16 APRIL 1864, Page 21

Homes without Hands. By the Rev. J. G. Wood, M.A.,

F .L.S. (Longman and Co.)—There are few branches of natural history more

curious than that which treats of the artificial habitations of animals, and no one is more competent to deal with the subject than Mr. Wood. Commencing with the burrow, or rather fortress, of the common mole, the burrows of mammalia, of birds, reptiles, invertebrates, and molluscs are successively reviewed in the first three numbers in a clear and interesting style. And the descriptions are further sided by capital wood-engravings, which are, perhaps, more attractive than even the letter-press itself.