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For Ornithology, there is no book, after all, 

 like dear old Bewick, passe though he may be in 

 a scientific point of view. There is a good little 

 British Ornithology, too, published in Sir W. 

 Jardine's " Naturalist's Library," and another by 

 Mr. Gosse. And Mr. Knox's " Ornithological 

 Rambles in Sussex," with Mr. St. John's " High- 

 land Sports " and " Tour in Sutherlandshire," 

 are the monographs of naturalists, gentlemen, 

 and sportsmen, which remind one at every page 

 (and what higher praise can one give ?) of 

 "White's "Ilistorj- of Selborne." These last, 

 with Mr. Gosse's " Canadian Naturalist," and 

 his little book, "The Ocean," not forgetting Dar- 

 win's delightful " Voyage of the Beagle and 

 Adventure," ought to be in the hands of every 

 lad who is likely to travel to our colonies. 



For general Geology, Professor Anstcy's Intro- 

 duction is excellent ; while, as a specimen of 

 the way in which a single district may be thor- 

 ouglily worked out, and tlie universal method 

 of induction learnt from a narrow field of 

 object.*, what book can, or perhaps ever will, 

 compare with Mr. Hugh Miller's •* Old Red 

 Sandstone " ? 



