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THE BRITISH NA.TURALIST. 4 i• Is is a very pleasant work,

embodying a great deal of useful know- . in a mode new as to arrangement, and less likely to repel than • t which we commonly find in books of natural history. It re- • ts the system of inquiry which science delights in, and perhaps re- ' ; -,—and rejects too, the nomenclature which naturalists have • therto employed. It has a system of its own, however; a system ,unded on those successions of feeling which the study of nature on en the most limited scale is calculated to excite; and is likely to ove attractive to that numerous class who have knowledge without .ing willing to expend much labour on its acquisition. The British aturalist has the, advantage besides of an introduction, written with • eat power, and exhibiting a wide range of thought. The author of professes to discover something morbid in the curiosity of the greater • . umber of popular inquirers, and draws illustrations in support of his pinion from quarters where few might think of looking for them.

I * The British Naturalist ; or, Sketches of the more interesting Productions of Britain d the surrounding Sea, in the Scenes which they inhabit, and with relation to the . neral Economy of Nature, and the Wisdom and Power of its Author. In l*Ol. royal imo. with numerous Engravings. London, 1829. Whittaker, Treacher, and Co.