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REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 



Mr. Fisher Unwin has just pubUshed 'Nature's Story of the Year,' by 

 C. A. Witchell (5s.). This is written in a pleasant style, and is well illus'- ' 

 trated bv drawin;j-s of birds, etc., by Miss Witchell and ]Mr. Neale, as well 



The British Adder. 



as by blocks from photographs. One of these we are enabled to reproduce. 

 The book is most suitable as a school prize for boys and g"irls, and as such 

 can be recommended. 



Of a somewhat similar character is 'Quiet Hours with Nature,' by 

 Mrs. Brig-htwen, issued by the same publishers. Most of this had pre- 

 viously appeared in serial form in ' The Girls' Own Paper.' The authoress 

 writes on a variety of topics, amonj^st which ' My Egyptian Jerboas,' 

 'Bobbie, the Barn Owl,' 'Ortolans,' 'The Horse Chestnut,' 'Eccentric 

 Flowers,' 'Stag- Beetle,' etc., etc., may be mentioned as g-iving- an idea of 

 the scope of the work. The writer is evidently a keen observer, and has 

 been able to put her observations in a pleasant form. This volume, too, has 

 numerous illustrations. 



' Veg-etable Thieves and Murderers' is the title of No. 3 of the penny 

 handbooks just issued by the Bradford Botanical Garden. It contains 

 a paper by Mr. T. Pawson describing- the various insectivorous and parasitic 

 plants now g-rowing- in the g-arden and g-reenhouses. The frontispiece 

 consists of drawing-s of three insectivorous plants, viz., Venus Fly Trap, 

 Pitcher Plants, and the Sun-dew. A second edition of publication No. i 

 ('Descriptive Handbook of the Trees in Lister Park ') already noticed in 

 these columns (March 1902, p. 88), has also been published, the size being- 

 uniform with that of Nos. 2 and 3. 



1904 September i. 



