1898] SOME NEW BOOKS 205 
as he saw the luxuries in the market: ‘How much there is in the 
world that I do not want!’” 
The Pruning-book is eminently practical, but in the right way. 
All the advice is based on a body of solid principles, and these are 
explained by reference to the life-histories of various typical branches. 
Anyone who has mastered the instances given by Professor Bailey 
should be able to work out for himself the correct mode of pruning 
any unfamiliar tree. A hundred and forty pages are devoted to 
American viticulture, but this need not be grudged by us, as the rest 
is well worth the money. 
BIRDS NEAR SYDNEY 
THE BIRDS OF THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND. By Alfred J. North, C.M.Z.8., Australian 
Museum, Sydney. Reprinted from the Handbook of Sydney and the County of 
Cumberland. Melbourne: George Robertson & Co. 8vo, pp. 116. 
Mr Nortu has produced a useful pamphlet for local ornithologists. 
His list of twenty-one species does not include any but well-known 
Australian birds; but it has been compiled with manifest. care, and 
should enable any visitor to ascertain what species he might hope to 
study during a few months’ residence within the prescribed topo- 
graphical limits. It is satisfactory to learn that the Lyre-bird (Menura 
superba) still frequents certain spots in the mountain ranges, and that 
the Black Swan (Chenopsis atrata) is still common in most of the 
inlets along the coast. Our information concerning the Freckled 
Duck (Stictonetta naevosa) is already so meagre that we wish that Mr 
North could have supplemented his reference to the occurrence of this 
bird in New South Wales in 1897, with a few fresh facts as to its 
life history. The families of Zimelitdae and Meliphagidae include 
many of the most characteristic Aves of this district ; but the Order 
Psittaci is also much in evidence. H. A. MAcPHERSON. 
ALEXANDER GOODMAN MORE 
LIFE AND LETTERS OF ALEXANDER GOODMAN Morz, with Selections from his Zoologi- 
cal and Botanical Writings. Edited by C. B. Moffat, B.A., with a preface by 
Frances M. More. 8vo, pp. xii. 642, Dublin: Hodges, Figgis & Co., 1898. 
THE late Mr A. G. More possessed such a charming personality that 
there could be no doubt as to the wisdom of republishing his corre- 
spondence with the late Charles Darwin, Professor Newton, and other 
well-known zoologists. But the present volume does far more than 
this. A large portion of the text is occupied by pleasant letters and 
extracts from the diaries of the late Curator of the Dublin Museum ; 
but more than two hundred pages are devoted to the reproduction of 
Mr More’s essays and papers on Irish botany and zoology. Two of 
these articles are of wider interest than the rest, viz., those on the 
“Distribution of Birds in Great Britain during the Nesting Season,” 
and the “Geographical Distribution of Butterflies in Great Britain.” 
The former may indeed be considered classical, and proved of the 
utmost value to later workers. But A. G. More expended his greatest 
efforts in advancing the extension of Irish natural history. The 
impetus which his personal influence lent to the original researches 
of such Irish naturalists as Barrington and Barrett-Hamilton can best 
