Plants and Their Children

This book comes to perform much the same office with younger children that Miss Morley's "Flowers and their Friends," and Kate Brown's "The Plant Baby and Its Friends," do for pupils who are more advanced. The author of "A Plant Baby" had therefore special difficulties, but they are well met. The language of the book is commendably simple, though the simplicity is not maintained to the avoidance of a few technical terms which, as experience verifies, are readily used and understood by child...