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The year runs on : the grasses fade : 
Bent are they, broken and decayed. 
And from their scorched and dusty dress 
How fair they were you scarce could guess. 
Yet is eacli empty seedless glutue 
Promise and pledge of next year’s bloom. 
The seeds have fallen and therein lie 
The folded flowers of next July. 
A. P. 
REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES. 
Field- Path Rambles: Series 28. Alid-Surrey Series, comprising Routes round 
Reigate, Kingsivood, Horsley, Bookham, Cobham, Byjleel, Shere, Ripley, 
By Walker Miles. R. E. Taylor aiid Son. Price is. net. 
We wonder our Surrey lanes and Held-paths are not thronged, now that Mr. 
Miles has shown such entrancing routes to Newark Priory, Stoke d’Abernon with 
its brasses, the beautiful Church-Stile House, Cobham, and other favourite haunts 
of ours. The Tatlenham Corner Railway, on which, however, there are very few 
trains, has opened up some charming new ground, such as the country between 
Stoat’s-Nest, Chipstead and Woodmansterne, and here every point is as clearly 
mapped out as usual, with twenty-si.v pretty little photographs thrown in. 
The Quantock Hills, Their Combes and Villages. By Beatrice F. Cresswell. 
With Chapters upon Stag-hunting on the Quantocks, by Philip Evered, and 
The Folk of the Quantocks, by the Rev. C. W. Whistler. Homeland Associa- 
tion. Price 2s. 6d. net. 
Coleridge was but twenty-five when he wrote The Ancient Mariner, in which 
occur the immortal lines; — 
“ He prayeth best who loveth best. 
All things both great and small ; 
For the dear God who loveth us. 
He made and loveth all.” 
The epoch-marking volume of Lyrical Ballads in which it appeared belonged 
wholly to the Quantocks ; and, indeed, for many of us who have never had the 
good fortune to visit these beautiful hills it is their connection with Coleridge, 
Wordsworth and Southey that forms their sole association. The Homeland 
Association has done well, therefore, to publish this altogether adequate and 
daintily got-up addition to their series of Handbooks ; and considering that it has 
sixteen full-page photographic illustrations, perfectly reproduced, and eighteen 
others, with a folding map on the scale of one inch to the mile, in a pocket of the 
neat, flexible buckram cover, it cannot be considered dear. We are pleased to 
see the Society’s list of “ Don’ts ” for picnic parties reproduced, and also that the 
authoress says : “ I purposely omit mentioning localities, as too frequently infor- 
mation about rare plants leads to their extermination.” The scientific names of 
plants are not quite accurate in spelling. 
Wayside and Woodland Trees : a Pocket Guide to the British Sylva. By Edwar 
Step, F'.L.S. With 127 plates from original photographs, by Henry Irving, 
and numerous text figures drawn by Mabel E. Step. Warne and Co. 
Price 6s. 
We congratulate the author, artists and publishers of this manual on having 
excellently met a decided want. We have had many books on British trees, 
but most of them are out of print, or out of date, and none of them are so 
portable or so fully illustrated as this work of Mr. Step’s. Dealing, as it does, 
not only with our indigenous trees, but also with our more familiar alien species. 
