SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
Indies in this edema does not sucmarlis r preclude tuba test review.] The Diary of a Sportsman Naturalist in India. By E. P. Stebbing. (Lane. 21s. net.)—Mr. Stebbing, well known as a leading authority on wild nature and sport in India, has put together a most interesting collection of reminiscences of big game shooting in various parts of the Peninsula, illustrated with many photographs and sketches. His tiger stories are capital. Once he shot three in a day, but his elephant, angered at the onslaught of one of them, attacked and crushed it so that the tiger's skin was ruined. Mr. Stabbing devotes the second part of his book to a plea for the better protection of the wild anima's, which run the risk of being exterminated by professional poachers. He explains the value and importance to science of game sanctuaries, and discusses the useful but imperfect Indian Wild Birds and Animals Protection Act of 1912: The schedule to this Act, we may observe, includes the egret, but the enforce- ment of the statute is left to the local governments. Mr. Stabbing points out, with regard to egrets, that " there is every danger that the species will become extinct," and that the plumage traders, if they were wise, would urge the countries from which egret plumes are exported " to institute such methods of collection as shall ensure the proper preservation of the species."
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