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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



Fig. 70. 



"Whin chat. Stoneciiat. 



From " Our Feathered Companions," 



KINDNESS TO ANIMALS. 



"TTTE have before us three books,* the special 

 * " design of which is to inculcate kindness to 

 animals. They are all by different authors, but one 

 publisher, uniform in size, style, appearance, and 

 price. If we felt disposed to criticise such books 

 in a discontented spirit, and be over-nice about old 

 stories in new forms, or such-like cavils, we must 

 confess that the object for which these books are 

 written would at once disarm us. Not that there 

 is anything in them that we should disapprove, 

 under the rose ; but, after all, we like " Our 

 Feathered Companions " the best. Is it because we 

 love birds so much, that we are led to prefer this, the 

 only book of the three written in dialugue, although 

 dialogue books are our abhorrence. It must be so; 

 nothing else, except the object, could sanctify such 

 a means. Of course, Shirley Hibberd's book is 

 well done ; and Mrs. S. C. Hall's name is too well 

 known for the good things she has written to leave 

 room for doubt. Altogether, then, this is a worthy 

 trio of books ; they are written for a holy purpose, 

 and whilst thanking the authors for their cham- 

 pionship of our "dumb companions," we wish the 

 series every success, and speedy sale. 



*" Clever Dogs, Horses, &c, with Anecdotes of other 

 Animals." By Shirley Hibberd. 



"Animal Sagacity." Edited by Mrs. S. C. Hall. 



" Our Feathered Companions " By the Rev. Thomas 

 Jackson, M.A. All published by S. W. Partridge & Co., 

 9, Paternoster Row. 



GILL OF SWORE-FISH. 



/~\NE of the latest novelties which Mr. Wheeler 

 " of Holloway has offered to microscopists in 

 the way of mounted objects, is a portion of the gill 

 of the swordlisli. It certainly resembles (super- 

 ficially of course) a slice of sponge, and is an 



Fig. 71. Gill of Swordfish. 



illustration of organic structure at once beautiful 

 and instructive, and will find a place in every good 

 cabinet of objects. Our figure only represents it 

 under quite a low power, but when seen under a 

 higher amplification, it exhibits new beauties which 

 the graver's art fails to render. The slides arc 

 "got ud" in Mr. Wheelei's best style. 



