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do not represent fruits; but the rest do. The colour-printing has not in all 
cases been successful, or its effect is not always pleasing ; but the drawing is 
good and the photographs excellent. We do not e.x'pect botany from ^Ir. 
Hulme, but he gives us plenty of interesting gossip and excerpts from the old 
herbals. He has divided his matter into three chapters, trees occupying the 
middle one, and he wisely curtails his remarks on some plants that he may 
dilate on others of greater interest. We could wish that he had insisted on 
some regularity in the use of initial capitals to specific names : Glulinosa, 
Communis, Arvensis, Album, Vesca, Baccata, and Ftetidissima occur in the list of 
illustrations, and at the heads of the paragraphs all specific names begin with 
capitals, whilst in the Index we have Duticus carota and Euonymus Europaus. 
Fi^ly-Two Nature Rambles: a Series of Open-air Talks for Youn^ People. By 
W. Percival Westell. With 5 Coloured Plates from drawings by C. F. 
Newall, and 100 Illustrations from Photographs. inches x 5! inches. 
Pp. 237. Religious Tract Society. Price 3s. 6d. 
SVVALI.OWTAIL BUTTKRKLIES. 
From “ P'ifty-two Nature Rambles” (by kind permission ot the Religious 
Tract Society). 
Mr. Westell describes a weekly ramble with a small nephew, narrating the 
flowers they see and the birds they hear, and other Nature notes, throughout 
the year, in the form of dialogue, which, he suggests, may prove suitable as 
a “reader ” in school. There is sometimes a grandilocjuence of phraseology that 
we think out of place, too much insistence upon names and too much direct 
didacticism, whilst the dialogue form often irresistibly suggests “Sandford and 
Merton.” “ Uncle, that first flower you showed me, the greater stitchwort, we 
call Billy’s buttons. Which is the proper name, please ? ” 
