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Field Flowers. By Shirley Hibbard. (Groombridge.)—This is a very useful

little manual, by a writer whose competence for his task is too well known to need our testimonial. Mr. Hibbard arranges the flowers according to the months in which they are commonly to be seen. Some of the chief species are represented in coloured drawings ; and there are some useful lessons, verbal and pictorial, about their structure. Mr. Hibbard has, of course, had to make a selection to snit the modest size of his volume, but we miss in the index some names that one would cer- tainly expect to find there, the fox-glove, for instance, the cowslip and oxslip, and the fritillary. In the same connection we may mention the Rev. W. Houghton's Sea-side Walks of a Naturalist, a book which we should have noticed earlier, but of which our readers must make a note, if they want to secure a pleasant and useful companion for their next visit to the sea-side.