3 NOVEMBER 1894, Page 10

A Night in the Woods, and other Tales and Sketches.

By James Weston. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—These "tales and sketches" are slight, but sufficiently pleasing and well written. "Briggs Minor's Zoo" is a gcod specimen of them, the story of the collection made by an enthusiastic young naturalist under circumstances not altogether favourable. The illustrations are much above the common average of merit. The frontispiece, "The Bassoon Player," is particularly good.