Talpa, by C. WREN HOSKYNS. 



This is a rate little volume. We don't know which to admire most, the author's 

 humour or his wisdom. He has set himself the task of illustrating, in an agreeable 

 manner, the Evils of Custom, Prejudice, and Feudalism, as they exist among agricul- 

 turists. It will create much laughter among the merry, and convey many a lesson 

 to the tiller of the soil. There are some very capital illustrations, too, embellishing 

 the volume.' ERA. 



The writer handles his subject in such a masterly manner his style is BO piquant, 

 as well as forcible; so scholarly, yet so racy his wit and his wisdom are so skilfully 

 blended he has so cleverly worked out his motto, Ridentem aicere verum, by telling 

 the truth laughingly that the reader finds himself irresistibly carried along, and he 

 and the book part not company until he has made himself master of the tale that he 

 lias to unfold. LEICESTERSHIRE MEBCUBY. 



' The author of Talpa has elicited humour, wisdom, and we had almost said ro- 

 mance, out of a clay farm. In what superficially appears the most unpromising and 

 unfertile of themes, he has found materials for a volume of such interesting and sug- 

 gestive matter as has seldom been written about agriculture. The general reader will 

 find much useful information from The Chronicles of a Clay Farm, which combines, 

 with all the interest of a modern novel, practical lessons of the first importance.' 



HEBTFOED MEBCUBT. 



'Our agricultural readers will no doubt be surprised to learn that the soundest 

 lessons in agricultural science, and yet one of the most amusing books ever published, 

 will be found with the above title ; but it is nevertheless true. . . . We tell the 

 truth when we say that Cruikshank has illustrated this work in his best style, yet the 

 illustrations are hardly so humorous as the letter-press. Pleasantry, when in good 

 taste, is an admirable set-off to a dull subject; but when it is accompanied, as in 

 Talpa, with new and startling speculations, which are so clearly defined, and bear so 

 strong an appearance of truth, that they captivate every reader, we must confess that 

 a good work has been accomplished.' LITEBPOOL STANDARD. 



By the same Author. 

 In October 1865 will be published, 



OCCASIONAL ESSAYS. 



CONTENTS. 



The Invisible World, or the Occult Powers of Creation. 



The Domain of Physical Inquiry : an Address to the Warwickshire 



Natural History Society. 



On Agriculture, its Eise and Progress in Great Britain. 

 The English Landowner. 

 The Battle Line of History, or the Influence of Battles on Human 



Progress. 



London : LONG-MANS, GEE EN, and CO. Paternoster Eow. 



