

 Scribner's Sons. 

 "Men of the Old Stone Age" is a first 

 full and authoratative presentation of what 

 has been actually discovered up to the 

 present time in regard to human prehistory. 

 All the known prehuman and human stages 

 of development for the last five hundred 

 thousand years are described as fully and 

 fairly as the material allows. From the 

 time enduring remains of warlike and in- 

 dustrial life appear — one hundred and 

 twenty-five thousand years ago — the author 

 traces every step in man's economic and 

 social evolution; and, finally, all the stages 

 of artistic endeavor. 



The volume is, as Professor Osborn says 

 in his Preface, "the outcome of an ever mem- 

 orable tour through the country of the 

 Old Stone Age''- — the Palaeolithic caverns 

 of Italy, France, and Spain. On this tour, 

 which was made in 1912, the author was 



