Chapters on Trees : a Popular Account of their Nature
and Use. By Mary and Elizabeth Kirby. (Cassell, Petter, and Galpin.)—This small but comprehensive volume is one of the most perfect compilations we have ever met with. It contains a minute, careful, admirably written descrip- tion of forty-seven distinct kinds of trees, by which the reader is taught the respective characteristics, the native country, and, so to speak, the habits of each. To a great amount of information conveyed in 8. clear, easy, and attractive style, are added many anecdotes, sug- gestions, associations, the history of famous individuals among trees, and the story of the life of trees through all its stages. To lovers of those wonderfully and *variously beautiful natural objects, this book will be a source of profound pleasure and valuable information. The numerous illustrations are very good, especially the "Chestnut Tree of a Hundred Horses" in the forest on Mount Etna, the common ash, the cedar of Lebanon, and the sophora.
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