12 JANUARY 1895, page 21

The Book Of The Rose.* It Seems Almost Incongruous To

be discussing a new rose- book in the middle of winter, and we feel inclined to say with B iron :— " At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow on May's new-fangled......

Life Of Sir Richard Owen.*

Mn. OWEN in his biography of his grandfather has put together, from the material at his command, a striking record of a character marked by unusual gifts of acute- ness and......