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his country. In an interesting appendix there is an article on " The 

 World's Food Problem " that deserves the careful study of everyone ; 

 in fact, it is seldom one sees a book so full of sound practical matter. 

 It is well and clearly printed, on good paper, well bound, and the only 

 fault we have to find with it is its want of an index. This need 

 may, we hope, be remedied in future editions. 



"The Art and Craft of Garden Making." By Thomas H. Mawson. 

 Fol., 404 pp. Fourth Edition. (B. T. Batsford, London, and Chas. 

 Scribner's Sons, New York, 1912.) £2 10s. net. 



We feel quite sure that those of our readers who are already familiar 

 with the former editions of Mr. Mawson's important work on garden 

 design will not, upon casually opening the sumptuous volume before 

 us, recognize that it is substantially the same book in a newly revised 

 and enlarged form. And yet a little closer scrutiny will unquestion- 

 ably reveal the fact that such is the case, and that it is none other 

 than an old friend in a new guise. 



To consider it first of all externally, it may be said that in style 

 and get-up generally author, printer, and binder have every cause for 

 congratulation. The book has been enlarged in size and in form, for 

 the previous editions were quarto, whereas the new one is folio, and 

 the literary matter now runs into upwards of 400 pages. It is bound 

 in a neat art canvas cover of sober blue, with gilt lettering. Inside, 

 the typographical execution leaves nothing to be desired. In a 

 large sized, old faced, clean cut type, well spaced, the text is quite 

 a pleasure to read, and the eye experiences no fatigue in its progress 

 over the pages. Modern facilities for book illustration have enabled 

 the author to embellish the book with quite a considerable number 

 of well executed photographic views from actual examples of his 

 work and of numerous garden views, plans, sketches, and drawings of 

 garden accessories, all of which are done in the best possible style. 

 We note, too, in this edition an innovation in the way of seven full- 

 page plates in colour, which with the black-and-whites bring up the 

 total to rather more than a picture for every page. 



So much for the book as far as it appeals to the eye only. We 

 have now briefly to give a general idea of the contents, an idea 

 that must perforce be a very superficial one considering the limited 

 space at our disposal and the very extensive area over which the 

 author travels. It must not be thought that this is a book intended 

 only for the use of the professional landscape gardener. On the 

 contrary, every garden-lover will find in its entertaining and readable 

 pages something to interest him beyond professional technicalities. 

 The small suburban amateur, with a refined taste for artistic display 

 in his villa garden, equally with the large landed owner with his 

 country estate, may find ideas as he turns over its pages which 

 may be useful when the time of laying out or altering his garden 

 arrives. 



The information and instruction conveyed by the author are 



