341 
Rebiew. 
473 illustrations. L i " 
E esp) ns ondon: Cassell, Petter and Galpin, [1872.] 
erroneous information was likely to be spread by means of the elegantly 
material. 
Phe Rm English edition (1868) one can scarcely speak too severely. 
doni: ugs seldom allowed to escape from the press. It possessed 
mid y rench woodcuts, but the text presented the very worst 
hn of the bad **popular science " style. Misprints of the most 
pag be ** in so 
| me 
I = — ;"but what is to be said of such translatious as 
sancti en from two consecutive pages? In the original we have, in a 
g "ea jj of the vegetation near Drontheim (p. 462), " des bouquets 
nes, de Bouleaux, et de Sapins, entremélés de Frénes, d'Érables, de 
d ce 
s Lee saracina,” whilst ^ lantes grasses " becomes in Englis 
rege stl p ants Thereis a boldness about these very free translations 
able as to place their author quite beyond the reach of ordinary 
as an extraordinary coincidence 
ul he two subjects necessary for the 
Re ave translated a French work on botany. 
ay probably have been suspected that all was not right before the 
be envied in hi i d. The editor was certainly not to 
in his task, As it was evidently impossible to bring back into 
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