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"... [Gilbert White's] History of his native parish of 

 Selborne, Hants, which having since been published in more 

 than one edition, and finding an encomiast in every reader, 

 needs not here be commended." 



From the ' Retrospective Eeview/ vol. xiv. p. 3 — 



" It has been well remarked that to De Foe's * Eobinson 

 Crusoe ' we owe more gratitude for that persevering energy 

 of adventurous spirit which has and for ever we trust will 

 animate our navy, than to any other cause whatever. We 

 believe the fact, and to White's 'Natural History of Sel- 

 borne,' by parity of reasoning, we feel inclined to assign the 

 merit of that increasing attachment to the study of natural 

 history which, since his day, has been making such rapid 

 strides. But as De Foe was indebted to another for his 

 invaluable fiction, so to the work before us ['The Philo- 

 sophical Correspondence of Eay and Willughby'] we may 

 ascribe the origin of Mr. White's more popular performance. 

 True it is, that the lively and natural style of the latter must 

 ever prove a formidable rival to its venerable precursor. . . ." 



From the ' Quarterly Review,' January, 1828 — 



" White's delightful work is no longer shut up in a quarto. 

 It is most pleasing to witness the exertions made by eminent 

 writers of our time to produce food for the juvenile mind. 

 Shall we be pardoned for observing that 'The Natural 

 History of Selborne' ought to have a place among the 

 household books of every English family ? " 



From the 'Quarterly Review,' April, 1829, review 



of ' The Journal of a Naturalist'* — 



"We believe very few books on the subject of Natural 

 History have met with such unqualified praise from those 



* Published anonymously by Murray, 8vo, 1829, but known to be by 

 J. L. Knapp, of Alveston, in Gloucestershire. 



