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The Wealth of Nature. By the Rev. J. Montgomery. (Simpkin

and Marshall.)—This is the first volume of a proposed series, and deals with the subject of good supplies from the vegetable kingdom. Every kind of plant, and every part of it. stalk, and fruit, and root, is described. The book hardly contains anything positively new, bat it has the merit of putting together in a convenient form much information that would not easily be met with. And it gives us some useful information ; on the subject of mushrooms, for instance, as to what should be eaten and what avoided. In short, it seems a good popular book, on a subject which has many attractions for young learners.