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popular orders being taken first, i.e. the Butterflies and Moths. The text is 
clearly written and the type clear, with but few printer's errors. A weak point 
lies in the plates, as, although the figures are clear, there is no numbering of 
them on the plates themselves, which to the uninitiated would prove a serious 
drawback, e.g. Plate 18, Figs, n and 12. Again, why is valuable space occupied 
on Plate 16 by the presence of two non-British insects ? 
It is to be expected in a book of this size on such a large subject that de- 
scriptions should be vague, but the author has included all the most commonly 
met with species, with notes as to their general life histories and habits. 
Probably in a book intended for the young naturalist the author's point of 
view that the use of hydrocyanic acid gas against White Fly is to be deprecated 
(p. 182) is a sound one, as this gas is of too deadly a nature to recommend to the 
amateur. 
The inclusion of Anoplura (Sucking Lice) with the Hemiptera, and Mallophaga 
(Biting Lice) with the Platyptera, is rather curious, but the question of orders 
and their components is a much vexed one. However, this book is very worthy 
to be placed in the hands of the young entomologist to stimulate further 
interest in this absorbing study of the world's largest group of animals. 
" Home Landscapes." By W. Robinson. 4to. 78 pp. and many photo- 
gravure plates. (John Murray, London, 1920.) ^3 35. net. 
We reviewed the letterpress of this book and the earlier plates in our Journal 
(vol. xli. p. 139), and have nothing to add to what is there written, for no change 
whatever has been made in it, either in contents or " get-up." This edition 
differs from the former only in the addition of a number of very fine plates 
by the same clever photographer, Mr. George Champion, representing some of 
the most beautiful English houses with their immediate surroundings by photo- 
graphs reproduced in the best possible style. 
" The English Flower Garden." By W. Robinson. Ed. 13. 8vo. xii + 
796 pp. (John Murray, London, 192 1.) 30s. net. 
No book on flower gardening is better known and none more highly valued 
than this, and a new edition embodying all the old features (but with certain reduc- 
tions in size) and including revisions of the lists of worthy plants is an event in 
the history of garden literature which is worthy of note, for it gives an added 
length of life to the best book on garden flowers. It is needless to speak highly 
of it, and we can but regret that its price has had to be doubled, and that one of 
its revisers, Mr. E. H. Jenkins, on whom fell the task of bringing up to date the 
information regarding the herbaceous plants mentioned in the volume, has 
passed away before he could see his work widespread over the country, as 
it is bound to be. 
"The Forests of India." By E. P. Stebbing, M.A. 8vo. 548 pp. (John 
Lane, London, 1922.) 425. net. 
Amongst several works on the forestry and timber of British India that 
have been published, the present book (vol. i.) staiids far ahead of any other, 
and may justly be considered the most comprehensive and valuable that 
has yet appeared on the subject. The author was fortunate in having access 
to the Cleghorn Library, in the University of Edinburgh, the various books and 
papers in which contain a vast amount of reliable information on Indian forests. 
Dr. Cleghorn 's work was especially valuable, particularly in connexion with 
forest conservancy, and his book on " Forests and Gardens of Southern India " 
(1861) forms an invaluable record of the vast amount of work that was initiated 
and carried out, often in the face of great difficulties, by this pioneer of forest 
administration and protection. The introduction of forest conservancy in 
Burma, initiated by Brandis, is equally brilliant work that was accomplished 
under somewhat similar conditions to those of Cleghorn. Ribbentrop's ' ' Forestry 
in British India," published in 1900, was for long a standard book on this subject, 
while other useful works were those of Brandis, Gamble, and, later, Troupe 
(1921), all of which writers have contributed largely to our knowledge of the 
trees, timber, and forestry of that part of the Empire. The present work, which 
extends to 548 pages, is divided into four parts, of twenty-eight chapters, with a 
like number of beautifully executed illustrations. Part I. contains an exhaustive 
and highly interesting account of the forests of India, with a complete account 
regarding the formation of a company in London in 1599 for the purpose of 
starting a voyage from this country to the East Indies ; also the early history 
of the country and its influence on the forests, which is closely bound up 
with that of the ancient inhabitants. It is rather remarkable that as late as 
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