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plant wrestle with the vitalists, and the struggle sways first this way 

 and then that. And some stand aside and mutely, perhaps, proclaim 

 their agnosticism. But the author leaves no doubt on which side 

 he stands, and probably his is the right course, for while we may 

 explain much in terms of physics and chemistry, yet there is always 

 that incommensurable factor which the intellect cannot yet grasp, and 

 which we call life, which seems to modify and direct all the activities 

 of the organism towards one end. 



" The Door in the Wall : or the Story of My Garden." By Mrs. 

 Duggan. 8vo. 30 pp. (Country Life, London, 1915.) is. 



Only ten pages are occupied by the text of 1 his beautifully produced 

 little book, and they tell of a small garden of borders, lawn, and shrub, 

 beries tended by the author herself. She has written it to sell on 

 behalf of the heroes of the Manchester Regiment who have been 

 crippled in the war, and for this reason she is sure of our sympathy 

 and our help, and the description of her town garden will itself interest 

 many to attempt like triumphs, while the beautiful photographs 

 (of which there are ten) of artistically grouped and excellently grown 

 plants will well repay, by the pleasure they give and the lessons they 

 teach, the cost of the book. 



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