Glimpses into Plant Life. By Mrs. Brightwen. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Though
many of these chapters have already ap- peared in serial form, we cannot withhold a few words as to the excellent treatment of her subject which at once places Mrs. Brightwen above the ordinary level of the text-book writer. She takes her readers to observe the actual phenomena, and in some delightful chapters on tree-stems, buds, leaves, dispersion of fruits and seeds, the young student will probably learn more botany, and not forget it, than when simply cramming details of seed-vessels and innumerable technical details rendered terrible by scientific terms. Mortar is as necessary to the building of a louse as bricks, but most writers on science forget that a mass of little facts requires to be held together by such interesting details as can only be seen out in the open. You must moisten the dry facts else they will not stick in the youthful mind, and Mrs. Brightwen does this to perfection.
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