REVIEWS 63 



WITH NATURE AND A CAMERA : BEING THE ADVENTURES 

 AND OBSERVATIONS OF A FIELD NATURALIST AND AN ANIMAL 

 PHOTOGRAPHER. By Richard Kearton, F.Z.S. Illustrated by 180 

 Pictures from Photographs by Cherry Kearton. (London : Cassell 

 and Company, Limited.) 



In the "Annals" for 1896, p. 134, we noticed favourably a 

 former work of the same author on " British Birds' Nests." To 

 that work the one now under consideration is a worthy companion 

 volume. Indeed, attractive as that book was, we have a decided 

 preference for Mr. Kearton's latest production. For there is greater 

 variety in its pictures and pages, hence a charm is lent to a hand- 

 some, beautifully illustrated, and interesting volume. The book 

 opens with an account of a visit to St. Kilda, which in itself is one 

 of the best that we have read ; and it is made additionally attractive 

 by the number, nature, and excellence of the pictures over forty 

 in number which depict the scenes of bird-life and landscape 

 described. 



Special mention must be made too of the series of pictures 

 devoted to bird-snaring, which is so successfully carried on by 

 the St. Kildians, as being among the most interesting photo-pictures 

 we have seen. We would point out that Mr. Kearton includes the 

 Common Gull in his list of the birds of St. Kilda and omits the 

 Kittiwake, though he mentions the latter but not the former in 

 his narrative. We must also remark that the scientific name of 

 the Guillemot is NOT Uria bruennichi. 



Leaving St. Kilda, the book covers varied ground, as do also the 

 illustrations, which range in subject from a Red Underwing Moth at 

 rest on the bark of a tree, to the Water Vole at home on the banks 

 of his native stream. Several of the articles deal with areas in Wild 

 Scotland. 



MEMORIES OF THE MONTHS : BEING PAPERS FROM THE NOTE- 

 BOOK OF A FIELD NATURALIST AND ANTIQUARY, TO WIT, SIR 

 HERBERT MAXWELL, BART., M.P. (London : Edward Arnold, 

 1897.) 



Anything from the facile pen of Sir H. Maxwell is sure to prove 

 of interest and to commend itself to the reader, and the present 

 pretty volume is certainly no exception, for it is seldom we have 

 read anything that has given greater pleasure than these " Memories 

 of the Months." Under this title the author has put together, from 

 his notebook, ninety-one short essays illustrative of the never-ceasing 

 industry, economy, and beauty of Nature, and the perpetual 

 attractions of out-door life in the country in every month and 

 season of the year. 



Sir H. Maxwell's notes cover a very wide area, from the treeless 

 wilds of Caithness to the flowery banks of a Hampshire trout 

 stream. In page after page he pleasantly discourses of the many fair, 



