12 SEPTEMBER 1925, Page 27

BENJAMIN FAWCETT : Colour Printer and Engraver. By M. C.

F. Morris, B.C.L. (Oxford University Press. 5s.)

Ma. Moms is well qualified to write the life of Benjamin Fawcett, whose illustrations to British Birds and many other books enjoyed a popular vogue in the last century. Mr. Morris is himself a naturalist, while his father, having been vicar of a

neighbouring parish to Driffield, in Yorkshire, where to the end Fawcett carried on his work, was closely asssociated with the famous colour printer in many of his enterprises. Mr. Morris tells the story of Fawcett's life pleasantly and succinctly, and, in writing of his process, defends him against the wide- spread misconception that he was an imitator of George Baxter. '