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From the House & 
The English Countryside. By E. C. 
Pulbrook. Chas. Scribner’s Sons. $3.00. 
When John Masefield wrote the 
greatest of the English war poems, 
“The 14th of August,” he hymned 
not hate nor truth nor murderous 
sword; he wrote simply of the peace¬ 
ful English countryside. It was a 
study in contrasts with the contrast¬ 
ing desolation of a nearby people 
suggested solely by the reader him¬ 
self. Something of the same ghastly 
contrast comes to one in reading this 
beautiful volume on the English 
countryside. For it is beautiful in 
subject, in picture and in word, a 
mellow study of a mellow land; its 
cliff bulwarks, its quiet creeks, its by¬ 
roads, trackways. To those who have 
been there, to those who would that 
they were there, to those who know 
and appreciate fine craftsmanship in 
hooks—good test, good pictures, good 
type and high spirit—this volume on 
the English countryside comes as a 
source of great refreshment. 
The Boy’s Book of Pets. By W. 
Percival Westell. New York: Frederick 
A. Stokes Co. $1.75 net. 
Every real boy passes through the 
pet-keeping age, and some, indeed, 
never outgrow it. In this recent ad¬ 
dition to a well-known series of 
books is given information which 
will enable the boy not only to 
choose his pets wisely and with full 
knowledge of their characteristics, 
but also to maintain them in health 
and good spirits. 
Several hundred different kinds of 
creatures are considered, ranging 
from lizards, snakes and fish to the 
more conventional cats, mice, dogs 
and pigeons. Many of these are il¬ 
lustrated with photographs, and the 
book as a whole makes a readable 
and informative natural history. 
We are glad to note that the au¬ 
thor brings out strongly the respon¬ 
sibility which anyone assumes in un¬ 
dertaking to keep pets. Careless, 
hit-or-miss methods are discouraged, 
and the importance of faithful, reg¬ 
ular care of the dependent creatures 
is fully emphasized. 
Camp Craft. By Warren H. Miller. 
Charles Scribner’s Sons. $1.50. 
To most of us the Red Gods that 
are alleged to lure man into the 
wilderness are known only through 
the medium of poetry or when of¬ 
fice work begins to pall in the spring. 
But here is a book to bring you face 
to face with these Red Gods. Writ¬ 
ten by a man who has seen them— 
sat in their sunset glow, bathed in 
their streams and followed the haunt 
of their call in many regions—“Camp 
Craft” is the sort of book that should 
appeal to all men who shoot or fish 
or tramp. It is sanely, rigidly prac¬ 
tical. It puts efficiency into outdoor 
living. It is, in short, a handbook for 
those who don’t know how in the 
wilds. Among the subjects treated 
are tents, cook-kit, camp comforts, 
hitches and taking the family along 
—the whole range of wilderness life. 
Illustrated with photographs and dia¬ 
grams, and told in a straightaway 
breezy style, it is sure to catch and 
sustain the interest of all who glance 
at its pages. 
The Human Side of Plants. By Royal 
Dixon. New York: Frederick A. 
Stokes Co. $1.50 net. 
“In many of the plant acts describ¬ 
ed,” writes Mr. Dixon in the fore¬ 
word of this book, “I am declaring 
heretofore unpublished truths, truths 
Garden Book Shelf 
which.will unquestion¬ 
ably meet the entire approval of those 
naturalist-botanists of the more 
modern type, who accept no result 
without its cause.” 
Well, let us see. In the chapter 
entitled Plants that Mimic, we find 
this sentence: “A desert plant often 
begins to drop its prickles when 
placed in a climate and under condi¬ 
tions where it no longer needs them.” 
Are we wrong in assuming this to 
imply that the cause of the falling 
spines is a realization on the plant’s 
part of the futility of growing them 
under the new conditions? We can¬ 
not but wonder how many real “na¬ 
turalist-botanists” will accept this 
reasoning instead of attributing the 
plant’s action to a certain falling off 
in vitality due to the unaccustomed 
conditions of soil and climate. 
