TALES OF ANIMALS.
Tars is likely to prove a very favourite book with children: the anecdotes are tolerably well selected, and the whole well calculated to satisfy the curiosity of that age so greedy of new facts and so unfastidious as to their exactness. The descriptions in many instances had better have been left to the wood-cuts, which abound: the boy would from them not unfrequently get more accurate notions than from the letterpress. Would any body that had never seen the animal described before, ever recognize it by the account of its external appearance?
"The — equals the horse in size, though he is not quite so tall : his form is more bulky, and he is stronger made about the neck and head."
This is—a Bull, good reader.
The "Insect" portion, we may observe by the way, is far too meagre : but, of course, every thing cannot be done in one book : nevertheless, we think that something of Lions and Tigers might have been sacrificed to the charming and improving descriptions of the curious ways of the Insect world. Entomological studies are more beneficial in their effects on the mind than tales of blood and violence, to which we are by nature and education far too prone.
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