19 FEBRUARY 1898, Page 24

Four Hundred Animal Stories. Selected and edited by Robert Cochrane.

(W. and R. Chambers.)—Readers of the Spectator will be grateful to Mr. Cochrane for the care and industry which he has used in collecting these stories. All kinds of animals come within the scope of his observation. Nullum animantium, one might say, enlarging the Terentian maxim, a me aiienum puts.