Review of reviews and world's work . ll of which weresaved as specimens, there were less than ,^ bag was 216, including three sableantelope, killed on the coast—and they weregone eleven months. Mr. Roosevelt says:We did not kill a tenth or a hundredth partof what we might have killed had we beenwilling. There are half a dozen appendices in thebook; one of thanks to his helpers, four de-voted to natural history subjects, and one toa list of the famous Pigskin Library and anexplanation of his reason for taking certainbooks. This brief chapter is interesting fromthe personal viewpoint.
Review of reviews and world's work . ll of which weresaved as specimens, there were less than ,^ bag was 216, including three sableantelope, killed on the coast—and they weregone eleven months. Mr. Roosevelt says:We did not kill a tenth or a hundredth partof what we might have killed had we beenwilling. There are half a dozen appendices in thebook; one of thanks to his helpers, four de-voted to natural history subjects, and one toa list of the famous Pigskin Library and anexplanation of his reason for taking certainbooks. This brief chapter is interesting fromthe personal viewpoint. Appendix E, whichis much longer, is a discussion of the vexedquestion of protective coloration, and anargument against Mr. Abbot H. Thayerstheory, as set forth in his interesting book,drawn from Mr. Roosevelts observations onAfrican game. Appendices C and I) arenatural history notes from those accomplishednaturalists l>r. Mearns and Mr. Loring. The illustrations of the volume are of greatinterest and beauty. The photographs are. « IHE IIR>r BILL ELEPHANT A CARTOOX LIFE OF ROOSEVELT 461 chiefly made by Kermit Roosevelt, though pose it a mere hunting story, but it is much there are some by his father and a number by more than that. The hunting tales are in- Edmund Heller and J. Alden Loring and teresting and exciting, but they are only a several fine and spirited pictures by Philip part. From the book may be learned much R. Goodwin, drawn from photographs and natural history hardly to be found in other descriptions. There is a map of the routes works, not a little ethnology, excellent lessons followed by the expedition from Mombasa to in game protection, and the very latest in- Lakes Victoria and Albert and down the formation as to the progress that civilization White Xile to Fashoda. All these add to the is making in Eastern and Central Africa, interest of the work. made more interesting by suggestive com- The title of the volume is so far misleading parisons of that ne
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