“This is a very pleasing book.”
| + + | Spec. 94: 683. My. 6, ‘05. 180w. |
Eastman, Helen. New England ferns and their common allies; an easy method of determining the species. [*]$1.25. Houghton.
“It is a merit of this book that it includes ... the lycopodiums and equisetums, club-mosses and horse-tails. Each plant is provided with a picture, from the press ... and even the unusual varieties and hybrids are included.... The descriptions are good and brief.”—Ind.
“We wish the author had not given us so many fancy English names that have no authority. But it is a good book, and we are particularly glad for the horse-tails and club-mosses.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 268. F. 2, ‘05. 320w. |
Eccles, Robert Gibson. Food preservatives, their advantages and proper use; the practical versus the theoretical side of the pure food problem; with an introd. by E. W. Duckwall. $1; pa. 50c. Van Nostrand.
A volume which sets forth the pure food problem as it is found in practice and theory. “A valuable part of the book is that devoted to showing how little evidence there is for the assumption, commonly made even by chemists, that the process of fermentation is so similar to that of digestion that whatever prevents the one must impair the other.” (Ind.)
“It contains much special pleading, but this is justified by the excessive amount of special pleading that has been done, both in and out of court, against the use of preservatives.”
| + + — | Ind. 58: 960. Ap. 27, ‘05. 430w. |