An Introduction to Botany

AMONG the numerous works professing to guide the elementary student through the mazes of botanical science, this may claim several advantages, inasmuch as the greater part of the book is based on a sound conception of the method best suited, for the purpose of training the beginner to observe and think for himself. It is the method which Huxley worked so hard to introduce into this country many years ago, namely, that of encouraging the student to investigate first, and then telling him more about the things he has seen, keeping the opinions and records of others in the background until he has acquired a stock of his own knowledge to work upon.An Introduction to Botany.By W. C. Stevens. Pp. 428; with preface and index and key, 121 pp. and index. (New York and London: D. C. Heath and Co., 1903.) Price 6s.