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sportsmen, which remind one at every page (and 
what higher praise can one give?) of White’s 
“History of Selborne.”’ These last, with Mr. 
Gosse’s “Canadian Naturalist,” and his little book 
“The Ocean,” not forgetting Darwin’s delightful 
“Voyage of the Beagle and Adventure,” ought to 
be in the hands of every lad who is likely to travel 
to our colonies. 
For general Geology, Professor Ansted’s Intro- 
duction is excellent; while, as a specimen of the 
way in which a single district may be thoroughly 
worked out, and the universal method of induction 
learnt from a narrow field of objects, what book can, 
or perhaps ever will, compare with Mr. Hugh Miller’s 
“Old Red Sandstone ” ? 
For this last reason, I especially recommend to the 
young the Rev. C. A. Johns’s “ Week at the Lizard,” 
as teaching a young person how much there is to be 
seen and known within a few square miles of these 
British Isles. But, indeed, all Mr. Johns’s books are 
good (as they are bound to be, considering his 
most accurate and varied knowledge), especially his 
