592 ‘ Book Notices. 
of Edwards the Naturalist,’ and we can th it no higher praise. 
‘It is a worthy monument.to a worthy man, one who was, per- 
haps, wiser than he knew. It will prove spaetiealants useful to 
working field-naturalists, whether the distribution of Butterflies, 
Birds, or Wild Flowers happens to be their particular penchant; 
turning over its pages all such will refresh their memories as at — 
a conversazione ; clarify their ideas on many subjects—for, born 
instructor and a little bit of a poet as well, as More was, he — 
loved to recapitulate, or begin a matter with a sketch of what 
was already known; and, not least of joys, readers will, sure as — : 
fate, fight some of their battles over again, even where its pages 
are epistolary and controversial, in the company of honoured 
savants, Darwin, Hewett Watson, Babington, dead and gone, 
but who, like More, he in his way no less than they, have left 
behind them a shining wake on the wide waters of Time past. 
ARNOLD LEES. 
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BOOK NOTICES. 
r we received for notice a copy of the ‘Moss Exchange Club 
Caialoeae' i of | British eee | ‘Conupited by | Rev. bes Waddell, — 
-D. | — | Price 6d. Post Free, 7d. | — | London: Sofas: sley & Son, 
28, Essex Street, Strand | May also be obtained from the . Secretary 
to the Moss Exchange Club, | the Rev. C dell, “Saintfield c w 
pre ig Mela bee The Hidaber oe British plants of this group now 
amo species, arranged in 59 genera, w nich 3 is possibly a greater 
patter fie “that of the British students of the group! 
a 
A copy has been sent to us of Nos. 1 and 2 of The | Home and Aids t0 
a Magazine and Note-book of | kireued Knowledge a me Aids to 
Memory |[. . Quotation... Compeceth The Educa pes bern m, Hasle- 
aes Hat 0 
Feb. 15th, 1898. Price 1/-. 8 ; pages, with 4 plates pied a 1 tabular view of 
amended. chronology. Inte head with ruled writing paper. All the articles 
‘ i er 
unsi contains, am most varied matter, ‘The Educational 
Mus ’ There is nothing th ati f a small p o 
eum which h ot been earlier and much better said by } rightwen, 
who probably knows more about i the writer of the article. A le of 
taken up with a conversation ‘On Galls,’ from which none, except _ 
the really ignorant, will gain anything. First numbers are, as a rule, po Ae 
perenne of the future of any magazine. Remembering. that my own 
-boy ver n 
e har aver ile 
0 only saw sdtbiiaan 3 in what was, to me, cworksrt realy should not like — 
ts face my youth a again i this magazine is a sample of the direction 
ae ch the present day young idea is supposed to shoot. And sia a 
r 
n the ‘ Edito Mat Ravice is preached rank heresy, e.g., ‘Learn to rega 
sapere as siely printed information, and rid your mind of all superstitions 
reverence for the copies which you possess. They were made for your use, 
and employ them ac ingly.’ Certainly use them as iat as your e g 
ence will allow, but we don't all see the use of rom the schoolmaster $ 
point of view, or e f the educational publisher. The WHS. 
ile et his books as he would a time-table, might scab? Bs treat eh oes bar’ 
t ‘ie 
in the edie way, ‘T BY, are oy printed information ' !—S.L, 
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