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Among the illustrations we may select for special commenda- 
tion those which represent some of the recent results of the applica- 
tion of photography. The magnificent photograph of the nebula in 
Andromeda, by Mr. Isaac Roberts, forms an appropriate frontispiece. 
SHORT STALks; or, Hunting Camps North, South, East, and West. By E.N., 
Buxton. 8vo. Pp. vii., 405. Illustrated. London: Stanford, 1892. Price ats. 
From the main title, which alone appears on the cover, it might be 
thought that the volume before us was a treatise on some branch of 
botany or horticulture, if not a novel, whereas, as a matter of fact, 
it is a very interesting book on ‘‘ big game” shooting. It must not 
however, be thought that it comes merely under the designation of 
an ordinary book of sport, since the author gives us some very valu- 
able information as to the habits and mode of life of the various 
animals treated. Moreover, Mr. Buxton has been fortunate in the 
localities he has selected for many of his hunting trips, whereby he 
has been brought into contact with animals as to whose habits there 
has hitherto been a dearth of information in the works of recent 
English writers. Sporting works on the larger mammals of Southern 
Africa, India, and North America are so numerous as to afford an 
almost superabundance of information ; whereas, in regard to Eastern 
Asia, Europe, and North Africa there is a marked dearth of acces- 
sible and reliable observations by English sportsmen. We are, there- 
fore, especially glad to welcome Mr. Buxton’s accounts of the 
Sardinian Mouflon (Ovis musimon), of the Spanish or Pyrenean Wild 
Goat (Capra pyrenaica), of the Arui (Ovis tvagelaphus) of North Africa, 
as well as of the Pasang or Persian Wild Goat (Capra egagyus), and the 
Chamois (fupicapra tragus). The majority of the twelve chapters into 
which the work is divided have already appeared as separate articles 
in various serials and newspapers, but they are now so much ermbel- 
lished by the addition of the excellent illustrations with which the 
book is adorned, that it is difficult to recognise them as the same. By 
the courtesy of Mr. Stanford we are enabled to reproduce one of these 
illustrations as a sample. In addition to these excellent portraits of 
the animals he describes so graphically, Mr. Buxton also incidentally 
introduces some charming little sketches of bird-life and scenery. 
The first chapter of the book is devoted to the Mouflon, which the 
author describes as one of the most difficult animals to stalk which he 
has ever come across. The second deals with the Chamois of the 
Alps, while the variety inhabiting the Pyrenees is described in the 
ninth chapter under its Iberian name, Izzard; and here we may point 
out to the author that he is quite behind modern zoology in referring 
to this animal under the title of Antilope vupicapra. ‘The third chapter 
is devoted to American game, where some interesting observations are 
recorded as to the habits of the Bighorn Sheep (Ovis montana) ; while 
in the fifth Mr. Buxton treats of the Arui and Mountain Gazelle of 
Algeria. The author appears to have been the first Englishman who 
has hunted these animals, and the results of his observations have 
already appeared in the Zoological Society’s Proceedings. We are 
told that the name “‘ Aoudad,”’ so commonly applied to the Arui, is 
quite unknown-in its native land, and the author also speaks as to 
the remarkable powers of concealment possessed by these animals. 
The Elk of Norway claims the whole of the fifth chapter ; while the 
sixth (which originally appeared in the Nineteenth Century) treats of the 
Pasang, under the legend of ‘- The Father of all the Goats,” in allusion 
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