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has a style of his own, bright, easy, and readable ; we almost forgive 

 him his unfamiliar spelling. It would be an interesting experiment 

 to compare the results of teaching on the plan of these two books 

 respectively. The text-book might perhaps score most in examinations 

 with a restricted syllabus, though we are not certain even of this, but 

 for mental development and the fostering of a love for plant-know- 

 ledge Prof. Bailey's ' Lessons ' would be facile princcps. The best 

 description of the book is its title. Its use to the teacher is to suggest 

 what material to put before his students, and what lesson to let them 

 imbibe from it ; only, as the author insists, one lesson at a time. If 

 the teacher is worth his name, he will find no difficulty in extending 

 the scope of the book on the same lines, and he will also find that he 

 is learning as much as his pupils. When the student has not the ad- 

 vantage of a teacher. Prof. Bailey puts him well in the way of helping 

 himself. But neither teacher nor student must rest satisfied with the 

 pictures with which the book is so lavishly supplied. They will help 

 wonderfully to elucidate the liA'ing specimens ;' but if they are used 

 instead, the object of the book will be frustrated. It is worth the 

 price of the volume to get almost for every page a new illustration. 

 Dear old Sachs & Co. were very useful, but the blocks have got much 

 worn of late. But it is impossiljle to review this book. One keeps 

 looking at the pictures and reading bits, and the editor wants copy 

 to-morrow. Suftice it to say that it is divided into seven parts: 

 studies of twigs and buds ; of leaves and foliage ; of flowers ; of the 

 fructification ; of the propagation of plants ; of the behaviors {sic) and 

 habits of plants ; and of the kinds of plants ; with an appendix con- 

 taining many useful suggestions on the collecting and preserving of 

 plants, on books, on how to build a school-house and lay out the garden, 

 and a glossary. Long live Professor Bailey ! 



The American Bureau of Ethnology 



Four volumes of the " Annual Eeports of the Bureau of Ethnology " 

 are to hand, being the fourteenth (two volumes), fifteenth, and sixteenth 

 Eeports, J 892 to 1<S95. The usual high standard of this important 

 ethnological publication has been amply maintained, both in the 

 subject material and in the style of production. As hitherto, the 

 illustrations are very numerous and excellent. 



The fourteenth Keport (1892-3), Part I., forms a bulky volume con- 

 taining two important and lengtliy papers. The first is a " Monograph 

 on the Menomini Indians," by W. J. Hoffman, M.D., a detailed 

 descriptive account of a tribe of Indians of Algonquian stock, nearly 

 related to the Ojibwa, and located on a reservation in the N".E. part of 

 Wisconsin, This tribe has been referred to in print under upwards 

 of eighty synonyms, which are quoted in a list. The paper deals in 

 detail with the form of government, the various societies associated 

 with special cults, mythology and folk-lore, everyday life and manu- 

 factures, describing the various appliances used in the various occu- 

 pations. There is no lack of illustrations, and a vocabulary is 

 appended. The arrangement of the paper is systematic, and is thus 

 well suited to quick reference, the list of contents and headings to 

 sections rendering easy the search for special points. These mono- 



