NATURE STUDY 213 
We may quote from the preface the following hints on the use of 
the book :—-‘The use actual specimens will mean that the 
being laid on the study of the leaves and flowers which the pupils 
have in their h id is no need to enter into a detailed 
criticism of the drawings, which, as has been sai ready, are 
excellently adapted to their purpose; letterpress—as 
e lette 
expected from the author of Messrs. Jacks’ “ Told to the Children i 
series of natural history books—shows an intimate knowledge of 
the plants described. 
r, Rennie’s Aims and Methods of Nature Study is described 
it will be found stim g 
buds black in the front of March,” and the like. The teacher who 
models his instructions on Dr. Rennie’s suggestions will succeed 
in interesting his class, and his hearers will hardly fail to profit 
by such instructions. Useful books of reference are indicated, but 
we think that something in the way of a select bibliography would 
add to the general usefulness of the book. 
Messrs. Duckworth haye done well in bringing out in one 
volume the two parts of their Eton Nature-Study and Observa- 
tional Lessons, published separately in 1903. The authors, Messrs. 
Matthew Davenport Hill and Wilfrid Mark Webb, have produced 
a useful book: the selection of subjects is excellent, the treatment 
simple but scientific, and the illustrations are remarkably good 
and very numerous. There is an interesting chapter on “Plant 
, that the opportunit; 
ously and to combine the 
