Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British Birds. By Henry
Seebohm. Edited by R. Bowdler-Sharpe, LL.D. (Pawson and Brailsford, Sheffield.)—This book appears substantially as it was Left by the author, who died, one of the many victims of influenza, on November 25th, 1895. He was a steel manufacturer at Sheffield, his leisure, which success in his occupation enabled him to take in ample measure, being given to the study of birds. In 1875 he made an expedition to the Petehora River in North-East Russia. Two years afterwards he went as far as the Yenesei in Siberia. He made many voyages of minor importance, always with the same object in view. This handsome volume is quite worthy of the author, who was as liberal in giving to the world the results of his labours as he was indefatigable in obtaining them.
In Messrs. G. Bell and Sons' "Cathedral Series," edited by Messrs. Gleason White and E. F. Strange, we have The Cathedral Church of Chester, by Charles Hialt, a volume which has evidently been put together with much care, and which describes the present condition of the Cathedral with much minuteness. It is, we must say, difficult to !understand the writer's attitude with regard to restoration. "At Chester, looking to the amazingly rotten character of the stone, those who had charge of the restoration doubtless did the best because the only thing in their power." This seems plain enough, but the general impression left by the passage (pp. 23-4) is that this "only thing" would have been better left undone.
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