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Polled And Aytoun. By Rosaline Masson. (oliphant,...

is. 6d.)—It is not surprising that the author of this double-barrelled biography, which is the latest addition to the "Famous Scots" series of monographs, should have found it......

Drift From Longshore. By " A Son Of The Marshes." Edited

by J. A. Owen. (Hutchinson and Co. Gs.) — Another volume from the pen of this writer scarcely needs our recommendation ; neither does it call for a lengthy or minute criticism.......

Wild Life At Home : How To Study And Photograph

it. By R. Kearton, F.Z.S. (Cassell and Co. 6s.)—Mr. Kearton and his brother are energetic field.wituralists, who deserve congratula- tion for the ingenuity and patience they......

A Sketch-book Of British Birds. By R. Bowdler Sharpe. With

Coloured Illustrations by A. F. and C. Lydon. (S.P.C.K. 14s.) —The supply of books on British birds seems inexhaustible, and we can only hope that there is a corresponding......

Country Books.

A Cotswold Village ; or, Country Life and Pursuits in Gloucester- shire. By J. Arthur Gibbs. (J. Murray. 10s. 6d.)—We do not know how best to describe this delightful book about......

Bird Studies. By William E. D. Scott. (g. P. Patnam's

Sons. 21s.)—This is a complete and, in some respects, an excellent work on the land-birds of Eastern North America. Mr. Scott knows his subject well, and his accounts of the......