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Climbers, Water- Plants, Plants for Moist and Boggy Ground, Wall- 

 Plants, etc., directions for the selection of the most suitable species 

 being given in each case. If these directions are carried out in the 

 spirit here shown, many a neglected corner will become a thing of 

 beauty. The book is illustrated by a series of excellent photographs by 

 the author. 



Photography for Naturalists. By Douglas English. London : 

 Iliffe & Sons. Price 5s. net. 

 There are two methods of photographing wild animals. One is that 

 made famous by the brothers Kearton, what is termed " Stalking Photo- 

 graphy," or photography in which the camera is taken as closely to the 

 animal as circumstances will permit, or else is fixed in some position 

 in which the animal to be photographed is expected sooner or later to 

 be, in which case the operator is dependent on his patience, power of 

 observation, and the time at his disposal for his success. The second 

 method is one which Mr. Douglas English has adopted with such 

 success as to make his name a familiar one to all interested in the 

 photography of animals, and is in some respects the opposite of the 

 first method. It may be termed the photography of animals "by 

 control." In other words, the animal is brought to the camera instead 

 of the camera to the animal. It is the photography, not of wild life at 

 home, but of wild life made to look at home, and, if possible, to feel at 

 home. The results of this method as explained and illustrated in this 

 volume prove that natural history studies are as good when done in this 

 way as by the stalking method. Mr. English has taken considerable 

 pains to give his sitters accurate, if artificial, natural surroundings, 

 which is, of course, an additional charm to the photograph ; but we think 

 that in some cases — as he does also — that it is as well to photograph 

 a living animal on a homogeneous background to show it up better. 

 Thus Dr. Leighton photographs his living adders by allowing them to 

 move about on a large sheet of white blotting-paper until the correct 

 moment for exposure. This book deals in turn with apparatus, the 

 photography of mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, insects, pets, decorative 

 natural history work, and other practical matters, and all the instruc- 

 tions are admirable. We search for the amphibians in vain as such, 

 but, to our surprise, find them under the name of reptiles, an error to be 

 rectified, we hope, in the next edition of this excellent manual of natural 

 history photography. 



The Natural History ok Animals. By Professor J. R. Ainsworth 

 Davis, M.A. London : The Gresham Publishing Co. Half-vol. 

 ii. Price 7s. 

 In our last issue we set forth the general plan of these volumes, and 

 we have now received the second, completing volume i. The first half- 

 volume dealt with the classification and characters of the Vertebrates, 

 beginning with man and going down the scale as far as the Amphibians. 

 In the second half-volume before us the fishes and primitive Verte- 



