7 FEBRUARY 1931, Page 28

Some Books of the Week

I, animals must be caught it is as well that the work should be done by such men as Frank Buck, the author, with Edward Anthony, of a volunie of reminiscences entitled Bring 'Em Back Alive (Gollancz, 16s.). But that some cruelty is inseparable from the business is shown by constant references throughout the book to the methods of native trappers, the dilliculties of transport, and, in particular, by the description (page 210) of the way crocodiles are caught and (pages 221 et seq.) of the death of three proboscis monkeys in captivity, That the book is written by a man who, according to his light, loves and is thoroughly humane towards animals, makes its _record of perpetual and inevitable cruelty the more painfully impressive.