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inscribed upon the grey stone pedestal that forms the centre of some 
garden of pleasure. We have perhaps wandered towards it upon 
a path strewn with rose petals, and are abruptly reminded that " Life's 
but a walking shadow," or we are recalled to some prosaic every- 
day appointment by " It is later than you think " ; and if we do still 
linger, we may be yet more harshly awakened from dream fancies 
by " Thou mayest never see to-night." 
It is as a compensation for these crude realities found in the long 
list of stern sundial mottos, that we rejoice in the gaily coloured, 
somewhat medieval-looking, and most attractive binding of this 
book, and gloomy thoughts are also dispersed by the eight coloured 
pictures of nosegay gardens, seemingly all with their grey stone dials 
emerging from flowery backgrounds of pink, dark red, or scarlet flower 
borders or arbours. Each garden seems gayer than the last, and the 
frontispiece alone, which represents an autumnal park-like scene, 
takes our attention back to the wise words which those who lived 
in past centuries used to inscribe upon stone. 
Perhaps one of the most inspiring mottos that Mr. Warrington 
Hogg quotes is that which was used in modern times by the great 
artist G. F. Watts, on his dial at Limnerslease. It is " The Utmost 
for the Highest," and the food for reflection, the incentive to future 
effort that this one and some other mottos give us, together with 
the pleasing tout ensemble of this book, make it a charming gift to 
offer to a garden lover. 
" How to Lay out Suburban Home Grounds." By Herbert J. 
Kellaway. 2nd edition. 8vo., 134 pp. (Wiley, New York : 
Chapman & Hall, London. 1915.) 8s. 6d. net. 
It was the famous but self-taught landscape gardener Repton 
who first carried to a degree of excellence the art of giving instruction 
in his craft by means of illustrations. Each year modern writers 
add more and more books to the garden library, and, by showing in 
them representations of a house or garden in two stages of existence, 
they convey to the student what improvement can be achieved by 
careful study of lines, contour, and judicious planting. Plates XXXIII . 
and XXXIV. are instances of this, for we see a newly-built house, 
devoid of front garden, and then a second picture gives it with its strip 
of cultivated ground, its hedges now full-grown, which, by means 
of varying height, have a softening effect upon the building itself, 
as seen between their swaying branches. This book is eminently 
suited to those who, either for pleasure or from economical reasons, 
wish to lay out their own small suburban gardens, and the only regret 
is that where pictures and plans are so plentifully interspersed between 
the letterpress, they should not have been numbered by consecutive 
pages instead of only as individual plates and plans. Those who 
continually wish to refer to the pictures whilst reading the instructive 
contents of the chapters are apt to find the task a lengthy one. The 
