BOOK EEVIEWS. ~ 439 



I In the book before us, Mr. Senn most successfully demolishes the 

 last-mentioned delusion by giving us nearly 500 different ways of 

 cooking the twenty-eight different vegetables with which he deals. And 

 as regards the first point we have mentioned, Mr. Senn is such a well- 

 known authority, and of such unique position, that there is not a chef 

 in the world but would be glad to take hints at his hands — indeed, 

 it can only be ignorant cooks who think they have no need of Mr. 

 Senn's teaching. 



Here, then, is a book from the highest authority and of unbounded 

 utility. It ought to be in the hands of every good cook, and of every good 

 housekeeper, too, from John o' Groat's to Land's End and from Land's 

 End to Thanet. The wider the circulation that gardeners can secure 

 for this book the better appreciation will they obtain for the vegetables 

 they send in to the kitchen; and the more cooks study it, the greater 

 the credit they will earn for their skill. 



"Profitable Bee Keeping." By H. Geary. 8vo., 124 pp. 

 (Pearson, London, 1911.) Is. net. < ■ 



This little book, written by a practical bee-keeper and expert ta 

 the Leicester Bee-keepers' Association, forms a very clear and concise 

 guide to that useful adjunct of the fruit garden and that source or 

 profitable pleasure — bee-keeping. It is written in such a lucid manner, 

 and so well illustrated, that the veriest tyro will find in it such instruc- 

 tion as will enable him to succeed if he but follow it faithfully. 



" Lessons on Soil. " By Dr. E. J. Russell. 8vo., pp. xv. + 132. 

 (University Press, Cambridge, 1911.) l.s. 6//. 



The author lias tried these lessons on that severe, if not always 

 articulate critic, the schoolboy in the village school. 



They are not only reliable— the author's name is guarantee enough 

 for that — but they are instructive as well, and teachers will find them 

 full of suggestion. Where school gardening forms part of the cur- 

 riculum these lessons, in the hands of the wise teacher, will prove 

 invaluable aids to a better appreciation of the soil with which the 

 children are so intimately in contact. 



