2 DECEMBER 1922, Page 26

Prince Jan, by Forrestine C. Hooker (Mills and Boon, 6s.

net), and The King of the Snakes, by Rosetta Baskerville (S.P.C.K., 2s. net), are interesting little books, though too much mixed up with humanity to be, properly speaking, Nature books.

Last (but by no means least) comes Tommy Smith's Birds, by Edmund Selous (Methuen, 2s. 6d. net), an unpretentious, but delicious book, written in the redundant, circumstantial manner dear to all simple souls, from a three-year-old to St. John the Divine. The home lives of Mrs. Nuthatch and Mr. and Mrs. Warbler, and the heart-searchings of Mr. Water Ousel at being "just Mr. Dipper," will entrance the nursery. This is the book of a large and pleasant personality, and though simple in style it is accurate in matter.