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Thonger, Charles. Book of garden design. (Handbooks of practical gardening, v. 25.) [*]$1. Lane.
“The author describes somewhat at length the different schools of garden designs.... Advocates first a general spirit of simplicity, avoiding both complexity and eccentricity. Then proceeds with suggestions for selecting or adapting a site, and for laying out drives and paths.... The kitchen-garden and orchard come within this scheme.... The last four chapters are devoted to perennials, aquatic plants, trees, shrubs, and hardy climbers, and include some suggestive lists for practical gardeners.”—Dial.
“Altogether, the little book is quite likely to be useful to those who take their gardening in earnest.” Edith Granger.
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“The happier few who have the delightful task before them of making a garden—delightful, but not without trouble—will meet here with everything that they want.”
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Thorndike, Edward L. Elements of psychology. [*]$1.50. A. G. Seiler, N. Y.
Prof. James says that this book “is a laboratory manual of the most energetic and continuous kind.” Further, “I defy any teacher or student to go through this book as it is written, and not to carry away an absolutely firsthand acquaintance with the workings of the human mind, and with the realities as distinguished from the pedantries and artificialities of psychology.” Intense concreteness is the watchword thruout the discussion, which falls into three parts; Descriptive psychology, The psychological basis of mental life: physiological psychology, and Dynamic psychology.
“Brings as its distinctive contribution the emphasis upon the practical reaction which the student is induced to make to the principles set before him. The excellence and completeness of the chapters on the nervous system deserve special commendation.”