MISCELLANEOUS.—The Flora of Bournemouth, including the Isle of Purbeck. By
Edward E. Linton, M.A. (H. G. Commin, Bournemouth. 83.6d. net.)—Mr. Linton concedes that the immediate neighbour- hood of Bournemouth is not rich in flowers—save for the autumn' show of heather—but tells us that search further afield is well rewarded. The area includes "a circle drawn with a twelve-mile radius from the Square, Bournemouth." With this range granted, " we begin to wonder whether there is any limit to the floral wealth of the district."—Of holiday books we have to mention Illustrated Pocket Guide to the West Highland Railway (Frederick W. Welson and Co., Glasgow.)—In the " Temple Classics" (J. M. Dent and Co., Is. 6d. net per vol.) we have Tuily's Offices, turned out of Latin into English by Roger L'Estrange, and Areopagttica, and other Tracts, by John Milton.— In Patriotism or Self-Advertisement ? (Greening and Co., 2d.) Miss Marie Corelli employs the patruais verbena linguae pretty freely. Mr. Rudyard Kipling comes in for some strokes which are at least meant to be severe. Here we cannot think that the censure is just, and we should be sorry to commit ourselves to a general approval of this " Social Note on the War," as the author calls it. But that it says some true things and says them forcibly can hardly be denied. Perhaps it is when the author is moat remote from the war that she is at her best. Her criticism of certain successful novels and plays, and, we may add, of certain fashionable women, is very much to the point.— Shakespeare's "As You Like It" Adapted for Amateur Perform- ance. By Elsie Foggerty. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co. 2s. 6d. net.)—This one of a series of " Standard Plays for Amateur Performance in Girls' Schools." It is an excellent idea, and to judge from this specimen, promising to be well carried out. We wish that amateur performers generally would consider the claims of such a series. The choice of a play in a school is commonly in competent hands ; but a casual concourse of amateurs will often take, from sheer ignorance or helplessness, something quite unfit. Then there are directions for the practical needs of representation, hints for stage management, and pictures representing characters as they should be dressed. The "stage directions " are usefully copious and full.
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