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characteristic volume, entitled ‘* Die Pflanze und ihr Leben; Populdre 
ortrage, was admirably translated? in England by Mr. Henfrey, : 
published by Bailliere in 1848, under the English title of “* The Plant; — 
i 3 in a series of Popular Lectures.” The English publisher — 
has beautifully reproduced the plates and the vignettes; and Mr. Hen- — 
frey’s known ability is a guarantee that the text is faithfully rendered. — 
In causing the book to be reprinted in this country, where it had already 
become pretty well known, Mr. Wood has taken what we must call the 
unwarrantable liberty of altering the title, as above. . 
s the object of the change is more than we can imagine. 
Perhaps the factitious title was thought to be a more taking one than — 
the real. So, indeed, it lately proved. in the case of a friend of ours, 
who was taken in by it. Having purchased the new book by its title, 
he found, to his chagrin, that it was only a reprint (with the pretty vig- 
ere engraved frontispiece left out) of ‘* The Plant,’’ translate 
by Hen i i 
hap makemmesregret that we had neglected to indicate this danger when 
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the American reprint made its appe e in such a guise. We ft 
absolve Professor Wood from any equivocal intention in the matter; but. 
taking liberties with Bs itle-pages is neither proper nor sale. 
he omission of the vignettes at the head of each lecture and of the en 
graved frontispiece might have been excused if the fact had been men- 
tione The graph h relates to them in the author’s introduc: — 
which elates to the 
tion is duly given, as is a reference or two in the body of the work: 
but the pictures themselves have silently venth 1; and gasps. of Abe 
-not detect the omission. So also Mr. Henfrey’s name has alm 
ished from the title page of his own literary production. We likewise 
miss Henfrey’s sensible advertisement, stating that he had confined him- — 
se!f to the simple rendering of Schleiden’s language into English, 
ference beyond the remark that: ‘In bringing this volume before the — 
casionally Sentences too long and involved, and sometimes too mu 
encumbered with epithets to suit the genius of our language. In 
