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writer’s |>art, whilst the artist has fully entered into the spirit of the book in 
his slight but capital sketches. 
Calendar of Mowering Trees atui Shrubs. By Henry Iloare. With illustrations 
by Miss Gertrude Hamilton. Richard Flint & Co. Price ys. 6J. 
Though we read of a rise in the price of paper, we are struck at every turn by 
the marvellous cheapness of books which leave little or nothing to be desired in 
typography or binding. This handsome buckram-bound (piarto ol about 150 pages, 
with whole-page chromolithographs of eight species, lists of trees and shrubs 
arranged according to month of Howering and situation and practical cultural 
directions, is likely to prove very acceptable to owners of gardens large or small. 
We are sorry to see the specific names printed with capital initial letters in the 
text and a consideiable number of mis-spellings among them. 
OTHER ^lEYIEWS AND EXCHANGES. 
Handbook of Plant Collecting. How to Collect, Dry and Mount Plants and 
/•'lowers as Botanical Specimens. With illustrations. By J. M. B. Taylor, 
Curator, Free Museum, I’aisley. J. and R. Parlane, Paisley. Price 6d. nett. 
This is an altogether excellent and practical guide, unlike any other book 
known to us in its scope and common sense. Every museum-curator and 
collector should procure it. 
The North American Slime-moulds. By Thomas H. Macbride, A.M., Ph.D. The 
Macmillan Company. Price los. net. 
The articles by Sir Edward and Miss Agnes Fry in this year's Knowledge 
and the excellent little threepenny “Guide to the British Mycetozoa exhibited 
in the Department of Botany, British Museum (Natural History)” by Mr. 
Arthur Lister, have done much to familiarise English students generally with the 
variety of interest and beauty afforded by these minute organisms on the border- 
land between the animal and vegetable kingdoms. What .Mr. Lister has done for 
the group as a whole in his more elaborate “Monograph” (15s.) that Professor 
Macbride now does for its North American representatives in the present 
scholarly work, which is enriched by eighteen beautiful plates. 
Animal World for November, in addition to its usual interesting contents, has 
an illustrated article on Nests. 
The Animals' Friend for November contains inter alia an article by the Editor 
of Nature Notes on the apparent cruelty of Nature. 
Received. — Knowledge, Science Gossip, The Naturalist, The Irish Naturalist, 
Humanity, Our Animal Friends, and The Agricultural Economistiot'i^o\t\Koex. 
