THE LIBRARY OF ENTERTAINING KNOWLEDGE.*
PART I. TIIE ME.NAGERIES.
Tins is another popular library, the plan of which is equally worthy of our approbation with the Library of the Family ; and we are far better satisfied with the execution as displayed in this first part of the Anecdotes of Animals. The compiler of them has shown great taste and extensive reading : the mixture of scientific information is adroitly infused : the book is one to be devoured by youth, and the memory of it will remain in the mind perhaps long after the source is forgotten. The wood-cuts are excellent. We recommend to all lovers of cats the well-fed ana complacent pussy winch forms the principal figure in the plate of A UST I N'S most curious ambulant menagerie, in which so many animals of opposite and inimical habits are taught to live in harmony with one another—the cat, the mouse, the owl, the sparrow, the dove, the hawk, &c. In brief, the subject of this first part is the most interesting of all branches of natural knowledge ; and it is treated of in a manner fully equal to the subject
* London, 1e29. Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
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