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tinguished therefrom, we have nothing but praise for this little book. It is not 
a “ reader,” but a teacher’s note-book, conveniently arranged under eighty- 
lessons, comprising, for instance, four on the horse, four on cattle, eleven on milk, 
dairying, and cheesemaking, seven on poultry, seventeen on British birds, and 
thirteen on insects. The book is very fully illustrated throughout, some of the 
drawings being such as would appear on a larger scale as wall-charts in rural 
(From “ Lessons on Country Life,” by kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co.) 
schools, while others, which are to our mind the more useful, and of which by the 
courtesy of the publishers we give an example, are outline diagrams suitable for 
reproduction on the blackboard. The notes are a remarkable storehouse of facts, 
with no attempt at the elegances of “ fine writing.” In a subsequent enlarged 
edition, we would venture to suggest that further life-histories of farm and garden 
insects might be added. 
Walton and some earlier Writers on Fish and Fishing. By R. B. Marston. 
The Book-Lover’s Library. Popular Edition. Elliot Stock. Frice is. 6d. 
“ It might sweeten a man’s temper at any’ time,” says Charles Lamb, “ to 
read ‘ The Compleat Angler.’ ” There is so much in common between the two 
books that it is a mere commonplace of criticism to class it w ith White’s “ Selborne.” 
Walton is even more gossipy than White, and those who love his gossip — and 
who that has read it does not? — will relish Mr. Marston’s gossip about him and 
his predecessors in the gentle art. By issuing this companionable book, as 
Lowell termed it, at a lower price, though in the best of type and handiest 
of forms, Mr. Elliot Stock has earned the gratitude of a wider circle of readers 
than the work has yet had. 
A Gloucestershir e Wild Garden, with some extraneous matter. By the Curator. 
With photographic illustrations. Elliot Stock. 
Some years ago Canon Ellacombe published a work with a title so similar 
to that of this book as to make confusion only too possible. This title is more- 
over somewhat misleading in another respect. The term “ wild garden” has 
come to be generally accepted as descriptive of a garden of hardy plants left very 
much to themselves, whereas the fascinatingly- beautiful pleasaunce described 
