THE FOLK-LORE OF PLANTS. By T. F. Thiselton Dyer, M.A. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
"The Folk-Lore of Plants" traces the superstitions and fancies connected with plants in fairy-lore, in witchcraft and demonology, in religion, in charms, in medicine, in plant language, etc. The author is an eminent English botanist, and superintendent of the gardens at Kew.
"A handsome and deeply interesting volume.... In all respects the book is excellent. Its arrangement is simple and intelligible, its style bright and alluring; authorities are cited at the foot of the page, and a full index is appended.... To all who seek an introduction to one of the most attractive branches of folk-lore, this delightful volume may be warmly commended."—Notes and Queries.
FLOWERS AND THEIR PEDIGREES. By Grant Allen, author of "Vignettes of Nature," etc. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $1.50.
No writer treats scientific subjects with so much ease and charm of style as Mr. Grant Allen. His sketches in the magazines have well been called fascinating, and the present volume, being a collection of various papers, will fully sustain his reputation as an eminently entertaining and suggestive writer.
"'Flowers and their Pedigrees,' by Grant Allen, with many illustrations, is not merely a description of British wild flowers, but a discussion of why they are, what they are, and how they come to be so; in other words, a scientific study of the migration and transformation of plants, illustrated by the daisy, the strawberry, the cleavers, wheat, the mountain tulip, the cuckoo-pint, and a few others. The study is a delightful one, and the book is fascinating to any one who has either love for flowers or curiosity about them."—Hartford Courant.
THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATION. A Hand-book based upon M. Gustave Ducoudray's "Histoire Sommaire de la Civilisation." Edited by the Rev. J. Verschoyle, M.A. With numerous Illustrations. Large 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.
"With M. Ducoudray's work as a basis, many additions having been made, derived from special writers, Mr. Verschoyle has produced an excellent work, which gives a comprehensive view of early civilization.... As to the world of the past, the volume under notice treats of Egypt, Assyria, the Far East, of Greece and Rome in the most comprehensive manner. It is not the arts alone which are fully illustrated, but the literature, laws, manners, and customs, the beliefs of all these countries are contrasted. If the book gave alone the history of the monuments of the past it would be valuable, but it is its all-around character which renders it so useful. A great many volumes have been produced treating of a past civilization, but we have seen none which in the same space gives such varied information."—The New York Times.
GREAT LEADERS: Historic Portraits from the Great Historians. Selected, with Notes and Brief Biographical Sketches, by G. T. Ferris. With sixteen engraved Portraits. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75.
The Historic Portraits of this work are eighty in number, drawn from the writings of Plutarch, Grote, Gibbon, Curtius, Mommsen, Froude, Hume, Macaulay, Lecky, Green, Thiers, Taine, Prescott, Motley, and other historians. The subjects extend from Themistocles to Wellington.