Nature . eor less well-known animals, and recounts theirordinary everyday life, so far as it can be interpreted,.Mr. English giving this for the most part in whatare supposed to be the creatures own words, whilethe American author mingles verbal with descriptivenarrative. Both works are, no doubt, excellent intheir own particular way; and, for the sake of authorsand publishers alike, we trust that a sufficient numberof readers exist to whom this style of writing appealswith infinitely greater force than it does to such we may commend each of the two works,for, in the respective su
Nature . eor less well-known animals, and recounts theirordinary everyday life, so far as it can be interpreted,.Mr. English giving this for the most part in whatare supposed to be the creatures own words, whilethe American author mingles verbal with descriptivenarrative. Both works are, no doubt, excellent intheir own particular way; and, for the sake of authorsand publishers alike, we trust that a sufficient numberof readers exist to whom this style of writing appealswith infinitely greater force than it does to such we may commend each of the two works,for, in the respective subjects, we find little to choosebetween them. Mr. English, very appropriately, confines himselfto British animals (including mammals, birds, fishes,insects, &c); and although we cannot congratulatehim on the title he has selected for his volume, weare pleased to be able to record our high appreciationof his skill as a photographer, and of the excellentmanner in which his pictures have been of north-westernW. N. Shaw. TWO BOOKS, ON ANIMAL N the second of these two works the author ex--1 presses the opinion that the first question whichwill be asked by the reader is whether the variousanecdotes are strictly true. The question thatpresents itself to our mind is whether such bookswill be read at all, and if so by whom? The pro-fessional naturalist, we dare venture to say, willhave nothing to do with them ; they are not apparentlyintended for children, and for our own part we con-fess that to read them for either pleasure or instruc-tion is about the last thing we should think of are what may be called animal novels, andthereby differ to a considerable extent from the old-fashioned animal biographies, under which head- I [easties Courage>D. English. Pp. viii+i1905.) Price net. Northern Trail-, ; some Studies of Animal Life in the FaW. J. Lone Pp. + 390 ; illustrated. (Boston, ,Ginn and Co.). Price 7s. td. no. 1886, vol. ?]$] Cour
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