Church review . thought-less coquetry of Cleo. Ballard, anAmerican girl, inspires a disastrousiove in the heart of a serious, deep-hearted, Japanese gentleman. Mis- Nume would not be called Field, Forest and Wayside Flowers. By Maud Going. 411 pages, 8 vo. New York: The Baker & Taylor Company. Price $ As Maud Going, is a recognizedauthority on plant life, and botany ingeneral, it is hardly necessary in re-viewing the present volume to do morethan give a brief description of its pur-pose. We cannot do that any better thanby quoting from the authors chapters are so arranged as t
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