By Leroy L. Lamborn. Published by the author, Alliance, Ohio.

The immense importance of the carnation in a commercial aspect, aside from the general love which people have for its cultivation, makes it well worthy of a special treatise. We may say, therefore, that the work is a very timely one. It is the work of a thoroughly practical cultivator, and claims to be that and nothing more. It has the usual defects of that class of works, but ranks fully with the best of them. We cannot say this much of the style which makes a paragraph of nearly every sentence. It becomes exceedingly difficult to keep the leading thought in view until the author has done with it, - or indeed to know when he has done with it, and is introducing another one.

We may here say that one of the great defects of modern writing is, a surprising ignorance of the principles of punctuation. While we are now reflecting on profuse paragraphing, we cannot but remember the numbers of instances that come before us of distinct paragraphs jumbled into one.