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The Abbot's Farm. By H. Tanner. (Macmillan end Co.)—Quite worth

reading, if only as an instructive, and interesting story of farm work and farm troubles. Perhaps farmers and agricultural chemists will discover not a few" fads" and fancies in these pages, but the value of the book, even where it announces old facts as novelties and new theories as practically realised truths, is not to be gaiusaid. To those who know the recent history of agricultural education in this country, the numerous references to agricultural colleges and agricultural examinations in Mr. Tanner's book will not appear tsdious.