26 LIST OF BOOKS 



ology of a region which, from its situation and productions, is of singular interest 

 to science." — Scotsman. 



" Clearly and tersely written, ohviously the product of personal observation by 

 one who is primarily a lover and observer of nature." — Inverness Courier. 



" For seven years he was surveying in Japan, and this work is the fruit of his 

 winter leisure. While coasting round Yesso and the Kuriles he constantly kept 

 the dredge at work, and discovered many new creatures. He does not confine him- 

 self to natural history ; he tells us a great deal more than even Miss Bird of life in 

 the interior of Japan. The book will take high rank." — Graphic. 



"His rough notes of their very primitive ways are pleasantly put together — 

 some of these 'ways' being extremely 'peculiar,' according to European ideas, 

 but with a strange mixture of good and evil. Supporters of foreign missions might 

 do worse than study Captain St. John's remarks on the difference between the pro- 

 gress of Roman Catholic and Protestant missionary enterprise in the far East." — 

 North British Daily Mail. 



ST. JOHN- Notes on the Natural History of the Province 



of Moray. By the late Charles St. John, author of "Wild Sports in the High- 

 lands." Second Edition. In 1 vol. royal 8vo, with 40 page. Illustrations of Scenery 

 and Animal Life, engraved by A. Durand after sketches made by George Reid, 

 R.S.A., and J. Wycliffe Taylor ; also, 30 Pen-and-ink Drawings by the author in 

 facsimile. Price 50s. 



" This is a new edition of the work brought out by the friends of the late Mr. St. 

 John in 1S63 ; but it is so handsomely and nobly printed, and enriched with such 

 charming illustrations, that we may consider it a new book." — St. James's Gazette. 



" Charles St. John was not an artist, but he had the habit of roughly sketching 

 animals in positions which interested him, and the present reprint is adorned by a 

 great number of these, facsimiled from the author's original pen and ink. Some of 

 these, as, for instance, the studies of the golden eagle swooping on its prey, and 

 that of the otter swimming with a salmon in its mouth, are very interesting, and 

 full of that charm that comes from the exact transcription of unusual observa- 

 tion." — Pall Mall Gazette. 



"The feature of the present edition is the series of beautiful sketches made 

 specially for this volume by Mr. George Reid, R.S.A., and Mr. Wycliffe Taylor, 

 together with numberless pieces from St. John's own sketch-book introduced into 

 the text. ' Roughness ' they (the latter) certainly possess, almost as if St. John 

 had thrown the inkstand at the paper, but withal a spirit of suggestiveness which 

 makes them well-nigh unique among portraits of birds and other animals, and we 

 cannot be too grateful to the editor for presenting them in this form." — Nation 

 (New York). 



ST. JOHN— A Tour in Sutherlandshire, with Extracts from 



the Field-Books of a Sportsman and Naturalist. By the late Charles St. John, 

 author of " Wild Sports and Natural History in the Highlands." Second Edition, 

 with an Appendix on the Fauna of Sutherland, by J. A. Harvie- Brown and 

 T. E. Buckley. Illustrated with the original wood-engravings, and additional 

 vignettes from the Author's sketch-books. In 2 vols., small demy Svo, 21s. 



SCHIERN— Life of James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell. 



By Professor Schiern, Copenhagen. Translated from the Danish by the Rev. 

 Davtd Berry, F.S.A. Scot. Demy Svo, 16s. 



" The real interest in the book lies in the information which it contains about 

 the life of Bothwell after the surrender at Carberry. The only trustworthy infor- 

 mation concerning the latter period of his life must be sought from Scandinavian 

 sources." 



" Not only well written and interesting, but at the same time so thoroughly 

 trustworthy that it can well bear the test of close critical examination."— Saturday 

 Review. 



