BOOK NEWS. 



"The Fern Allies of North America" is the title of a volume 

 by Willard N. Clute that is expected to appear early in 1905. It 

 will be a companion volume to "Our Ferns in their Haunts." 



Notwithstanding the fact that the end of the average scien- 

 tific journal follows pretty closely upon the beginning, new publi- 

 cations continue to spring into existence. Among the more re- 

 cent ones. The Amateur Naturalist, Binghamton. N. Y., bids fair 

 to outlast its contemporaries by reason of the fact that its editor 

 and owner has been engaged for many years in the printing 

 business, owns his own office and therefore is not so dependent 

 upon a large subscription list as some others. The contents of the 

 first numbers, however, indicate that a large subscription list is 

 likely to be his also. 



The second part of Grout's Mosses"* continues that excellent 

 work from the Dicranaceae through the Tortulaceae. Too much 

 cannot be said in praise of the clear and accurate plates reprinted 

 from various sources, twenty-four of which are found in the 

 present issue, to gether with numerous other cuts in the text. The 

 text is both lucid and accurate and the keys most helpful. Un- 

 doubtedly this is the best book for moss students to be fcund 

 in America. 



"The Garden Diary"t is a little book in which there is a 

 page for each day in the year, headed with some appropriate 

 quotation from the British poets, together with notes on the 

 progress of the seasons in England. Enough space is left for 

 various notes by the owner. It is issued for British readers, but 

 will be found interesting and useful by readers on this side of 

 the world. 



An unique and valuable contribution to tree literature is J, 

 Horace McFarland's "Getting Acquainted With the Trees."** It 

 is not another "popular manual" but a collection of essays on trees 



*Mosses with Hand-Lens and Microscope, Part IT. By A. J. Grout. 

 New York: Published by the author. 1904. 8 vo., paper, $1.00. 



tThe Garden Diary. By Rose Kingsley. New York: James Pott & Co. 

 1904. 16 mo., 75c net. 



**Getting Acquainted with the Trees. By J. Horace McFarland 

 New York: The Outlook Co. 1904. 8 vo., 240 pp., $2.50 net. 



