. Review of reviews and world's work. L. H. Bailey of Cornell University. The first volumein thi series is The Amateurs Practical little manual contains directions for the growing of thecommonest plants about the house and garden. It pages of expert advice by a practical gardener, Mr. C. , of the Horticultural Department at Cornell. Thetopics are arranged in alphabetical order. The book givesanswers to the simplest questions of the amateur gardener. 634 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REl^IEW OF REVIEWS. RECENT FICTION. To Have and to Hold. By Mary Johnston. 12mo,
. Review of reviews and world's work. L. H. Bailey of Cornell University. The first volumein thi series is The Amateurs Practical little manual contains directions for the growing of thecommonest plants about the house and garden. It pages of expert advice by a practical gardener, Mr. C. , of the Horticultural Department at Cornell. Thetopics are arranged in alphabetical order. The book givesanswers to the simplest questions of the amateur gardener. 634 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REl^IEW OF REVIEWS. RECENT FICTION. To Have and to Hold. By Mary Johnston. 12mo, Boston : Houghton, Mifflin & Co. $ Within a couple of months Miss Mary Johnston, the de-mure little authoress from Alabama, has become notedthroughout America for having written the story To Haveand to Hold. The advertisements of the publishers andthe newspaper paragraphers record, in the fashion of theday, that a hundred and sixty-five thousand have been sold,and a week or so later it is more than two hundred MISS MARY JOHNSTON. We are inclined to think that a more important thing thanthese figures is the evidence in the book itself that it shouldsurvive this extraordinary popularity. Througii all its ac-companiment of battle, murder, and sudden deatli, the storyis told with a sweetness of spirit, a tenderness of fancy, apoetical insight that are rare indeed in the novel of adven-ture, and much to be prized. Miss Johnstons imagination has taken hor and us backto the Virginia of 16;iO, when Captahi Jolin Smithhad passedaway, but John Rolfe, husband of Pocaliontas, was stillalive, and is a character in tlie story. Some 3,(1)0 Englishsettlers lived in and around Jamestown. Among them wasthe bluflf, honest bachelor. Captain Ralph Percy, ex-trooperin the Low Countries, and tlie terror of mischievous Indiansin the strange new land. Captain Percy, in his lonely es-tate, throws dice to see whetlier he shall be one of the suit-ors who meet a shipload of damsels from
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