A Word for Books 



makes his essays often truly pathetic, and 

 in their pathos Hes a plain lesson for others. 

 The best of his words to remember are : 

 Once you wish to identify plants there is 

 nothing escapes ; and to these everyone 

 who has seriously tried to identify plants 

 will add : They can be identified only by a 

 study of botany ; no study is more pleasur- 

 able; and none is easier up to the point 

 where the mere lover of natural beauty may 

 be content to abandon it. 



Materials for the study of botany are 

 everywhere at hand ; no travelling is need- 

 ed, and no great exertion. The essential 

 tools are few and cheap. A couple of vol- 

 umes, like Gray's " Manual " and " Hand- 

 book, will give all needful introductory 

 knowledge, full descriptions of all plants 

 within a very wide area, and a glossary of 

 terms to assist weak memories. With a 

 knife, a long pin, and a common magnify- 

 ing-glass the student has all he wants, unless 

 he wants to end by being really a botanist. 

 A few weeks of work with living things to 

 illustrate the printed text — and of work 

 w^hich will seem quite like play — and any- 



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