Botany for Children. By Rev. G. Ilenslow. (Stanford.)—This simple book
about systematic and descriptive botany is sound and yet attractive. The full-page plates, thirty in number, are characteristic, and represent a judicious selection of plants suitable for teaching purposes. Tho young learner is hero gradually accustomed to the special terms used in botanical descriptions ; lie is taught to dissect and draw plants and parts of plants for himself, and to observe the relations which subsist between them. The functions of plants (or botanical physiology) are not neglected by Mr. G. Ilenslow, who rightly insists upon the interest pertaining to tho teaching of the very important subject of the way in which plants grow, and of their relations to the animal and mineral kingdoms of nature. A work like the present must, iri the case of young children, be largely sup- plemented by the knowledge, the skill, and the enthusiasm of the teacher, but we know of no book more suitable for practical instruc- tion in elementary botany than the little volume before us.
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