STUDIES IN NATURE AND COUNTRY LIFE.
Studies in Nature and Country Life. By Catherine and W. C. D. Whetham. (Macmillan and Bowes, Cambridge. 2s. 6d. net.)—This is a small but very admirable book, to be used by the intelligent parent or teacher, directly or indirectly, or to be left accessible to the inquiring mind. Although the first chapter may seem too heavy to be attacked by youth so long as anything else remains to be read, any properly constituted child will take an interest in the contents of the book. It teaches him that he is an observer and tells him what to look at, and it will prove a most welcome refuge to many a child from the stupidity of the male and the unscientific attitude of the female parent. Here, at least, is some one who knows where the weather comes from and what we may expect in normal seasons, what the Times map means, and why the dots are so often put in circles on it, and the like points on which "grown-ups" evade the eager questioner. The first part deals with earth, air, water, heat, sound, light, colour, and weather ; the second with names, roads, springs, streams, soil, fields, hedgerows, trees and woods, and villages. Any child who can take its blow- ledge and its story separately will be charmed with the volume; but in the next edition the first chapter should be turned into a preface intended for the parent, which may secure its reading by the child.
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