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Band of Mercy (issued by the Royal Society for the Preven- 

 tion of Cruelty to Animals), Vol. XVI. Cr. 4to, pp. 96. (London : S. W. 

 Partridge and Co. 1894.; 



All children who are fond of dumb animals must be pleased with this 

 prettily illustrated volume. Besides a number of pictures, music, etc. , it is full 

 of interesting tales and anecdotes relating to animals, birds, and insects. 



The Book of the Fair. Parts VIII. and IX. (Chicago, 



111., U.S.A.) Price $1. 



This interesting publication, by Hubert Howe Bancroft, is the only work of 

 the kind published regarding the great Exposition. It is to be a full and com- 

 plete history and description of the World's Fair at Chicago, organisation, 

 buildings, and exhibits, covering the whole ground, and is as full in detail as 

 can be within the limits assigned — namely, 1,000 imperial folio pages of pic- 

 tures and print, to be issued in 25 parts, of 40 pages each. The publication began 

 soon after the opening of the Exposition. The Book of the Fair is published 

 by the Bancroft Company, Auditorium Building. Chicago. 



These numbers commence with a description of the Woman's Depart- 

 ment, which is followed by an account of the Machinery. The section 

 allotted to Agriculture is commenced. The illustrations are very numerous 

 and most excellent. 



The American Annual of Photography and Photographic 

 Times Almanack for 1895. 8^'*^> PP- 43^- (New York : The Scovill and 

 Adams Co.) Price : Stout paper covers, 50c. ; cloth, fi. 



The volume before us is the Ninth Annual Volume of the series, of which 

 we feel bound to say each has been better than its predecessor. This volume, 

 besides a number of beautiful plates and some eighty or more illustrations in 

 the text, contains a large amount of interesting matter, written by men who 

 have earned for themselves honourable distinction in the history of photography. 



European Butterflies and Moths. By W. F. Kirby, 

 F.L.S., F.E.S., etc. (London : Cassell and Co.) Price 6d. monthly. 



This beautifully illustrated periodical has reached Part 10. Each part 

 contains a coloured plate, showing several species of Lepidoptera in their 

 various stages. 



A Hand-book to the British Mammalia. By R. Lydekker, 

 B.A., F.R.S., V.P.G.S., etc. Edited by R. Bowdler Sharp, LL.D., F.L.S., 

 etc. Crown 8vo, pp. xiv. — 339. (London: W. H. Allen & Co. 1895.) 6/- 



This beautifully illustrated volume is one of "Allen's Naturalist's Library" 

 series, and gives descriptions, not only of those mammals now found in Britain, 

 but it contains brief notices of the species exterminated within historic period, 

 and a further section devoted to the fossil forms. The work is throughout 

 handsomely got up, both as to binding and letterpress, and contains in addi- 

 tion 32 excellent coloured plates. 



A Hand-book to the Primates. By Henry O. Forbes, 

 L.L.D., F.Z.S., etc. Vols. I. and IL Cr. 8vo, pp. xv.— 286 and xv.— 296. 

 (London : W. H. Allen and Co. 1894.) 



The first of these volumes contains an account of the Lemuroidea and the 

 Anthropoidea as far as the group of the Macaques of the family Cercopithecidce. 

 The second volume continues with the latter genus, and contains the rest of the 

 Monkeys and the Apes, as well as a summary of the geographical distribution 

 of the species of the order Primates. There are in the two volumes 29 coloured 

 plates and 8 coloured maps. 