A few pages farther on, still under 
the “Mimic” heading, comes this 
paragraph: “The sea-weeds also are 
imitative. They mimic many earth¬ 
ly and human things; the broad green 
and red fronds are perfectly simu¬ 
lated ribbons; the numerous forms 
and colors of algae lie marvellously 
close to laces, frills, threads, nets and 
feathers floating in the sea. What a 
world of imitations under the water! 
Here a string of beads; there a 
graceful sea-fan carelessly waving at 
some phantom lover! Beads, neck¬ 
laces, jewels, all displaying their 
ornate loveliness to any one who will 
behold!” 
Where, indeed, could one look for 
a more entrancing, marvelous galaxy 
than these ocean plants assembled for 
their Summer Fashions show ! Dele¬ 
gates from Palm Beach are there, 
with full reports on last winter’s lat¬ 
est things in ribbons and frills a la 
surf. Newport’s beach is the bead 
and jewel center; the most aristo¬ 
cratic sea-weed reporters go there, 
and when they return their stories are 
eagerly listened to by the really chic 
and up-to-date in ocean flora. Shades 
of Linnaeus! Can such things be, 
and are we really expected to believe 
that the curious shapes of many 
plants and flowers are deliberate imi¬ 
tations of man-made articles the age 
of whose form-origin, compared to 
that of the plants themselves, is as 
one to one million? 
We should like to continue. If 
space permitted we would tell of that 
interesting plant which simulates the 
odor of roast beef; of the one whose 
odor is an imitation of cheese; of 
still another (presumably a haunter 
of dairies), whose scent is modeled 
on that of sour milk. We should 
like, too, to ask Mr. Dixon whether 
that Texas grass which he says 
crawls under protecting cacti and 
mesquite to escape from the maraud¬ 
ing cattle has ever heard of the grand 
old sport of the Southwest, collo¬ 
quially known as “throwing the bull.” 
Indeed, there are many other star¬ 
tling statements and insinuations in 
the book to which we would like to 
call the attention of naturalist and 
layman alike if we but could. 
Market Gardening. By B. F. L. Yeaw. 
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., $.75. 
When one considers that the in¬ 
come from the sale of vegetables is 
practically twice that produced from 
the great fruit industries of the coun¬ 
try, he begins to realize the value of 
market gardening, and the necessity 
for placing the work on an efficient 
basis. This little handbook puts in 
crisp form just what a man should 
know if he would make his truck 
patch pay. 
Seventeen 
By BOOTH 
TARKINGTON 
A Tale of Youth and Summer 
Time and the Baxter 
Family—Especially William 
If you are a man and have ever 
been seventeen, or if you are a 
woman and have ever been seven¬ 
teen, this story is for you. But, 
alas! if you yourself are now sev¬ 
enteen, this story is not for you. 
Cloth, $1.35 net. Leather, $1.50 net. 
The Side of 
the Angels 
By BASIL KING 
Author of “ The Inner Shrine” 
“There is faithful depictment in 
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splendid vision. Against the peak¬ 
ed background of a little New Eng¬ 
land village the author has 
moulded in high relief a battle, 
mental, moral—and physical, too 
—of personalities, of motives, of 
souls and souls’ substitutes. 
Through the big, shy, over-meek, 
over-strong Thor Masterman, Ba¬ 
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most satisfying, yet most provok¬ 
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Evening Sun. 111. $1.35 net. 
People Like 
That 
By KATE 
LANGLEY BOSHER 
Author of “ Mary Cary ” 
A spirit of love for others 
breathes through this vivid story 
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through the world to-day—-“Am I 
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Arden 
By RUTH SAWYER 
Author of “ The Primrose Ring ” 
Full of charm, brimming with 
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new-mown hay, fairly tripping 
with laughter and sunshine. And 
all through it sparkles a perfect 
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there is also a man in it—several 
men, for that matter. 111. $1.25 net. 
Neglected Points 
of Auction Bridge 
By 
CARL EHLERMANN, Jr. 
In this helpful book the fine 
points which are most frequently 
neglected both by bridge players 
and bridge editors are here set 
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way, not merely a way, of playing 
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