This admirable little volume, the outgrowth of the author’s ripe experience in teaching and in botanizing, contains a popular and interesting account of Rhode Island wild flowers as distributed throughout the State. The favorite collecting grounds are fully described, thus forming a botanical guide to Rhode Island. In writing this volume Professor Bailey has had in mind the needs of the nature lover, and has discarded technical terms as far as possible, adapting the work to the amateur as well as the botanist. It should be in the hands of every lover of woodland and meadow. Forwarded postpaid to any address upon receipt of price by the publishers. ------------------------------------ Tax Lists of the Town of Providence During the Administration of Sir Edmund Andros and his Council, 1686-1689. Compiled by EDWARD FIELD, A.B., _Member of the Rhode Island Historical Society, and one of the Record Commissioners of the City of Providence_. Cloth. Octavo. 60 pp. $1.00, net. ------- The “Tax Lists of the Town of Providence” is a compilation of original documents relating to taxation during the Administration of =Sir Edmund Andros and his Council, 1686-1689=. It comprises copies of warrants issued by order of the Council for the assessment and collection of taxes, the tax lists or rate bills prepared pursuant to these warrants, the returns made by the townsmen of their ratable property, and the Tax Laws enacted by Andros and his Council. All of these, with the exception of the laws, are here printed for the first time. Among the rate bills is the list of polls for 1688, which contains the _names of all males sixteen years of age and upwards living in Providence in August of that year_; practically a census of the town. For the genealogist and historian this volume contains material of the greatest value on account of the great number of names which these lists contain, besides showing the amount of the tax assessment in each case. The returns of ratable property form a study by themselves, for they tell in the quaint language of the colonists what they possess, and therefore shed much light on the condition of the times. For a study of this episode in New England Colonial History this work is invaluable. The index of all names contained in the lists and text is a feature of this work. The edition is limited to =two hundred and fifty= numbered copies. Sent postpaid to any address on receipt of one dollar. ------------------------------------ Early Rhode Island Houses. An Historical and Architectural Study by NORMAN M. ISHAM, Instructor in Architecture, Brown University, and ALBERT F. BROWN, Architect. Illustrated with a map and over fifty full-page plates. $3.50, net.