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It tells the life-history of a bean in terms of human life, and is entrancing- 

 from beginning to end. The plan is to let each part of the plant tell the 

 child its relationship to sun, air, earth, and water. It leads to the com- 

 plete knowledge of 07ic thing, which in our opinion is sound nature 

 teaching. 



Glimpses of Nature for Little Folks. By C. Griel. Boston and 

 London : D. C. Heath & Co. Price is. 6d. 

 Another school-book on sound lines. The coloured pictures are very 

 fine, and the line illustration is abundant. Scientific facts are presented 

 in pleasant talk, and embrace the lives of bird, insect, plant, flower, fish, 

 and fungus. This little book gives to the child a general education, to 

 be in possession of which will go a long way towards an intelligent out- 

 look on nature in manhood. We commend it to teachers and parents. 



Nature Study and the Child. By C. B. Scott, M.A. Boston 

 and London ; D. C. Heath & Co. Price 6s. 



Teachers are very apt to take offence when preached at, and justly so, 

 otherwise every faddist would mark their course and sign their orders. 

 Many books on the above subject have preached at the teacher, but Mr 

 Scott's work is free from all professional cant, and consists of com- 

 munings with fellow-teachers on methods, materials, and aims of Nature 

 Study, and its intrinsic value as a factor in the complete education of a 

 man. The experience and evident ability of the author make his work 

 respected. 



The book consists of over 600 pages, and is divided into two parts, 

 — the first devoted to aims and methods, the second to detailed outlines. 

 After discussing a type of the vegetable and animal kingdom in the 

 manner the author approves, the way is open to the discussion of what 

 Nature Study is. Why and How should it be taught ? What is its aim ? 

 The chapters on Principles determining Method are, in a book uni- 

 formly good, of outstanding merit. As an illustration of co-ordination of 

 work we know nothing to equal the schemes for eight years' continuous 

 school study. An earnest teacher with such a text-book in his hand 

 need no longer worship the Saturday class fad, but begin to work out 

 his own salvation, confident that the author has trodden the path before 

 him as an experimenter, a practical teacher, and a man of scientific 

 method and knowledge. 



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During the last few years quite a number of books have been written 

 by field naturalists, some of them dealing with special branches of 

 biology to which the authors have devoted particular attention, others 

 to the local conditions of flora or fauna. Of this latter class is the 

 excellent work on the Flora of Liverpool and District recently issued 

 by the Liverpool Field Naturalists' Society, or at least by some of its 



