7 DECEMBER 1912, Page 11

Baby Birds at Home. By Richard Hearten. With illustrations from

photographs by Cherry and Grace Hearten. (Cassell and Co. 6s. net.)-Mr. Kearton's name sufficiently indicates the contents. The letterpress is intended for children, and is simple and effective : the reproductions from photographs are quite admirable, and range from young golden eagles in the eyrie to willow-wrens on an oak bough. There is no particular arrangement; the first three birds in the book are the jay, cuckoo, and yellow-hammer, and the last three the stockdove, reed bunting, and dipper. It would have been better to have kept to some kind of classification ; and why, when other common birds are not mentioned, include a description of a blue-headed wagtail? Of the many photographs, we prefer the plain to the coloured.