Mr. Kearton continues to describe in his usual cheery manner
and with his usual excellent photographs the world's fauna. He has recently visited, for the first time, Australia and New Zealand; and his latest book records his literary and photographic impressions of their unique natural. life. / Visit the Antii- podes (Jarrold, 8s. 6d.) is up to the author's standards in -both respects. That is to say, it is a good popular animal-book which all zoo-addicts will enjoy. Such odd creatures as the duck- billed platypus, the lyre-bird, the koala bear, the echidna, the wombat, the emu, the kookaburra and the kangaroo make excellent material for this type of writing, and Mr. Kearton handles it like the expert that he is. In chatty non- technical language he describes the appearance and habits of the animals he was taken to see—he was not exploring on this trip—and never forgets that the human touch is one of the most im- portant possessions of the zoologist who would hold the attention of the general reader.
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