FOR winter evenings when that holiday by the sea is
another memory Mr. Vevers's illustrated volume is recommended to all who- love to wander along the coasts peering at seaweed, anemones, limpets and jellyfish. Next summer, fortified by Mr. Vevers's entrancing know- ledge, the wandering need not be aimless or desultory. The seaweed can be classified, the fishes distinguished, the worms and squirts and sponges known most intimately. The strange object lodged for a fortnight in the tooth- glass by a yoUnger member of the family can be named, not merely dismissed (as a last re- sort) as a barnacle. Pleasantly illustrated, The British Seashore has a very personal charm, reviving as it does the memory of half-• forgotten summers, early morning and late evening strolls on the.beach. This focus on sea- shore life is full of unexpectedly eccentric ex- amples of animal and plant behaviour.
KAY DICK
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