Nature . in that high artistic merit which Mr. Knightsdrawings possess. The coloured plates by E. Buck-nall. L. Speed, and Charles Whymper are of a dif-ferent order. E. Bucknalls cave-men carving onbones by firelight (p. 200), the Neolithic Farmstead (p. 214), the landscape in the Carboniferous period(p. 35), or his excellent conception of Sivatherium, ahuge horned Pliocene giraffe, with a dappled hide likeits long-necked modern descendant are most admir-able. Lancelot Speeds primitive man and woman,although a clean shaven and washed, and intellectuallooking couple, make a very good frontispie
Nature . in that high artistic merit which Mr. Knightsdrawings possess. The coloured plates by E. Buck-nall. L. Speed, and Charles Whymper are of a dif-ferent order. E. Bucknalls cave-men carving onbones by firelight (p. 200), the Neolithic Farmstead (p. 214), the landscape in the Carboniferous period(p. 35), or his excellent conception of Sivatherium, ahuge horned Pliocene giraffe, with a dappled hide likeits long-necked modern descendant are most admir-able. Lancelot Speeds primitive man and woman,although a clean shaven and washed, and intellectuallooking couple, make a very good frontispiece. HisDevonian, Triassic, and Eocene landscapes are alsoexcellent and original. There is much merit andability displayed in Chas. Whympers Jurassic land-cape with pterodactyls and a gavial hunting the•luck-billed Ornithorhynchus, but we do not rememberthis monotreme occurring in any Jurassic rocks. Theother novelties afforded by the book illustrations arefrom the facile pencil of Alice Woodward, as the. NO. 1893, VOL. 73] Jurassic period (p. 62), with its ammonites and crus-taceans; the restoration of Diplodocus carnegiei(p. 72); the Cretaceous sea-beasts (p. S3); Polacanthus,a reptile from the Isle of Wight reconstructed by Baron Nopcsa (p. 88); restorations of variousancestral forms of elephants lately unearthed in Egypt ;Mceritherium (p. 114); Paljeomastodon (p. 114); andTetrabelodon (p. 125); most remarkable of all thoselati I3 come from trie land of the Sphinx is the Arsinoi-therium (p. 120), a weird-looking herbivor, with quad-ricorn defences on its frontal bones and a full denti-tion of 44 teeth in its jaws—not, however, in the ances-tral line of elephants, nor perhaps of any livinggroup, but stii generis. This, and the ancestral formsof elephants, are about to be published by the Trusteesof the British Museum, as a monograph on the fossilmammalia, &c, from the Favum, Egypt, prepared bvDr. C. W. Andrews. The only other extremely novel restoration is that
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