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but founded on their value to man as the source (and therefore 
symbol) of a higher type of life.” This extract gives a fair idea of 
the author’s treatment of his subject, but it does not convey an 
adequate notion of the amount of learning of different kinds which 
he brings to bear upon it. 
THE GaRDEN,’ by May Crommelin (T. Fisher Unwin, 
Paternoster Square), is a handsome volume, not improved, however, 
i gra As might be 
oug an ‘ 
‘‘ Eyebright or Euphrasy ” she has three quotations, two referring 
to Veronica Chamedrys and one to Euphrasia; the quotation under 
Honesty” d 
“Acacia” three different plants seem commemorated. The 
undew, Sweet Gale, Dandelion, and the like, would hardly be | 
found ‘in the garden.” 
Mr. Exuior Stock sends us an exquisitely-printed little volume 
entitled ‘The Praise of Gardens; a Prose Canto, ¢ i and in 
part Englished by Albert F. Sieveking.’ This is worthy in its own 
particular line to stand by the side of that most delightful book, 
‘The Book-lover’s Enchiridion.’ Beginning with an extract from an 
