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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



a favorite with the author, and we are safe 

 to say that no man — living or dead — has 

 ever before succeeded in penetrating so far 

 into the home life of this interesting animal. 

 A depressing note is sounded when we are 

 shown that most animals are more or less 

 diseased, but the keynote of the whole book 

 is one of intense loving enthusiasm. It can- 



not fail to give a scientific and lasting basis 

 to the interest which Seton aroused long 

 ago through his wild animal stories, and 

 we join with the numerous critics who have 

 endorsed Frank M. Chapman's dictum — 

 "Seton has done for the mammals what Au- 

 dubon did for the birds, but has done it bet- 

 ter." 



