7 JULY 1888, Page 23

The July number of Good Words is an excellent one.

Mr. Dixon's series of essays, "Among the Birds," if not quite up to

the standard of the late Richard Jefferies or the living Mr.

Burroughs, will bear reading twice. In his essay on Henry David Thoreau, Mr. Underwood writes sensibly and moderately.

He seems quite to take the measure of a genuine though perverse genius. In "The Robbers of the Rockies," Dr. Cameron Lees, of Edinburgh, gives a startling experience of his own, which seems to prove, however, that these robbers are fools as well as scoundrels.