14 NOVEMBER 1903, Page 23

Notes from a Lincolnshire Garden. By A. L. II. A.

(Elkin Mathews. 2s. 6d. net.)—The author discourses pleasantly about her subject generally, and about other things more or lass connected with it—the terror, for instance, of having a bat flying about in one's bedroom—about the song and habits of birds, about wild flowers, fr.o. (She gives an instance of Tenny- son's knowledge of Nature in his line, " By ashen roots the violets blow." The ash is a favourite habitat of the violet.)