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Those who heard Henry Beston at the Garden Club meeting last month will be interested in the review appearing in the New York Herald Tribune Books which reads: "One need not be an herb gardening enthusiast to find in this small volume a pleasure and a sense of peace too seldom discovered in books of horticultural intent. A few pages and one settles deeper into one's chair, shifts the light to a more convenient angle, for here is a rare blend of fancy, fact, of philosophy and clear humanness that cannot be escaped. Let one short quotation serve as the key; for the rest, you should be your own discoverer: 'A plant of Balm, lifted from the June earth with its beard of delicate roots, a bush of Thyme in flower in the hot sun. Angelica rising in Gothic reeds where the rich and level earth long stores its rain, each of these is still in use, a potency, and a name. A garden of herbs is a garden of things loved for themselves in their wholeness