A NOVELIST ON TRAPS.
Allusive but very powerful protests against the trapping of rabbits are to be fqund in a recent novel that has more of the true atmosphere of the country, especially the West 'Country, than any book published for years : The Pathway, by Henry Williamson. " `They trap ten thousand every year on the Burrows. . . . Ten thousand screams in the darkness every year. I hear them sometimes,' she spoke very gently. ' The story of the Burrows is the story of all the world,' he said, as they walked on." The reference is not fictional, though in fiction. It is written by a man who knows all there is to know about the traffic in rabbits on the North Devon coast, and is in a general way one of the best field naturalists in the country ; and has not worn the label of a professional humanitarian.
W. BEACH THOMAS.
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