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We have received a new edition of a very handy

little book, Wayside and "Woodland Blossoms, Vol. II., by Edward Step (F. Warne and Co., 6s. net). It is really what it professes to be, a "Pocket-guide to British Wild-flowers." Three hundred and sixty-six species are described in words, and between one hundred and twenty and one hundred and thirty are pictured in colours We have also received a "popular edition" of The Simple Way (Philip Welby, Is. net), a new translation of the " Tao-Teh-King " of the Chinese philosopher Lotze. The translation, with the commentary, is by Walter Gorn Old.