the Bible—which are those here treated—are especially His." He has
made a readable and pleasant little book out of his subject. We are a little surprised when we read that "Adam gave the birds their old Hebrew names." But simplicities of this sort do not interfere with the tender and devout feeling with which Mr. Priestman writes. It is a graceful little thought, for instance, which it would be a pity to spoil by criticism, that the ravens that carried bread and flesh to Elijah "wiped out by their faith- fulness the family disgrace of unfaithfulness to Noah,"—(whose raven did not return to him, having, as our author puts it, "a good time upon the mountains.") The dove, the cuckoo (included on the strength of a not very trustworthy identification), the eagle, the swan (mentioned only in Leviticus), the swallow, the pelican, and the sparrow are mentioned at some length.
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