270 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [VOL. XXXIII. 
Professor Bailey,’ with a horticulturist’s bias, most admirably 
teaches both pupil and teachers how to study twigs and buds, leaves 
and foliage, flowers, fructification, propagation, the behaviors and 
habits of plants, and the kinds of plants — to which he adds sugges- 
tive paragraphs on pedagogical methods, books, classification, evolu- 
tion, and the interpretation of nature and the growing of plants. 
Nothing could be better in its way — and it is a very good way — 
than this addition to the products of the pen of a versatile and pro- 
lific writer. 
Professor Barnes,” from the point of view of the physiologist, at- 
tempts to exhibit to pupils 13 to 18 years of age, who are engaged 
in genuine laboratory study, the variety and progressive complexity 
of the vegetative body, to explain the unity of plan in both the 
structure and action of the reproductive organs, and to give an out- 
line of the more striking ways in which plants adapt themselves to 
the world about them. It is to be feared that he has aimed over 
their heads. 
Professor Atkinson,” perhaps with less leaning toward any one 
side, gives fourteen chapters to physiology, twenty-one to morphol- 
ogy, eight to lessons on plant families, and thirteen to ecolo 
Each of these books is good. If one could have only one of 
them, he would probably choose the first or the last noticed, which 
happen to come from the same faculty —that of Cornell University. 
But the point of view is so different that whichever he had, he would 
wish to complement it with the other — or to write his own book. p, 
Rhodora‘ is the euphonious title of a new journal, started with the 
current year, by the New England Botanical Club. It is well gotten 
up, and under the editorship of Dr. B. L. Robinson, of the Gray 
Herbarium of Harvard University, it is sure to be well conducted. 
The initial number contains the following articles: Fernald, Rattle- 
1 Bailey, L. H. Lessons with Plants. New York, he Macmillan Company, 
1898. Pp. xxxi + 491, 446 ff. — First Lessons with Plants, being an abridgment 
of Lessons oii Plants. New York, The Macmillan Curia, 1898. Ph aF 
117, 116 ff 
2 Barnes, C. R. Plant Life Considered with Especial Reference to Form and 
Function. New York, Henry Holt & Peeing 1898. Pp. x + 428, 415 ff. 
8 Atkinson, G. F. Elementary Botany. New York, Henry Holt & Com- 
pany, 1898. Pp. xxiii + 444, 509 
Rhodora, Journal of the New Ragisnd Botanical Club. Price, $1.00 per year 
($1.25 to all foreign countries, except Canada). Editorial communications to be 
addressed to B. L. Robinson, 42 Shepard Street, Cambridge, Mass. Subscrip- 
tions, etc., to W. P. Rich, 3 North Market St., Boston, Mass. 
