1898] SOME NEW WOES 205 



as he saw the luxuries in the market : ' How much there is in the 

 world that I do not want ! ' " 



The Pruning-book is eminently practical, but in the right way. 

 All the advice is based on a body of solid principles, and these are 

 explained by reference to the life-histories of various typical branches. 

 Anyone who has mastered the instances given by Professor Bailey 

 should be able to work out for himself the correct mode of pruning 

 any unfamiliar tree. A hundred and forty pages are devoted to 

 American viticulture, but this need not be grudged by us, as the rest 

 is well worth the money. 



Birds near Sydney 



The Birds of the County of Cumberland. By Alfred J. North, C.M.Z.S., Australian 

 Museum, Sydney. Reprinted from the Handbook of Sydney and the County of 

 Cumberland. Melbourne : George Robertson & Co. 8vo, pp. 116. 



Mr North has produced a useful pamphlet for local ornithologists. 

 His list of twenty-one species does not include any but well-known 

 Australian birds ; but it has been compiled with manifest care, and 

 should enable any visitor to ascertain what species he might hope to 

 study during a few months' residence within the prescribed topo- 

 graphical limits. It is satisfactory to learn that the Lyre-bird (Menura 

 superba) still frequents certain spots in the mountain ranges, and that 

 the Black Swan (Chenopsis atrata) is still common in most of the 

 inlets along the coast. Our information concerning the Freckled 

 Duck {Stictonetta naevosa) is already so meagre that we wish that Mr 

 Xi nth could have supplemented his reference to the occurrence of this 

 bird in Xew South "Wales in 1897, with a few fresh facts as to its 

 life history. The families of Timcliidae and Meliphagidae include 

 many of the most characteristic Aves of this district ; but the Order 

 Psittaci is also much in evidence. H. A. Macpherson. 



Alexander Goodman More 



Life and Letters of Alexander Goodman* Moke, with Selections from his Zoologi- 

 cal and Botanical "Writings. Edited by C. B. Moffat, B.A., with a preface by 

 Frances M. More. 8vo, pp. xii. 642. Dublin : Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1898. 



The late Mr A. G. More possessed such a charming personality that 

 there could be no doubt as to the wisdom of republishing his corre- 

 spondence with the late Charles Darwin, Professor Newton, and other 

 well-known zoologists. But the present volume does far more than 

 this. A large portion of the text is occupied by pleasant letters and 

 extracts from the diaries of the late Curator of the Dublin Museum ; 

 but more than two hundred pages are devoted to the reproduction of 

 Mr More's essays and papers on Irish botany and zoology. Two of 

 these articles are of wider interest than the rest, viz., those on the 

 " Distribution of Birds in Great Britain during the Nesting Season," 

 and the " Geographical Distribution of Butterflies in Great Britain." 

 The former may indeed be considered classical, and proved of the 

 utmost value to later workers. But A. G. More expended his greatest 

 efforts in advancing the extension of Irish natural history. The 

 impetus which his personal influence lent to the original researches 

 of such Irish naturalists as Barrington and Barrett-Hamilton can best 



