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THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 



The bulk of the book is made up of descriptions of the plants, 

 their uses and the methods of cultivating and preparing them, 

 but this is preceded by fifty pages devoted to general matters 

 pertaining to the group as a whole. The author is inclined to 

 agree with the French who say that the Americans are ''people 

 of one sauce." It is probably true that we use fewer plants for 

 flavoring than Old World people. The average housewife's 

 knowledge of such things seldom extends far beyond sage, 

 parsley, summer savory, and mint, though the author shows 

 that there are many more as easily obtained that are capable of 

 giving entirely new flavors to our food, especially to cheap cuts 

 and left-overs. The book has numerous illustrations and is 

 written in a bright and lively style that ought to do much 

 toward popularizing the plants described. It is published by 

 the Orange Judd Co., New York. Price 75 cents net. 



Except for the fact that George W. Hunter's "Essentials 

 of Biology" is not really a volume on biology but is instead 

 three volumes on botany, zoology, and human physiology 

 bound in one, very little fault can be found with it by those who 

 like that kind of a book. Botany comes first in the arrange- 

 ment with the time-honored sequence of topics reversed to the 

 extent that flowers, fruits, and seeds come before a study of 

 leaves, stems, and roots. Then follow chapters on morphology 

 and ecology after which zoology and physiology are taken up. 

 The book is apparently intended as a source of material for 

 recitations though the topics are presented as a series of prob- 

 lems which the student is supposed to investigate in the labora- 

 tory before discussing in the class-room. The book is well 

 written and profusely illustrated and ought to serve the pur- 

 poses of schools in which the two branches of biology are not 

 recognized as separate sciences. It is published by the Amer- 

 ican Book Co. at $1.25. 



