30 MARCH 1895, Page 25

Travels in a Tree Top. By Charles Conrad Abbott, D.D.

(Mathews and Lane.)—A delightful volume this of Nature sketches. Dr. Abbott writes about New England woods and streams, scenes neither quite familiar nor quite strange to us who know the same things in the old country. The severer winter makes some difference, as, for instance, in the number of birds that migrate there, but are stationary here ; and there are, of course, other differences in both fauna and flora ; nevertheless, we feel, in a way, at home, when Dr. Abbott takes us on one of his delightful wintsr or summer excursions. This is a book which we cannot recommend too highly.