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LIFE AT THE ZOO 



NOTES AND TRADITIONS OF THE REGENT'S PARK 

 GARDENS. 



BY 



C. J. CORNISH. 



Illustrated from Photographs by Gambier Bolton. 

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" Mr. Cornish not only knows his dumb friends in Regent's Park institution 

 and beyond its limits well enough to have acquired a profound understanding of 

 their varying habits and peculiarities, but he is able to do the humour of the 

 animal world an amount of justice such as it very rarely obtains .... In its 

 graver, as in its lighter portions, this absorbing work is without a single dull or 

 superfluous line, and its value is not a little enhanced by the several beautiful 

 reproductions of photographs by Mr. Gambier Bolton. Alike for young people 

 and for children of ' a larger growth,' the pleasure of a visit to the ' Zoo ' will be 

 enhanced tenfold by a study of Mr. Cornish's equally diverting and instructive 

 book." World. 



"Mr. Cornish is manifestly a keen lover of animals and a close observer of 

 their habits and humours, and he records his observations in a very attractive 

 fashion, genial in tone, curiously felicitous in description, and with frequent 

 touches of quiet humour." Times. 



"He gives in short compass the results of long and patient observation, 

 and in doing so displays to an envious degree the faculty of critical, but easy, 

 exposition." Standard. 



' ' A charming series of sketches that form a pleasant medley for the lover of 

 animals." Saturday Review. 



"A more companionable book than ' Life at the Zoo,' for a visitor to the 

 great menagerie, we cannot imagine .... Interesting, thoughtful, and teem- 

 ing with acute and often minute observation, and the sympathy of a true 

 naturalist. " Spectator. 



"The articles on 'Animal Colouring," 'Patterns on Living Animals,' 'The 

 Speech of Monkeys,' ' The Temper of Animals,' and many others we might 

 also mention, show startling insight and much originality. Mr. Cornish writes 

 well, and, if we mistake not, this should place him high in reputation amongst 

 his brother naturalists." Black and White. 



" The book is beautifully illustrated, and one of the pleasantest introductions 

 to popular natural history we have seen for some time." Daily Telegraph. 



' ' The book gives an account of the habits and nature of the inmates of the 

 lordly prison-house in the Regent's Park, and of some of their past or future 

 companions. It is of absorbing interest throughout. " Daily News. 



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