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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
New Creations in Plant Life: an authoritative account of the life and 
Luther Burbank. B ooD 
forty-nine illustrations and portrait. New York and London : 
mal ae & Co. 1905. 
‘Sav m my friends”! may well exclaim the subject 
this ARS ane In the very title the word ‘creations’’ 
t pr em 
Where t 
vocabulary of adulation has tended to fall short in de tal ls, 
forts himself (and his readers ?) that the subject of his déttohed: stndy 
‘thas never shrunk from giving still more of his strength to the 
illumination of obscure points”; and characterizes this as evidence 
of his ‘‘ superb vanaeetet Spinel even when ‘‘care soug. t out the 
strings ws ce — sa _ sharp discords upon them.” 
int to another in these pages, one is 
impreseed with the vexplbitation of the business methods of a Yankee 
nurseryman, as specialized in the patent Californian brand, to the 
extent of Windehng how far the pyrotechnics of the ‘“ yellow”’ press 
ave fizzled among the products of modern American literature. 
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hi 
News of New Jersey says of him :—‘‘ Luther Burbank—until ree cently 
an unknown name—has bestowed upon the world a greater incre- 
seers of oe in things done and things inevitable, which are for 
britioe in this decade or i previous sg or century.’’ After 
this perorative apne of values, the humble remarks of a plain 
reviewer must at. After this, ‘Is it too much to say that 
while sunshine, air, an c try.”’ One is 
almost inclined to hope that these elemental entities will, in awe 
nder, cease for a brief space to “ca ,? and t he 
an 
fruits which Mr. Burbank has made.’ If such could be the case, 
rrr popes of Californie must be poor indeed. But the apotheosis of 
ank proceeds apace. The average 80- oalled scientific man 
and Spen Hu 
painter, the saat | oe aos select and exclusive quinquivirate 
no other J erican has a in. 
Journat or Borany. —Vou. 44, (Fes. 1906.] ie 
