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" Farm Accounts." By C. S. Orwin. 8vo. 209 pp. (Cambridge 

 Univ. Press, London, 1914.) 3s. net. 



It has been said that a greater number of farmers fail through lack 

 of proper book-keeping than from any other cause, and probably the 

 statement is not greatly in error. Few people need to keep books more 

 carefully than the farmer, for his business is a many-sided one and its 

 financial success depends upon a thorough knowledge of the cost of 

 production. Farm book-keeping has usually, at its best, been an 

 adaptation of shop book-keeping, and the author has endeavoured to 

 show how it may be done with the special needs of the farm in view, 

 and points out the method of valuation on a sound basis. The book 

 is, of course, intended for farmers, but market gardeners will find hints 

 of considerable value in it, and we commend it to them. 



" A Book of Simple Gardening, especially adapted for Schools." 

 By Dorothy Lowe. 8vo. 92 pp. (University Press, Cambridge, 

 1914.) 2s. net. 



On the title-page it is said that this book is " especially adapted 

 for schools." It would seem to us, however, to be more suitable for 

 young amateur gardeners, some of whom might peruse it with 

 advantage. 



The Beginner's Garden Book. A Text-book for the Upper 

 Grammar Grades." By Allen French. 8vo. 402 pp. (Macmillan, 

 New York, 1914.) 4s. 6d. net. 



Written at Concord, Massachusetts, this book was intended to be 

 primarily a text-book of gardening for use in connexion with schools 

 in the United States. It covers not only school gardening, however, 

 but also the work of gardening at home. In the nature of things 

 it contains much that is not applicable to the English school garden, 

 but the way in which some of the lessons are dealt with should prove 

 suggestive to teachers. 



" A Monograph of the genus Sabicea." By Herbert Fuller Wern- 

 ham, B.Sc, F.L.S., Assistant in the Department of Botany. Svo, 

 82 pp., with 12 plates and text-figures. (British Museum (Natural 

 History), 1914.) 6s. net. 



We understand that since the publication of this work, which is, 

 we think, its author's first independent volume, he has received his 

 Doctor's degree from the University of London. We do not know 

 whether this masterly little monograph was a thesis for this degree ; 

 but in any case we can congratulate the University on the work of its 

 alumnus, and the Museum Trustees on the enlightened pohcy that 

 has led to its publication. For the purposes of his work Dr. Wernham 

 has visited the herbaria of Paris, Geneva, Brussels, and Madrid, with 

 the assistance of a grant from the Trustees, and has also examined 

 the materials available at Berlin, Stockholm, Cambridge, and Kew- 



