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DENSMORE, HIRAM DELOS. General botany for universities and colleges. il *$2.96 Ginn 580
20–5036
The book is intended for use in universities and colleges and is an outgrowth of the author’s long experience in giving introductory courses in botany to students. “The author’s aim in writing the book has been to furnish the student with clear statements, properly related, of the essential biological facts and principles which should be included in a first course in college botany or plant biology.” (Preface) Emphasis is placed throughout the book on the plant as a “living, active organism, comparable to animals and with similar general physiological life functions.” The contents fall into three parts of which the first is subdivided into the sections: Plants and the environment; Cell structure and anatomy; Physiology; Reproduction. Part 2, dealing with the morphology, life histories, and evolution of the main plant groups, contains: The algæ; The fungi; Bryophytes (Liverworts and mosses); Pteridophytes (ferns, equiseta, and club mosses); Gymnosperms; Angiosperms (dicotyledons). Part 3, Representative families and species of the spring flora, is intended to serve as an introduction to field work and contains: Descriptive terms; Trees, shrubs, and forests; Herbaceous and woody dicotyledons; Monocotyledons; Plant associations. There is an index.
DESCHANEL, PAUL EUGENE LOUIS. Gambetta. *$4.50 (3½c) Dodd
(Eng ed 20–11835)
It was Gambetta, says the author, president of the French republic, “who launched me on the life of politics” and it is from a certain sense of gratitude that the book was written. “I disregarded all panegyrics, all pamphlets, all legends, whether flattering or not: I sought the truth alone—and no homage could be greater.... In this book, only one passion is to be found: the passion for France.” (Foreword) The contents are in four parts: Before the war (1838–1870); The war (1870–1871); The national assembly and the establishment of the republic (1871–1875); The early stages of the parliamentary republic (1876–1882). There is a bibliography and an index.
“This volume is full-blooded and vital in every chapter and in every paragraph. It is no fulsome panegyric, no noisy advertisement, but a balanced and critical, a knowing and a sympathetic portrait. There is here no hushing-up of mistakes and contradictions but also no over-emphasis of them.” C: D. Hazen
+ Am Hist R 25:491 Ap ’20 740w Ath p381 Mr 19 ’20 1000w + Boston Transcript p7 S 25 ’20 740w