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The Zoological Gardens : a Hand - Book for Visiters. This slender

pocket volume of some hundred pages, is, like the pre- ceding publication, rather intended to titillate than teach. Pro. fusely enriched with spirited and frequently characteristic cuts of the principal specimens in the Zoological Gardens, it appends to each a description of their haunts, of their natural character, or or some anecdotes of their behaviour when in captivity,—pleasant to read, though displaying no novelty, and useful for its intended purpose, that of telling something about the creature before them to those who may visit the Gardens or any other collection of wild beasts.