Step, Edward. Wild flowers month by month. 2v. *$4.50. Warne.
“Mr. Step has a deep knowledge of British plants, and this work is full of interesting and instructive details as to how, when and where they grow.... The author has not attempted (and wisely we think in a book of this description which is intended for the general reader rather than the botanist) anything like a full enumeration of the flora of the British Isles.... We find that mention is made of some five hundred different plants only.... The book deals chiefly with plants whose flowers are conspicuous, as distinct from those with inconspicuous blossoms.... One of the most interesting classes, and the most fully described, is that of the British orchids.” (Acad.) The volumes are profusely illustrated from photographs.
“While we have nothing but praise for the accurate and interesting descriptions and entertaining particulars of the plants mentioned it is impossible to say the same of the illustrations.”
+ – Acad. 69: 1196. N. 18, ’05. 1010w. (Review of v. 1 and 2.) + Ath. 1905, 2: 435. S. 30. 150w. (Review of v. 2.)
“The traveler, as well as the botanist, will welcome [it.]”
+ N. Y. Times. 11: 406. Je. 23, 06. (Review of v. 1 and 2.)
“A book which contains much rather commonplace descriptive writing, with a slightly professorial style and rather strained humorous sallies.”
+ – Spec. 95: 471. S. 30, ’05. 340w. (Review of v. 1.)
Stephen, Leslie. Hobbes. **75c. Macmillan.