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IVaysiJe ami Woodland Blossoms: a Pocket Guide to British Wild Flowers. 
(First Series.) By Edward Step, F.L. S. With coloured figures of 127 
species by Mabel E. Step. Warne and Co. Price 6s. net. 
Mr. Step has already established his position as a popular expositor of natural 
history and the present work has in previous editions been widely welcomed. 
Coloured plates — even crudely coloured plates — are helpful to many beginners ; 
the author has reduced technicalities to a minimum ; and includes descriptions of 
394 species. The two volumes, of which the complete work is to consist, might 
certainly balance one another in two ordinary jacket pockets ; but it is a pity 
that the species could not have been arranged in scientific sequence. Miss Step’s 
drawing is sometimes excessively stiff, and the colours, as reproduced, would 
seem to us often calculated rather to mislead than to assist the student. 
A School Flora for the Use of Elementary Classes. By W. Marshall Watts. 
New Edition. With 174 illustrations. Longmans. Price 3s. 6d. 
This abridged descriptive flora of common flowering plants and pteridophytes 
was first issued in 1878, and was revised and reprinted in 1887. By the use of 
nineteen initials, the species found in the neighbourhood of as many public schools 
are indicated. The publishers have now added plates, most of which are made 
up of the inimitable drawings from Le Maout and Decaisne ; but the text 
remains unchanged ; so that, in addition to the original drawback that attaches to 
the use of any incomplete flora, the school-boy is given an obsolete nomenclature, 
that of the London Catalogue of 1886. 
The Homeland Handbooks : l.ynton, Lynmonth and the Lorna Doone Country. 
Price 6d. net. Horsham and St. Leonard's Forest. Price is. net. Hunting- 
don and the Great Ouse, with St. Neot's and St. Ives. Price is. net. 
Keigate and Redhill. Second Edition. Price 6d. net. The Homeland 
Association. 
Of this excellent and extremely cheap series of guide-books as a whole, 
including, as each of these volumes does, the ordnance map of the district, we 
can only emphasise the words of praise which we have used on previous 
occasions. We are not surprised to find that local authorities are gladly adopting 
them as “ official,” and we look forward to the appearance of many other 
volumes, so that they may practically describe the whole of our Homeland. 
Much interesting biographical and archa;ological matter is given, local sports 
are not omitted, and our “ Dont’s for Picnic Parties” appear in every volume; 
but we could wish that room could be found for more natural history, such as the 
“ exposures ” likely to interest the geologist and a mention, without precise 
localities, of the more important birds, insects, molluscs or plants. More space 
might, perhaps, have been given to the Sussex Iron industry, and its connection 
with the “hammer” ponds, in the Horsham volume, and we rather expected 
to have seen pictures of the gate-house of Blechingly Place and of the Godstone 
Almshouses, in the Reigate and Redhill guide. Cromwell is, of course, the main 
interest of Huntingdon, as is Lorna Doone and her creator, Richard Blackmore, 
of Lynton ; but in the volume on the former, in addition to notes on angling, 
a list of rare plants is given. Mistakes seem very rare in these valuable little 
books, a few letters misplaced in the scientific names to which we have just 
referred, and “ Macleary” for “ Macleay,” on p. 91 of the Reigate guide, being 
all we have noticed in our necessarily rapid perusal. 
Annuals. By T. W. Sanders, F.L.S. Agricultural and Horticultural Associa- 
tion. Price id. 
This neatly printed pamphlet is No. 2 of the “ One and All ” garden hooks. 
It runs to 32 pages and contains many illustrations, so that it is phenomenally 
cheap, and its contents are trustworthy. 
Sportsman' s Map of the Dominion of Canada. Canadian Pacific Railway. 
This map, on the scale of 100 miles to the inch, has the names of the various 
game mammals, birds and fish printed across the various districts in red. We do 
not know to what game birds the name “ chicken,” which appears on the 
Northern United Stales, may apply. 
