Reviews. 95m 
Hardwicke’s Sctence-Gossip. 
THIS most interestingly valuable little serial is a great 
boon to lovers of science, our appreciation of its contents 
may be judged by our reprinting for the benefit of our 
readers, an article on Diatoms, and one on the culture and 
growth of the Pine-Apple. Altogether it is a very successful 
feature in the scientific literature of the day. 
The Artizan. Salisbury street, Strand. 
SINCE 1843 this journal so exclusively devoted to the con- 
sideration of scientific and artistic matters has lost nothing 
of i's early excellence. Its contents are varied and afford 
much useful information for those readers for whom it is 
intended. The January No. is the first of a fourth series 
and is a decided improvement both in matter and get up 
to antecedent issues. A work eminently useful in its 
sphere. 
The Distinctive Characters of the Principal British Natural 
Orders of Plants. By WILLIAM A. TILDEN, F.C.S. 
London. 
THE above is a very carefully arranged table of British 
plants. It will be found to be of great service by students 
of botany. 
Oh! Meet Me at the Stile. A Ballad. By RICHARD 
FLETCHER. London: W. Williams and Co, 221 
Tottenham Court road. Price 2s. 6d. 
THIS ballad is from one of whom we have not heard of 
before ; but, from its beautifully soft ani plaintive strain, 
shall no doubt have the pleasure of receiving others in 
due time. The melody is sweet and very pretty. It 
ranges with such songs as “ Would I Were a Bird,” “ Annie 
Laurie,” &c. ; indeed, is quite in the style of the Christy 
Minstrels’ songs, to whom it would be a great acquisition. 
We strongly recommend it to the lovers of this class of 
ballad. 
