“She has a great gift for telling stories.... There is no attempt at formal or systematic treatment; the author puts down her experiences and reflections, just as they occur to her, in an easy, natural way. A little overstatement does not appreciably detract from the value of her charming and enlightening book.”

+ −Lond. Times. 6: 99. Mr. 29, ’07. 1330w.

“The mere data contained in this work is wonderful. The method of chatty and sympathetic treatment is even more to be admired.”

+N. Y. Times. 12: 245. Ap. 13, ’07. 470w.

“[One] will find Miss Loane’s womanly common-sense and robust humour an admirable corrective to the pleas for sapping the strength of the nation which are the evil fashion of the hour.”

+Spec. 98: 281. F. 23, ’07. 1730w.

Lock, Robert Heath. Recent progress in the study of variation, heredity, and evolution. *$2. Dutton.

7–12650.

“The book begins with an introduction in which are briefly discussed: Linnaean species, Jordan’s species, variation, mutation, discontinuity of species, the work of Mendel and evolution theories. Later chapters are largely given to a fuller discussion of the topics here introduced. The first half of the book is rather elementary.... Natural selection, evidences of evolution and ‘biometry’ are treated in detail.”—Science.