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seven for a “Detailed Index of Observations recorded.” The publishers offer 
books as prizes to the children filling in the best diaries, and assuredly such a 
labour as the daily record of barometer, thermometer, rain-gauge, weathercock 
and anemometer, to say nothing of the homely hygroscope and all the biological 
and cultural columns, would deserve a prize. We hope, however, that teachers 
will try to train the children under their care in the accurate observation of a 
few facts and in tracing the connection between them, such as the early or late 
development of living beings in response to climatic variation, rather than in the 
unintelligent accumulation of isolated items. 
Epsom College Natural History Society. Report for 1906. Xo. 18. 5J inches 
X Scinches. S4 pages. With illustrations. Epsom: L. W. Andrews and 
Son. Price is. fid. 
This annual report maintains its excellent repute. In addition to the usual 
lists of first flowering, birds’ nesting, in.sects captured, weights and measures of 
the boys, and weather records, it contains an excellent illustrated paper on the 
fossils of Herne Bay, and several good local photographs. Campanula 
Rapunculus, which we, too, have seen near Stoke d’Abernon, may be an escape 
from ancient cultivation. 
Pictorial Landscape Photography. By J- C. Warburg. 5 inches x 7A inches. 
50 pages. Illustrated. Offices of Focus. Price fid. net. 
This is, as it professes to be, a thoroughly matter-of-fact practical manual, 
while the fine specimens of the author’s own work which it includes, prove that 
he knows what he is writing about. 
The Photographic Monthly for April contains six photographs of the young 
cuckoo from one to eleven days old, with Mr. J. Peat Millar’s description of how 
they were obtained. 
Potatoes. By the Hon. H. A. Stanhope. 5i inches x 8i inches. 20 pages. 
Agricultural and Horticultural Association. Price one penny. 
One of the excellent series of “ One and AH’’ garden handbooks, edited by 
Edward Owen Greening, F. K.H.S. The author gives very interesting details of 
the history of the popular tuber ; the best modes of cultivation ; the treatment 
for diseases ; the varieties suitable for different kinds of land ; and the book is 
very fully illustrated throughout, having, among other blocks, a copy of the 
woodcut in Gerard’s Herbal. 
What are We ? By Leonard Joseph. 7 inches x 10 inches. 394 pages. Illus- 
trated. Kegan Paul, Trench, Triibner and Co. Price 15s.net. 
In this volume Mr. Joseph has mapped out “ his former rambling theories on 
paper,” and at the same time has given us a multitude of facts and theories which 
he proceeds to consider. In some cases he appears not to have quite grasped 
the intention of the quotations from the writings of biologists with which he finds 
fault, and the deduciions from his own experiments are not awlays absolutely 
sound. Our space does not permit us to discuss Mr. Joseph’s philosophy in 
detail, but we may briefly outline his intentions. His first endeavour is to show 
that the German School of Philosophy is wrong, and that the world is real, and 
not merely a conception. Next he sets himself to show that the world has a 
purpose, and is not a thing of chance. He devotes some seventy pages to 
outlining all that is known about life. He claims that there is no cosmic intelli- 
gence or consciousness ; that thought is a mechanical process, and while there is 
a purpose in everything, everything is not done purposely. He points out a new 
psychological aspect of “ will,” and his standpoint is that the force, of which we 
are apart, is eternal but ever changeable, and therefore life will die out, as will 
also intelligence and matter itself, although motion remains. 
Received: Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden, vol. 5, No. ifi ; 
Descriptive Guide ; Bird Notes and News, vol. 2, No. 5, Spring No., 1907 ; 
The Museum Gazette, The American Botanist, and The Victorian Naturalist for 
March ; Bird-Lore for March and April ; and The Naturalist, The Irish 
Naturalist, The Animal World, The Animals’ Frie/id, Ike Humanitarian, 
Knowledge, The Agricultural Economist, The Estate Magazine and Progress, for 
April. 
