Woodland, Field, and Shore. By Oliver G. Pike. (R.T.S. 5s.)—Mr.
Pike's book is chiefly about birds and butterflies, acids very pretty book it is. It is not the less interesting because some of the localities which are described in it are by no means remote. When a writer professes to treat of "Accessible Field Sports," and, by way of example, suggests spring trout-fishing in Nova Scotia, one is a little annoyed ; but Mr. Pike invites us to come with him to a "Middlesex brook," a "Middlesex wood," and a "suburban orchard." He wisely keeps the secret of the wood and brook ; but such things are, and of a kind which one would hardly believe, within a very short distance of this great city. Evidently our author is a patient and careful observer of Nature, and has seen many curious things revealed only to those who are so qualified ; evidently also he knows how to describe what he sees.
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