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raries seems quite to justify Mr. Mackie’s description of Tennyson as the friend of 
Darwin ; and the author does not seem to be aware that the same inspiration 
drawn from the theory of evolution which is to him an excellence in the poetry of 
Tennyson, furnished the text of a savage onslaught by Mr. Swinburne, who, in his 
article “ Tennyson or Darwin,” writes as if these allusions and illustrations were 
the baldest and most unpoetical of didacticisms. Mr. Mackie’s anthology of 
passages is fairly complete, and his essays cannot fail to interest those who love 
both poetry and Nature. 
A Primer of Forestry. Bulletin 24, U. S. Department op Agriculture , Division 
of Forestry. By Gifford Pinchot, Washington. Part I. — The Forest, 1903. 
Part II. — Practical Forestry, 1905. 
The first of these attractive little books treats of the life of a tree, including the 
structure of wood and the life and enemies of the forest, touching upon grazing, 
trampling and forest fires. The first half of the second volume is occupied mainly 
by a short account of silvicultural systems and of conservative lumbering, the 
second by a discussion of the relation of forests to climate, and a short history of 
forestry, with special reference to the United States. Sixty-five whole-page 
plates, besides 130 figures in the 176 pages of text, is almost too liberal an allow- 
ance ; and we cannot help feeling, in not a few cases, that a drawing or even a 
diagram might be more instructive than some of the photographs employed. 
Lessons from Life ( Animal and Human ) : a Compendium op Moral Teachings 
illustrated by curious and interesting Habits, Relations, Instincts, Peculiari- 
ties and Ministries of Living Creatures. With an Introduction by the Rev. 
Hugh MacMillan. Elliot Stock. Price 3s. 9d. 
This comprehensive volume affords an abundance of improving reading, 
mostly anecdotes of animal life, from which excellent morals are drawn. These 
are grouped under the headings: “Creatures of the Air, Creatures of the Water, 
Creatures of the Land, and Human Beings,” whilst three indexes, of subjects, 
moral truths, and passages of Scripture, should render the book of great use in 
providing preachers with illustrations. 
Homeland Handbooks : Dorchester ( Dorset ) and its Surroundings. By F. R. and 
Sidney Heath. With a Foreword by Thomas Hardy, and a chapter upon 
the Country Walks round Dorchester by the late Henry J. Moule. Home- 
land Association. Price is. net. 
Dorchester in Dorsetshire — there is another in Oxfordshire — has three real 
interests. Its present rank as a county town is the historically natural sequel of 
its ancient importance in Roman and Romano-British times, and of these times 
Maiden Castle and the amphitheatre of Maumbury Rings are the most striking 
memorials. In the immediate neighbourhood lived William Barnes, the Dorset- 
shire dialect poet, and within two miles of the centre of the town was born 
Thomas Hardy, whose works have made the whole of Wessex classic ground to 
the student of English literature. These three interests are admirably represented 
in this, the Corporation’s Official Guide. 
Vegetables, by Horace J. Wright ; and Perennials, by T. W. Sanders. 
Agricultural and Horticultural Association. Price id. each. 
These, the fourth and^ fifth number respectively of the “ One and All Garden 
Books,” maintain the character of this excellent and phenomenally cheap series 
of popular illustrated handbooks. 
Notes from Nature's Garden. By Frances A. Bardswell. With thirty-four 
illustrations from photographs. Longmans, Green and Co. Price 6s. 6d. net. 
Some forty brief papers, arranged under the four seasons, written mainly near 
the Norfolk coast, and treating of out-door life from the contemplative and 
appreciative rather than the instructional point of view, make pleasant reading, 
whilst the illustrations, four of which we are permitted, by the courtesy of the 
publishers, to reproduce, are of exceptional excellence and of a varied interest. 
