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A History Of Gardening In England.* While Wars And Rumours

of war turned the thought of all to the turmoil of life, our gardens slept in the peaceful winter night which their lovers welcome as the prelude to the " joys of spring." In......

Current Literature.

Traces of Past and Present. By the Rev. R. Staveley. (W. McGee, Dublin.)—This is a book of anecdotes, in a way entertain- ing, but hardly as funny as we should expect a......