15 FEBRUARY 1890, Page 23

CURRENT LITERATURE.

Idylls of the Field. By Francis A. Knight. (Elliot Stock.)— The word " field " must be taken as used in an extended sense. It includes marsh and mountain and forest, and the haunts of birds of the land and the sea. There is a charming chapter which, under the title of "Castles in the Air," tells us about the humours of a rookery ; then a winter landscape in the marshes ; and then an account of the sight which only the dweller in the real country can see, the varied traces of life that one sees in the morning snow. But whether one lives in country or town, this is a very delightful little book.