17 NOVEMBER 1906, Page 10

Beery Boy's Book of Natural History. By Percival Westell. (R.T.S.

3s. 6d.)—We scarcely need to do more than describe this volume if we would commend it to our readers. In the first place, it comes praised by Lord Avebury. Then the author has put together a great amount of instructive and curious matter gathered from his own experience and from the writings of others ; and the Rev. S. N. Sedgwick has col- laborated by contributing a number of photographs and by adding two chapters of directions as to the use of photographic processes. The things treated of are classified and in a way catalogued. We have " Mammals," " Birds," " Reptiles, Amphibians, &c.," " Butterflies, &e.," " Wild Flowers," and " On the Farm."