6 My. Edward Arnold’s Autumn Announcements 
IN A YORKSHIRE GARDEN. 
By REGINALD FARRER, 
AuTuor or ‘My Rocx-Garpen,' ‘ALPpinzs AND Boc-PLANTS,’ ETC. 
With Illustrations. Demy 8v0., cloth. os. 6d. net. 
In his latest book on the garden, Mr. Farrer will delight his many 
readers by conveying them round all his own provinces, with 
accounts of this plant and that as he goes. Though less technical 
and severe than ‘ My Rock-Garden,’ his new book will be found more 
practical and helpful than ‘ Alpines and Bog Plants,’ in so far as it 
deals with the garden as it is, its ups and downs and difficulties as 
they lie before us, rather than with any purely abstract and visionary 
ideal of bog-garden or mountain-slope. In especial, will those who 
have long waited for help on the subject be delighted to hear that 
Mr. Farrer has at last dealt exhaustively and practically with the 
Moraine Garden ; nor, though rock-plants are, of course, Mr. Farrer’s 
particular friends, has he neglected other parts of the garden, but has 
many words to say on shrubs, and herbaceous treasures, and 
bamboos, and the wild garden. Let the names of a few chapters 
give a hint of the rest: The Old Garden; The Piz Languard and 
the Piz Padella; Among the Primulas; The Old Moraine ; Round 
the Frames; The Cliff-garden; The Terrace-wall; Alice’s Garden 
in the Wood. 
A SHORT HISTORY OF 
ENGLISH LITERATURE. 
By C. E. BAINES. 
Crown 8vo., cloth, 
This volume covers the entire period of the history of our 
literature down to the close of the Victorian Age, with the deaths of 
Swinburne and Meredith—but the period before Chaucer is only 
briefly dealt with. Special care has been taken that, while the book 
contains all the names, dates, etc., that a text-book should contain, 
it should be as little cumbered as possible with the names of writers 
who ‘ deserve a passing mention.’ Occasionally a typical author or 
work is dealt with at some length, even though this involves a 
sacrifice of proportion. This seems, on the whole, the best way, in 
a short book, to give the reader a general idea of any particular 
period without employing undesirably vague generalities. 
