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Naturalist,” has done for those three places what 
White did for Selborne, with all the improved appli- 
ances of a science which has widened and deepened 
tenfold since White’s time. Mr. Gosse’s “ Manual 
of the Marine Zoology of the British Isles” is, for 
classification, by far the completest handbook extant. 
He has contrived in it to compress more sound 
knowledge of vast classes of the animal kingdom 
than I ever saw before in so small a space.? 
Miss Anne Pratt’s “Things of the Sea-coast” is 
excellent; and still better is Professor Harvey’s 
“ Sea-side Book,” of which it is impossible to speak 
too highly ; and most pleasant it is to see a man of 
genius and learning thus gathering the bloom of his 
varied knowledge, to put it into a form equally 
suited to a child and a savant. Seldom, perhaps, 
has there been a little book in which so vast a 
quantity of facts have been told so gracefully, 
simply, without a taint of pedantry or cumbrousness 
1 Very highly also, in interest, ranks M. Quatrefages’ ‘‘ Rambles 
of a Naturalist” (about the Mediterranean and the French Coast). 
translated by M. Otté. 
