iyorant's Eym."—By E. V. Lucas. London: Methuen & Tee, Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh It is somewhat of a surprise at! the present day to pick up a new book which does not record in its pages one single crime or even peccadillo, which docs not even present an abstruse sox problem or try to whet the appetite of the reader with the language of the gutter or with crude pictures of war, pestilence and famine. Mr. Clu here is contented to give an going chronicle of pleasant, though (¢-Shnghal. conditions yarx{Pethaps rather odd, people placidly amazingly and plants which thrive one place, in another obstinately refuse to show so much as a bud. Still, by following Mrs. Cornfoot directions on id be plants, he well emphasizes, on thought the lay out and on a carefully designed colour scheme. Altogether 'A most useful, practical book, the attractiveness of which is much ye verses to which
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