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{b) Where any person encamps on any land, or lights any fire, or does any 
damage to the surface of the land, or to any trees growing thereon, or to any 
buildings, fences, or any erections thereon. 
(c) Where any person destroys or removes the I'oots of any plants or shrubs. 
{d) Where any person so disturbs any sheep or cattle as to cause damage to 
their owner. 
{e) Where any person goes on land with any malicious intent, or wantonly 
disturbs or annoys any person engaged on such land in any lawful occupation. 
S- Nothing in this Act shall apply 
(а) To any lands actually occupied and enjoyed as 'a park or pleasure ground 
in connection with and in proximity to a dwelling house. 
{b) To any plantation of young trees. 
(б) This Act shall not extend to England and Ireland. 
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Mr. II. W. Traill has lately given us a goodly list of our minor poets, but it 
is far from being complete. Mr. K. F. Towndrow, whose A Garden and other 
Poems (F. Fisher Unwin) we have just received, is not among the number who 
appear on the list, but his little volume seems to entitle him to a place there. The 
worst of it all is that we have so many poets ; they crowd each other out, as it 
were. We may not agree with the Laureate that — 
“All can grow the flower now 
For all have got the seed,” 
but it must be admitted that there are many who write verses which, were the 
gift less common, would attract more notice than is at present the case. Mr. 
Towndrow has a keen love of Nature, and expresses himself in a pleasing manner. 
Here is a sonnet on “ Gradual Spring.” 
“ Bird voices gather volume day by day 
Where Windflowers whiten under naked boughs. 
The trusted confidants of early vows 
And nesting schemes. Here a precocious spray. 
Leafless and black, with crowded bloom is gay : 
In that warm nook the Celandine allows 
Her golden stars to glisten : now endows 
The Primrose, with pale gold, each woody way. 
.Skies of intenser blue provoke earth’s green, 
In loving rivalry, to clothe her woods ; 
The hedgerows brighten with their leafy buds 
Ere yet the Hawthorn’s snowy wreath is seen : 
Now anxious parent birds and clamant broods 
Declare that Winter is not, but has been.'’’ 
Mr. Albert Millican gives us a plain, unvarnished tale in his Travels and 
Adventures of an Orchid Hunter, a handsome volume lately published by 
Messrs. Cassell (l6s. fid. ). He has made five journeys after orchids during four- 
years in northern .South America, Columbia, and the West Indies, “ travelling 
wdth natives through the forest, sharing with them the hospitality of the wayside 
hut or the forest shelter and the camir-hre, as well as the more agreeable life of 
hotels and towns.” The illustrations, from photographs by the author, give an 
additional value to the book, which will find a place in the library of every orchid 
grower. 
We have also received from Messrs. Cassell an excellent introduction to the 
study of Geography, by Mr. II. O. Arnold- Forster, entitled. This World of Ours 
(2s. fid.). 
Mr. Reginald Blomfield and Mr. Inigo Thomas have done all that pen and 
pencil can do to make The Formal Garden (Macmillan, 7s. fid. net) attractive: 
we have seldom seen a more beautifully printed or charmingly illustrated book. 
