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Annuals And Biennials. By Gertrude Jekyll (country Life....

net.)—This will be an attractive and also a practical book for the amateur gardener in happier times than these, when flowers must give way to vegetables in every suitable......

Boons Or Refeeence.—the Post Office London Directory For...

Directories, 45s.), including the county suburbs in one great volume, has made its appearance with commendable punctuality for the New Year. It has been revised with the usual......

Some Books Of The Week.

[nth* in this column does not necessarily preel.ae subssiusnl regrew.' The Verdict of India. By Sir Mancherjee M. Bhownaggree, K.C.I.E. (Hodder and Stoughton. 2d.)—This eloquent......

Fiction.

THE SPRING SONG.t MORE than half of Mr. Forrest Reid's story is a pure delight : the rest makes for what we are old-fashioned enough to think unnecessary sadness. It is not that......