20 FEBRUARY 1904, Page 25

Eton Nature Study. By Mathew Davenport Hill and Wilfrid Mark

Webb. Part I. (Duckworth and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—It would take us too long to describe the methods employed in this volume. It mild suffice to remark that they seem well calculated to exer- cise powers of observation in the learner. The subjects belong to botany and zoology, and there are studies in the observation of the sun, shadows, &c. It is strange how common ignorance on this last subject is even among men who ought to know. The writer of this notice once asked a. fisherman at Slapton Lee where the sun set at midwinter, and was told, "Just about there," the man pointing to the sunset of an August evening.