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paradise for hunters and not the preserve of millionaires, 

 of a Sahara desert scene, and of the Caribbean . . . and 

 a happy expression here and there rivets itself in the 

 reader's memory, as when, for instance, he calls the 

 adaptive hairy armadillo 'the Vicar of Bray' of the 

 Pampas, when he alludes to the trained cheeta as a 

 'feline greyhound,' and where he styles Cuvier the 

 'Columbus of the antediluvian world.'' Tribune. 



"Mr. Renshaw's essays are decidedly original in the 

 treatment of the subject. They deal not merely with the 

 natural history of animals, but also with the history of 

 our knowledge of them. . . . Never before, indeed, has 

 the history of mammalian forms been more attractively 

 presented to the public. The history of the discovery 

 of some of these grand forms of life is often a true 

 romance of natural history which, appealing strongly to 

 the author, is graphically re-told by him ; and his 

 enthusiasm enables him to carry the reader with him 

 to see in his mind's eye the country inhabited by the 

 beasts he describes, and to feel some of the keen delight 

 experienced by the hunter-naturalist when some such 

 beautiful trophy as the sable antelope rewarded him 

 for all his toil. He excels in describing the natural 

 scenery, the setting, of the subjects of his essays; and, 

 writing of the Malay tapir of 'antediluvian appearance,' 

 conjures up a most realistic mental picture of the home 

 of the Palaeotheres, their ancient representatives, when, 

 in far-off days, they roamed over swamps covering the 

 present site of Paris." Nature. 



" Mr. Renshaw has gone somewhat farther afield than 

 most writers who have dealt with the same species, by 

 giving a fuller account of their history, with details of 

 their first mention by old authors, and reference to the 

 naturalists by whom they were originally described. On 



