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NEW BOOKS. 



High- Class Kitokex Gardening. By "William Earlet (Bradbury). — An 

 extremely neat, compact, nnd distinctive treatise on the higher departments of 

 vegetable culture. Il is not only a practical, but a readable book, although the 

 object of the author everywhere is to convey the utmost possible amount of useful 

 information in the fewest possible words. It would be scarcely fair to quote from a 

 ■work which any one can obtain for a few shillings, and we are content, therefore, to 

 advise all of our readers who need such a book to order it at once. 



A HiSTOKY or British Fehns. By Edward Newman ("Van "Voorst). — A 

 " people's edition "of this well-known book is certain to meet with a proper reception . 

 The beauty of the octavo edition is not altogether lost in this cheap reprint, for there 

 are many excellent figures that indeed are not pictures, but will serve as well for 

 such as require the book for genuine work and not simply as an adornmeut of the 

 table. 



Chapters on Soukdfor Beginners. By C. A. Martine.vu (Groombridge). — 

 It is quite a rare occurrence to meet vvith a book on a profoundly interesting 

 scientific subject labelled, " for beginners," and find it the equal of the book before 

 us. It is a strange article of popular faith that a small amount of knowledge 

 suilSces for one who proposes to teach, and hence very much of the world's teaching 

 has to be unt.fught in tiie case of those who resolve to be possessed of real know- 

 ledge. Thi'se Chapters on Sound are evidently the work of a man thorouglily versed 

 in the subject, and who, moreover, has the rare gift of conveying his knowledge 

 in a most simple and agreeable manner, without any admixture of namby-pamby- 

 ism. It will be found a capital book for the boys as the long nights return, and 

 especially for young people uf both sexes when home for tlie holidays, for it is full 

 of philosophical experiments that may be performed without danger and with pretty 

 and inexpensive instruments. 



The Potatu Disease, axd the Curl Disease in Potatoes. By Eccles 

 Haigh (Philip). — A well-written and well-directed essay, which, by an accident of 

 the season, has acquired considerable importance. As books on this subject abound, 

 we must say that this is better worth attention than nine-tenths of the whole 

 number. 



A General Catalogue tf Sto've, Greenhouse, Hardt, and Bedding- 

 Plants. By W. KoLLisoN AND Sons, Tooting. — We are content, as a rule, to 

 announce tlie catalogues sent us, and say nothing of their respective merits. But 

 an exception to the rule we must make in the present instance. This catalogue of 

 the celebrated Touting nurseries forms a handsome octavo volume, being well bound 

 and interleaved, and every way fit for a permanent place in the library. The printed 

 matter extends to 176 p;)ge«, of which the index fills no less than nine pages. That 

 such a catalogue should be given away freely is not to be supposed, but we are not 

 informed as to the proper mode of obtaining it by persons not known as customers 

 of the firm. In sucli a case, we think a nominal charge should be made, and plainly 

 stated on the title-page. Thousands of plant lovers would be glad to buy such a 

 Ust, and yet might be too considerate to ask for it as a gift. 



The Country Gentleman's Reference Catalogue. — Tiiis is a bookseller's 

 catalogue on anew plan, and especially adapted for these who are readers of books 

 on rural aiTairs. It contains the titles, with brief descriptions and prices, of the 

 best books on such subjects as Botany, Brewing, Gardening, Etiquette, Cookery, 

 Horses, Dogs, Game, etc.. etc. The publishers aie Messrs. Home and Co., 50, 

 Edgeware Koad, London, W. 



May's British and Ihikh Press Guide (F. L. May and Co., IGO, Piccadilly). 

 — A well arranged and copious key to the newspaper press. It may be obtained 

 for one shilling. 



Me. "Worthington S.mith has been awarded the Knightian medal by the Royal 

 Hoiticnltoral Society, in recognition of his labours in the discovery of the resting 

 spores of the potato fungus, Peronospora imfeatans. 



Angnat. 



