REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES 
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They are not fables, but simple stories of the fads of Nature, so plainly told that 
the children may read them for themselves, and so suj;gestive as to set the reader 
pondering on what are in fact some of the most profound problems in biology. 
The hidden science is all thoroughly accurate ; but there is no technicality lo 
repel. There are numerous excellent photographic illustrations bv Charles 
Reid and W. I’. Dando, one of the former of which Messrs. .Macmillan have 
kindly lent for reproduction ; but the few engravings from drawings are not 
particularly good. So skilful is the translation that the (lerman origin of the 
book is chiefly revealed by the triumphant shooting of a fox by a keeper. 
The Case for IVhitgift's Hospital. Hy J. .M. Hobson, M.D., H. Sc. Published 
by the Croydon .\ntiquitits Piotection Committee. Price 3d. 
We have often briefly alluded in these pages to the threatened destruction of 
the most interesting building in Croydon ; but in this capital little brochure. Dr. 
Hobson has reprinted from the Croydon Guardian an eminently rearlable exposi- 
tion of the whole argument for the preservation of Archbishop Whitgift’s founda- 
tion, at a length for which we have unfortunately not the space. The author tells 
the story of the Hospital, comparing it to its predecessors and to its imitations, 
Abbott’s Hospital at Guildford, Sir Thomas Sutton’s foundation at the Charter- 
house, and Sackville College, East Grinstead : he describes its architecture, of 
which the oak overmantel, is perhaps the gem ; and finally he tells the story of 
the proposed demolition. “ Consequent upon what happened in 1897, the 
Croydon Antiquities Protection Committee sprang, hydra-like, from the side of 
the Selborne Society ’’ ; and, besides mere protests again.st the threatened van- 
dalism, that body has been instrumental in suggesting several perfectly practicable 
alternative schemes, maps representing which are among the eight illustrations to 
the present pamphlet.” 
One and .411 Gardening, 1905. Edited by Edward Owen Greening. Agricul- 
tural and Horticultural Association. Price 2d. 
What can we say about this marvellous production? Two hundred pages of 
interesting and practically useful matter, comprising some forty articles by such 
gardeners as Mr. Dean, Mr. Wright and the late D. T. Fish, illustrated by 150 
photo-engravings and woodcuts, make this tenth issue fully equal to its wonderful 
Dioncea muscipula. (From “ One and All Gardening, 1905.” By permission 
of E. O. Greening, Esq.) 
predecessors. We have come to look forward to the popular botanical articles by 
the Hon. H. A. Stanhope and Mr. James Scott, one of the illustrations to the 
former of which we are permitted to reproduce here ; but the amateur gardener 
will find the whole volume readable from cover to cover. 
