Plant Life. (Marshall japp and Co.)—Here are fourteen chapters on
various selected subjeots connected with the forms, the functions, and the history of plants. We cannot discover the anther's name, but we may recommend this anonymous writer's interesting and instructive papers. The illustratione, more than one hundred and fifty in number, are judiciously chosen and well rendered. Although the botany of the book is, for the most part, both sound and recent, yet it must not be supposed that we are here presented with a scientific treatise, or with a systematic view of the life-history and the relationships of representative plants. There are several chapters on ferns, mosses, and other cryptogams ; one on the fertilisation of flowers, and another on predatory plants ; while "the folk-lore of plants" and "plants and planets" form the subjects of much amusing gossip.
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