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The Childs Picture-Book of Wild Animals. (Routledge.)—The pictures here are

not all equally good. The lion, for instance, has not enough of the wild-beast look, is too much like an enormous poodle, without that sinewy appearance about the loins which characterizes the real ahimal. The zebra also seems too plump, and the hymna is not ugly enough. Generally the beasts are in too good case. But some of the pictures, the leopard, for instance, are very good.