BY THE SAME AUTHOR. 



which he has great power in describing." Christian Remembrancer, 

 July, 1853. 



"Mr. Gosse communicates knowledge in a mode peculiarly attractive; 

 with precision enough to satisfy the most learned, and with eloquence 

 enough to excite the most apathetic .... His ' pen-pictures ' of the scenery 

 of North Devon are such charming morceaux that we could wish they had 

 occupied a larger space in the volume, while over all his descriptions .... 

 is breathed a spirit of piety so pure and fervent .... that we rise from its 

 pages better, it may be hoped, as well as wiser than before." Globe, 

 July 14, 1853. 



"This pleasing and instructive work is not a systematic treatise on 

 zoology, but a consecutive narrative. In this winning guise the author has 

 endeavoured to elucidate some of the most wonderful mysteries of the 

 creation .... The plates are executed with much artistic skill, and the 

 work is in the highest degree attractive and instructive." Britannia, 

 July 9, 1853. 



" Mr. Gosse has, with unusual felicity, combined the popular with the 

 scientific." English Churchman, Aug. 11, 1853. 



" A highly useful seaside companion." Gardener's Chronicle, July 23, 1853. 



"We shall do our readers a service at this season, when so many are 

 seeking health and relaxation by the sea-shore, by directing their attention 

 to this very pleasing and useful work .... The book is full of genial and 

 graphic descriptions of marine animals, interspersed with an abundance of 

 carefully made and detailed scientific observations ; particularly as regards 

 the Polypes and Medusae. Mr. Gosse gives some of the best descriptions of 

 the peculiar thread-cells of these animals we have met with." Annals of 

 Nat. History, Sept. 1853. 



" The charming book now before us ... The lively pages of this graphic 

 and well-illustrated volume . . . . We know of no book where that beautiful 

 family the Sea Anemones are more graphically described and brought 

 before the eye of the reader." Fraser's Magazine, Oct. 1853. 



" This charming volume, which we so strongly recommend to our readers 

 .... largely enters into the private history [of the Sea Anemones and 

 other Zoophytes], and to the attractions of an engaging style and healthy 

 piety, adds the accompaniment of elaborately coloured drawings of the 

 animals themselves." Leisure Hour, Feb. 9, 1854. 



" Scarcely have we pronounced a most favourable opinion of Mr. Gosse's 

 ' Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica ' than we are called upon to review another 

 book from the same pen, equally beautiful, equally amusing, and equally 

 instructive ..... This is a fit companion to the 'Sojourn;' like that, it is 

 a series of pictures which it must delight the lover of nature to look upon 

 .... the animals of the sea are here revealed to us in all their most attrac- 

 tive forms." Zoologist, Oct. 1853. 



previous character of its talented 

 1854. 



"The present will ably support the 

 author." Natural History Review, Jan. 



LONDON: JOHN VAN VOORST, 1, PATERNOSTER ROW. 



