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"The author has something interesting to say about all.... he 

 shows the faculty of observation as well as a pleasant style." — 

 Civil <£ Military Gazette. 



" To every reader of Anglo-Indian newspapers the initials of D. D. 

 are familiar as appended to occasional articles dealing pleasantly 

 with various things in the inexhaustible Natwe life of India. 

 Many, therefore, will welcome this collection." — Statesman. 



" We may say at once that he has shown most effectually that 

 the commonest animals are of very considerable importance . . . .and 

 if his book were of no other value, it would do a world of good by 

 showing how much instruction and amusement might be derived 

 from simply watching a fly, a lizard or a bat." — Indian Daily 

 Telegraph. 



"Mr. Dewar writes well and with touches of quiet humour; his 

 sketches are not too long, and in several of them he judiciously 

 blends the popular with the scientific by introducing such subjects 

 as protective co-operation, development in relation to evolution, 

 and bird migration." — The Indian Review. 



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"They are so good that they deserve the distinction of being 

 published in book form. The reader will easily fall under the sway 

 of the writer's charms. . . .Mr. Dewar's book is as interesting as it 

 is entertaining." — Englishman. 



" We may commend the work as an excellent example of ' Nature- 

 teaching,' and, at the same time, as showing how the enforced 

 tedium and confinement of Indian hot weather life may be mitigat- 

 ed by the intelligent observation of the ways of the uninvited 

 denizens of the bungalow and its immediate surroundings." — 

 Nature. 



"Mr. Dewar makes us laugh while he teaches us.... These 

 twenty essays are in all ways delightful." — The Literary World. 



To he obtained of — 

 HIGGINBOTHAM & Co., Madras ^ Bangalore; 



THACKER, SPINK & Co., Calcutta ^ Simla, 

 and of ail Booksellers. 



