e a
true lover she has gone far and wide in her search for old plants and
old plant lore. We agree with Mrs. Foster that the most perfect
herbaceous border is one that has an old wall behind it. Blue larkspurs
and white lilies, roses, phloxes, and evening primroses never look so
well as when they are seen against a background of wall, mellowed
with age and clothed with its beautiful garment of wall-growing
seedlings. . . . Mrs. Foster's book, too, is most useful in its lists of
flowers that bloomed in the days of Chaucer and Shakespeare. She also
devotes one chapter entirely to quotations from old poets on gardens and
all the delights that spring from them. If it helps her readers to know
for themselves those authors, who found among the flowers of the garden
apt similes of all that is truest in human nature, she will have added a
very substantial addition to the pleasure already enjoyed by those who
love gardens, but yet are unfamiliar with the pages of the poets who
knew well how to speak their praises."--_Spectator._

"A pleasant book."--_Athenaeum._

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=IN THE COUNTRY:= Essays by the Rev. M. G. WATKINS, M.A.

Contents.

Devon Lanes and their Associations--At the Sea Side--Among the
Heather--Up Glenroy--In Assynt--Into Ballad Land--On the Ottery East
Hill--Among the Sea Birds--From the heart of the Wolds--Sunshine at the
Land's End--Birds and Bird Lovers--Etc.

_THIRD EDITION. Crown 8vo, with Autotype portrait and twelve full-page
Illustrations engraved by Edmund Evans. Cloth, top edge gilt. Price 7s.
6d._

=MY LIFE AS AN ANGLER.= By WILLIAM HENDERSON, Author of "The Folk-lore
of the Northern Counties."

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6d._

=THE CHRONICLE OF "THE COMPLEAT ANGLER,"= of ISAAK WALTON and CHARLES
COTTON: being a bibliographical record of its various editions and
mutations. By THOMAS WESTWOOD and THOMAS SATCHELL.

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=POEMS.= By MAY PROBYN.

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=A BALLAD OF THE ROAD AND OTHER POEMS.= By MAY PROBYN.

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=GODS, SAINTS, AND MEN.= By EUGENE LEE-HAMILTON. With ten full-page
Illustrations designed by Enrico Mazzanti.

"Readers will find him, as before, a Browning without his
obscurity."--_Graphic._

"Quaint, mediaeval legends and traditions, most of which have a
strong savour of the supernat