ESSAYS ON NATURAL HISTORY.
Anal Natural History Essays. By Graham Renshaw, M.B., F.Z.S. Illustrated. (Sherratt and Hughes. 6s. net.)—We are sorry to Gee that Mr. Renshaw describes the third series of essays which he has published as final. The present volume much resembles the two former, which we recommended to our zoological readers t when they appeared. This completes a series of sixty essays dealing with typical examples of the class Mammatia. Mr. Renshaw is a writer who combines zoology and history. He gives tts vivid word-pictures, too, of the natural habitats of the animals he deals with. His subjects in this last volume range from the drill baboon and the Pacific walrus to the Sumatran rhinoceros and the Canadian porcupine. He has collected a deal of scientific, accurate information which cannot fail to be of interest to those whose tastes incline them to study zoology. The illustra- tions are photographs, many of them taken by the author himself; they are useful accompaniments to the text, but not of any exceptional merit or interest. We hope that Mr. Renshaw may reconsider his decision, and that the welcome his essays have teceived may induce him to write more.
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