7 OCTOBER 1916, Page 31

The Birds of Shakespeare. By Sir Archibald Geikie, O.M. (Glasgow

: J. 3IaeLehoss and Sons. 3s. Gd. net.)—In this charming essay the veteran geologist collects Shakespeare's references to birds, of which he names at least fifty species, and shows once more how intimate a knowledge of wild nature he had acquired in the woods and lanes of leafy Warwickshire. It is odd that the pheasant should occur once only and the partridge twice. Twenty excellent woodcuts from Saunders's Manual of British Birds illustrate the book.