The Biography of a Silver Foal. By Ernest Thompson Seton.
(A. Constable and Co. 5s. net.)—Mr. Seton tolls one of his stories of woodland life with all his accustomed skill and sympathy. We are introduced at the beginning of the book to a litter of fox cubs at play—a very pretty sight, but not often soon—and we follow the career of the sprightliest cub, a dark little chap with a black band across his eyes. Those biographies commonly end in tragedy. We come into contact with these creatures of the wild only when we kill them. Mr. Seton contrives to avoid thin catastrophe. The story of the last run, when a great fox hunt had been started to avenge misdeeds of which our hero had not been guilty, is quite admirable. Usually our sympathies are found to be with man and man's servant, the dog, but in this case wo cannot help feeling glad that 'Domino '—this is the silver fox's name—is left in possession.
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