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Wayside Weeds; or, Botanical Lessons from the Lanes and Hedgerows.

By Spencer Thomson, M.D. (Groombridge and Sons.)—The next gene- ration certainly ought to be scientific if innumerable elementary treatises can make it so. Dr. Thomson fairly coaxes children into botany with his pleasant clear style and unpretending manner of treating his subject. The woodcuts with which his volume is pro- fusely illustrated are really admirable for the ingenuity with which plants are drawn from different points of view. This volume deserves,

success.