30 APRIL 1898, Page 13

Watched by Wolves, and other Anecdotes of Animals. By Linden

Meadows. (Roxburghe Press.)—The first of these stories is a very well told experience of the Backwoods. By "well told" we especially mean told in such a way as to impress the reader with the sense of the narrator's veracity. The same characteristic is to be seen in the book generally. The wolves are Canadian wolves, who besiege the narrator and his horse—the behaviour of the horse is admirably described—in an old shanty. The tale of the elephant who was cured of his naughtiness by an electric shock is another good story, and there is a specially generous description of the goings-on of a lady spider. These gentle creatures have a habit cf killing and eating their husbands, we presume when the stock of flies grows short.