THE WONDERS OF THE SHORE. IGl 



this respect, and authors who should be in every 

 boy's library : but they are rather anecdotists 

 than systematic or scientific inquirers ; AvhUe 

 Mr. Gosse, in his " Naturalist on the Shores of 

 Devon," his " Tour in Jamaica," and his " Cana- 

 dian Naturalist," has done for those three places 

 what White did for Selborne, with all the 

 improved appliances of a science which has 

 widened and deepened tenfold since White's 

 time. 



Miss Anne Pratt's " Things of the Sea-coast " 

 is excellent ; and still better is Professor Harvey's 

 " Sea-side Book," of which it is impossible to 

 speak too highly ; and most pleasant it is to see 

 a man of genius and learning thus gathering 

 the bloom of his varied knowledge, to put it into 

 a form equally suited to a child and to a savant. 

 Seldom, perhap?, has tlierc been a little book in 

 which so vast a quantity of facts lias been com- 

 pressed into so small a space, and yet told so 

 gracefully, simply, without a taint of pedantry or 

 cumbrousncss, — an excellence which is the sure 

 and only mark of a pei-fcct mastery of the 

 subject. 



Two little "Popular" Histories, one of Brit- 

 ish Zoiiphytcs, the other of British Sea-weeds, by 



