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Recent Books On Gardening.*

Tax history of gardening carries us back to far-off days, when Nausicaa led 'Ulysses to "where the garden yields a waste of flowers." From Chaucer and Shakespeare we learn what......

Mr. Waddington's Selection Of Sonnets Of To-day.* An...

is currently reported to have observed that it was all very well to say, "Scorn not the sonnet," but that the public did scorn it, or at any rate would not buy it. Probably the......