LONDON BIRDS AND OTHER 

 SKETCHES. 



By T. DIGBY PIGOTT, C.B. 



NEW EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. Large crown %vo. >js. 6d. 

 With numerous Illustrations. 



The warm welcome accorded to the earlier edition of this work by 

 the comparatively limited circle of readers into whose hands it came 

 has suggested its publication in an enlarged and popular form. Mr. 

 Digby Pigott's occasional contributions to the Press on the birds of 

 the London parks are a delight to all lovers of natural history. This 

 volume contains not only the chapters which appeared in the author's 

 " London Birds and London Insects," carefully revised and brought up 

 to date, but a considerable amount of fresh matter. It is believed 

 that these sketches, in which great knowledge and wide observation are 

 adorned by an exceedingly attractive style, will be found acceptable by 

 all who are fond of Nature in her happiest and brightest aspects. 



The volume is beautifully illustrated by photographs of bird life by 

 Mr. H. C. Monro, C.B., and Lieut.-Colonel W. H. Duthie. The 

 frontispiece is a view of the " Haunt of the Cormorants in St. James's 

 Park," specially drawn by Mr. Archibald Thorburn. 



RANDOM REMINISCENCES. 



By CHARLES H. E. BROOKFIELD. 



One vol. Demy %vo. 14^. nett. 



Mr. Charles Brookfield, whose retirement from the stage has deprived 

 the theatre-going public of one of its most favourite actors, has collected 

 in this volume a large number of exceedingly entertaining anecdotes. 

 Resolving, in his preface, to endeavour to avoid an error into which the 

 autobiographer is prone to fall that of taking himself too seriously he 

 strings upon the thread of his career at Cambridge, in London, and in 

 different parts of the world, a wealth of stories, most of them quite 

 exceptionally amusing, and nearly all connected, naturally, with the 

 lighter side of theatrical life. His father's friendship with Carlyle, 

 Dickens, and Tennyson has enabled him to hand down several 

 interesting anecdotes of these great men, while of almost all the well- 

 known names connected with the theatre of the last twenty years he has 

 some humorous tale to tell. He has known many uncommon people, 

 and writes of them with delightful sympathy and tolerance. 



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