MR. EDWARD CLODD writes : 



(Mr. Clodd is the author of many useful and accurate popular scientific 

 works ; his opinion therefore, from the scientific view, is of value.) 



" It seems to me excellent for the purpose you keep in view ; the stimulating 

 of inquiry while the practical suggestions which follow the exposition, if 

 acted on, should make the poultry and egg trade wake up. The references to 

 animal ancestry habits are apposite and interesting." 



MR. H. RIDER HAGGARD writes : 



'"Many thanks for your Country Reader. I think it an excellent little work, 

 and likely to prove very useful." 



DR. A. CONAN DOYLE writes : 



"Very many thanks for the most interesting little book." 



THE SPEOTATOR.~-"l\. is a 'reading-book,' so that while our country 

 school boys and girls are learning to read aloud, they can also be learning the 

 desirable information contained in it, and at the same time gain from the 

 pictures what children pick up more quickly in that way than in any other 

 available indoors what first-class animals, such as Lord Rothschild's dairy 

 shorthorns, or the Duke of Wellington's cart teams, or a prize Aberdeen-Angus 

 bull, or a good retriever or gamecock or Dorking hen, or South Down sheep, 

 ought to look like. It is all quite short, and yet quite readable, and not at all 

 like 'lessons,' while at the same time thoroughly up to date, and good enough 

 for reference by the most practical person. The dairy chapters are excellent, 

 with a photograph of a most pleasing dairy-maid in a nice clean tiled dairy." 



METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOL RECORD. "We have great 

 pleasure in introducing this book to the attention of our many country readers. 

 The work is intended as a Reading Book for Schools, but no man, gentle or 

 simple, living in the country can read it without profit. It is scholarly without 

 a trace of pedantry. It contains an immense amount of information, not 

 generally known, of the history of the horse, the ox, the pig, the sheep, the 

 dog, poultry and bees, and of the farmer's friends and foes, birds and insects. 

 The greatest value, however, lies in teaching the habit of observation, the 

 cultivation of right feeling towards our domestic animals, and the inculcation 

 of their proper treatment. We cannot conceive anything more likely to be 

 useful to our country boys and girls than the study of this charming little work. 

 We wish a copy were in every village library, and especially in our Sunday 

 School Libraries." 



GLOBE. " We could wish that this admirable 'Reader' were adopted in 

 the Board schools of our overcrowded cities and towns, where children, for all 

 their unnatural surroundings, are keenly interested in country life. 



" Such a book in the hands of a wise and sympathetic schoolmaster would 

 help to breed in the minds of city children a desire for the farming life which 

 might one day influence their choice of a career, to the great advantage of the 

 State. But its first use is to the village child, and its adoption in our country 

 schools might almost be termed a national duty. As a rule the country child 

 is quite ignorant of his surroundings, and certainly grows up hi the very 

 darkest ignorance of modern scientific farming." 



FIELD. "The chapters deal, in a first division, with elementary facts, 

 stated in a manner to impel interest, respecting farm life in the country 

 horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, dogs, poujtry, and bees, and in Part II. with the 

 life of our wild animals, birds, and insects. The illustrations are for the most 

 part very good." 



NATURE. "Common domestic .and wild animals are described in this 

 book in a simple and instructive style, capable of being understood by the 

 elder children in village schools, and by adults who are only familiar with 

 words of everyday life in the country. The book will impart to those who read 

 it an intelligent knowledge of animal life in and around a farm. The illus- 

 trations, mostly reproduced from photographs, are very fine." 



