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course with America to Irish instead of Icelandic sagas, and actually calls 
Erick Upsi, bishop of Greenland in 1121, an Irishman ! Surely it would be 
worth while for the publishers to go to a little extra expense to avoid such 
blunders as these, and escape from the inevitable suspicion that, where such 
occur, others, perhaps of more consequence and less easily detected, are to 
be expected. 
TREES AND FERNS.* 
~i /TR, HEATH has published a small volume in which he treats of both 
Till his favourite subjects — trees and ferns — we presume with the object 
of reaching a public who would be deterred from purchasing his larger and 
more expensive books. It is, in fact, merely a reprint of the more general 
portions of his “ Woodland Trees” and “Fern World,” with a couple of 
chapters from the “ Fern Paradise.” As we have already noticed those 
works, we need say little about the present one, except that as giving certain 
details of the structure and mode of growth of ferns and trees in a popular 
form it may be recommended as tending to foster in the young a taste for 
botanical studies, and as furnishing a useful guide to the first steps of the 
beginner. With regard to ferns, some instructions in collecting and growing 
them are also given. Like Mr. Heath’s former publications the little book 
is prettily illustrated. 
* “ Trees and Ferns.” By Francis George Heath. Sm. 8vo. London : 
Sampson Low, Marston & Go., 1879. 
