Fancy Pigeons. By J. C. Lyell. (The Bazaar Office.)—Mr. Lyell's
book is fully up to the statement of the diffuse title we have abbrevi- ated. Considering what has been done in the study of variation among pigeons, we were surprised to find that more attention was not given to it in the chapter devoted to the origin of fancy pigeons. But it is very clear that our author's object is not scientific, but what by an inaccurate antithesis is commonly called practical. And this aim he has assuredly reached. All the different varieties of pigeons are described and illustrated. Their breeding, housing, care in health and sickness, and colouring, are each and all treated with
loving particularity. Our particular favourites, tumblers and pouters, have, we are glad to observe, full notice given them. We briefly advise all fanciers, schoolboys or adults, in town or country, to get Mr. Lyell's book, and lay to heart his instructions.
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