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Birdcraft : A Field - Book Of Two Hundred Song, Game,

and Water Birds. By Mabel Osgood Wright. Illustrated. (Macmillan and Co.)—New England ornithology gains little in interest from a perusal of the early chapters of this book.......

London Birds And Beasts, By J. T. Tristram Valentine, With

a Preface by F. E. Beddard, F.R.S. (Horace Cox), is a collection of miscellaneous short papers descriptive of animals and insects added to the Zoological Society's collection......

Studies In The Evolution Of Animals. By E. Bonavia, M.d.

With 108 Illustrations. (Archibald Constable and Co.)—The last half of this book should have been omitted. It consists of miscellaneous papers on animal anatomy, and does not......

London Church Staves. By Mary And Charlotte Thorpe....

volume deals with one of the by-ways of Eaglish life. Some of our readers may have seen the preacher in a London church preceded to the pulpit by an official carrying a staff.......

Tax Labour, Which Should Be Left Free. Land Alone Should

be taxed." This is the significant sentence in Mr. Laycock's volume. We shall not attempt to analyse or to refute the arguments by which he arrives at it; but we may remark that......

Arranged Treatise On The Medicinal Value Of Common...

of the garden and of the field. It is a vindication, by reference to chemical analysis and modern medical practice, of the old " herbals ; " a modern "herbal," in fact, with the......

Birds, Beasts, And Fishes Of The Norfolk Broad - Land. By P.

11. Emerson, M.R.C.S. Illustrated. (David Nutt.) —In his preface to this book the author goes out of his way to depreciate "The Birds of Norfolk," the work of the late Mr.......