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sddressed. It is not “a botany,” as announcements had led us to expect, 
tut, as its title page informs us, a book of ‘suggestions for seeing and inter- 
preting some of the common forms of vegetation.”’? Those who have seen 
the teachers’ leaflets for nature study, which are being issued under Professor 
: hhiley's direction by Cornell University, have already a fair sample of what 
this book is in its spirit; indeed, some of these leaflets reappear in the book 
rihonly slight adaptation, Perhaps it will not be too much to say that this 
tuk is part of Professor Bailey’s crusade against the formal dry-as-dust 
teaching of botany, in which every live teacher wishes him God-speed. 
The methods which are suggested to teacher and pupil herein are the 
_ Sper ones, beyond question ; there are no others which can be called teach- 
_ ™ The preface at least we would have every teacher read and ponder; it 
“neh in pedagogical suggestions, not so new, perhaps, as forceful. The 
mogram there laid down is executed in the following pages in most admi- 
Ral where, by suggestive questions and hints, the user is led to 
‘git interpretations of many familiar objects in the plant world. Accom- 
Syedhagagg interpretations are paragraphs in smaller type containing 
omg upon the more formal aspects of the subjects studied ; whic 
~ the author into the statement that, as a last resort, “the pupil may 
. the book, for enough of formal statement and definition may have 
: a = aide to enable it to be used as a simple text-book.” But its 
naa is to suggest methods of nature study, “and since the author 
Dest * plants with him he brings good pictures, which are the sin 
With a an d These are indeed admirable ; fresh, accurate, and ae 
talked oe ait of artistic feeling. Professor Holdsworth may we : 
prague and Faxon as a botanical artist of hacer first quality. 
aie as we see in this book, has he failed to interpret 1m lines 
s aah figure 321 is quite inaccurate. ee : 
- bok in which ost captious to say anything in unfavorable critic 
: 2Ry les lessons are devoted to the cryptogams. But will youngste 
. terested in the green scums, the gray lichens, the 
'S puffballs, than in diclinous flowers, to which three lessons are 
te, L. H— Lessons with plants ; suggestions for seeing and interpreting 
th 
ak forms of vegetation; with delineations from 7 Ce yes of 
assistant i gande e Gs 
im. 12 professor of drawing in the Macmillan Co. 1898: 
MO. pp. xxxii+t qor. figs. 440. New York: The 
