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As the subscription income increases it should be possible to

increase the literary contents of the paper, and it is hoped that in

time it may rank high among natural history publications.



REVIEW.


A LAWYER’S GARDEN*


Our Member, Mr. Barnby Smith, has sent us an interesting

and well-written booklet on his garden and aviaries. The work deals

successively (and successfully) with trees and flowers, with a rock

garden, with the birds in the garden, with the fish in the garden;

it has been a great pleasure to read this little work. Under two acres

in extent, the pleasaunce contains a miniature wood of pines and

larches and birches, with maples, poplars, and cedars, beds of rhodo¬

dendrons and azaleas, clumps of irises; the portion devoted to rock

plants blooms with primulas and saxifrages. In the avicultural

section Mr. Smith tells us of his Pheasants, Partridges, Francolin,

Cranes, Ibises, and Oyster-catcher (“so-called because it never catches

oysters”), of his fascinating Waders and lovely Tragopans. Four

fine photographs illustrate this part of the book; those of us who

have read the author’s bird papers published in the Magazine will

well appreciate the interest of the letterpress. An account of a

Rainbow Trout, tame enough to feed from the hand, concludes this

pleasant pamphlet.


The book has been well got up, and is almost free from errors;

on p. 17, however, we read “ Kurroo ” instead of “Karroo”. We

were glad to see that the writer insists that Owls should only be fed

on six days of the week.


G. R.


A HANDBOOK OF BRITISH BIRDS.f


Accurate, concise, invaluable—these epithets one unhesitatingly

applies to the scholarly work before us. A careful compendium of



* Notes on a Lawyer's Garden. By C. Barnby Smith. Illustrated. London :


Adlard & Son and West Newman.


t A Practical Handbook of British Birds. Edited by H. F. Witherby. Illustrated.


London : Witherby & Co. In eighteen Tarts. Price 4s. net per Part.



