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Practical School Gardening. By Percy Elford, M.A., and Samuel Heaton.

(The Clarendon Press. 2s. net.)—We have no doubt of the valuable character of this volume ; it is the work of experts, and it is full of useful information from end to end. Nor do we object to the enthusiasm of the writers for their subject. Still, • we feel-it a duty to assert, not for the first time, that education must be in the first place literary.