140 The Ottawa Naturalist [Dec. 



With regard to landscape art in general, the speaker 

 advanced the theory that the strictly characteristic thing on 

 the continent of North America was a high regard for large aspects 

 of natural scenery. Lantern slides were exhibited showing the 

 beauties of native scenery, special attention being given to the 

 magnificent views in the Canadian Rockies. Canadians and 

 Americans dearly love this wild scenery, and its preservation in 

 large public parks is a great national duty. The speaker said 

 that while landscape gardening in many of the older countries 

 of Europe had often meant gardening with the landscape left 

 out, it might well mean on the continent of North America 

 landscape with the gardening left out. While this should not 

 be interpreted to cover the whole of landscape art, it should 

 always be recognized as one of the most important manifesta- 

 tions of it in Canada and the United States. 



BOOK NOTICES. 



The Home-life of the Osprey, photographed and des- 

 cribed by Clinton G. Abbott, B.A., Associate of the American 

 Ornithologists' Union, with thirty-two mounted plates. Lon- 

 don: Witherby & Co., 326 High Holborn, W. C. Published 

 price 61- net. 



This delightful story of the home-life of the Osprey is a 

 companion volume to " The Home-life of a Golden Eagle", 

 which was noticed in the July number of the Ottawa Natural- 

 ist. It is the third volume of the " Bird-lover's Home-life 

 Series" which are being published by the above firm. The 

 author's observations were mostly made on Gardiner's Island, 

 which is a well known breeding ground for Ospreys, and which 

 lies about three miles from the eastern point of Long Island. 

 The photographs which accompany the volume are particulars 

 good and well arranged. The w r hole work is very pleasing and 

 it will undoubtedly have a ready sale among students and 

 lovers of birds. 



The Life of the Common Gull, Told in Photographs, 

 by C. Rubow, 1/6 net, is another bird booklet recently published 

 bv W T itherby & Co. This contains 25 half-tone reproductions 

 from photographs, illustrating the nesting habits, etc. of Larus 

 canus, which is one of the most frequent gulls on the coast of 

 the North Sea and the Baltic, and which has also been occ 

 allv met with on the Labrador Coast. ^C\ til 0/1, 



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