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Complete in One Volume, 8vo. with 24 full-page Engravings and 78 Illustrations in 

 the Text, price 21s. cloth, or 28s. half -bound in morocco, with gilt edges, 



BIBLE ANIMALS ; a Description of Every Living Creature 



mentioned in the Scriptures, from the Ape to the Coral. By J. G. WOOD, 

 M.A. F.L.S. 



' The Rev. J. G-. WOOD, a gentleman 

 who has laboured most zealously to 

 popularise zoological studies amongst 

 Englishmen, has lately added to his 

 already considerable body of writings a 

 handsome volume named Bible Animals, 

 ranging, as the title-page tells us, from 

 the ape to the coral. It is not by any 

 means the first book of the kind which 

 has been issued, but it may fairly claim 

 the title of the most complete. The 

 descending scale in creation is adopted 

 for the arrangement of the work, so that 

 the higher mammals meet us at the be- 

 ginning of the volume, the birds come 

 next in order, succeeded in turn by the 

 reptiles and the fishes, while the inver- 

 tebrate animals close the series. Nearly 

 one hundred creatures are described in 

 separate chapters, independently of the 



fishes, which are treated as a group, 

 owing to the great difficulty, or rather 

 impossibility, of distinguishing the vari- 

 ous species referred to in Holy Writ. 

 Much ingenuity and learning is displayed 



in the accumulation of proofs necessary 

 to fix the true modern name of different 

 animals which are but cursorily referred 

 to in the Bible, and the reader, while 

 nominally pursuing zoological inquiries 

 alone, insensibly acquires a fund of curi- 

 ous knowledge of many collateral facts 

 which are quite as interesting as those 

 which make up the main bulk of the 

 volume. And skilful as Mr. WOOD'S 

 word-painting is, we are not left to it 

 alone in order to gain a clear idea of the 

 creatures he describes, for a hundred 

 bold and telling illustrations, twenty- 

 four of which are full-page ones, adorn 

 the volume. We have not often seen a 

 book which will do more to give life and 

 interest to Bible-reading amongst young 

 people, to whom it is too often made an 

 irksome task, and though there must be 

 many hundreds of families where it 

 would be a welcome visitor, we are 

 tempted, on this ground, to name school- 

 libraries as the places to which it is most 

 perfectly suited.' CHURCH TIMES. 



In One Volume, 8vo. with a Frontispiece in Colours and upwards of 700 Illustrations 

 (21 full size of page) engraved on Wood by G-. Pearson from Original Designs 

 by E. A. Smith and J. B. Zwecker, price 21s. 



INSECTS AT HOME; a Popular Account of British Insects, 



their Structure, Habits, and Transformations. By the Rev. J. G. WOOD, 

 M.A. F.L.S. 



By the same Author, uniformly printed, 1 vol. 8vo. price 21s. 



INSECTS ABROAD; a Popular Account of Foreign Insects, 



their Structure, Habits and Transformations. Illustrated with 600 Figures 

 (including 20 full-page subjects) by E. A. Smith and J. B. Zwecker, engraved 

 on Wood by G. Pearson. 



' This book is not merely instructive ; 

 it will be found entertaining by those 

 who care anything for a knowledge of 

 nature. The object of the work is two- 

 fold, the first being to shew the'great and 

 important part played by insects in the 

 economy of the world, and the extreme 

 value to mankind of those insects which 

 we are accustomed to call destructives ; 

 whilst in the next place we see noted the 

 wonderful modifications of structure 

 which enable the insects to fulfil their 

 mission, and the surpassing beauty by 



which many of them are characterised 

 Incidentally, a charm is imparted to the 

 work by the descriptions which are given 

 of interesting points connected with 

 insect life, such, for instance, as the 

 manner in which many of them directly 

 support human life by furnishing food, 

 or being themselves eaten.' 



HAMPSHIRE ADVERTISER. 

 4 A volume, as amusing as it is instruc- 

 tive, which may convey not a few 

 useful morals to the young.' 



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