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present Editor, Thomas Bell (himself an able naturalist, and occupier, 
too, of White’s tenement at Selborne for a period of more than thirty 
years)? Within this studious retirement, and with access to 
documents and letters such as no one else could command, Bell 
has been enabled to write a brief memoir of White, which, un- 
eventful as the life of such a student must needs be, will yet be 
read with interest by all who cherish every scrap of information 
concerning one who gave to an obscure village in Hampshire, where 
he lived and died, a name and fame such as but for his labours 
it had never possessed. To this memoir succeeds the Natural 
History and Antiquities of Selborne, with notes sparingly because 
judiciously appended by the Editor from his own and the personal 
observation of others. And so ends vol. i., complete, so far as it 
goes, in itself. 
The contents of the next volume are entirely new ; and to these 
we beg more especially to direct the attention of our readers. They 
consist, to begin with, of the correspondence of Gilbert White with 
his brother John, a clergyman like himself, and bound to him by a 
peculiar sympathy, as being himself a lover of natural history, and 
engaged for many years in preparing a work on that of Gibraltar 
and its neighbourhood—though this, it is to be regretted, was never 
published. To these letters follow several others that were ex- 
changed between the same brother and Linneus ; and last of all an ex- 
tensive correspondence of Gilbert White with his family, and miscel- 
laneous letters addressed to many of his most intimate friends. When 
we add that the whole correspondence occupies some 303 pages of 
vol. ii. we have said enough to indicate the abundance of novel 
information that will be there met with, and much which is specially 
interesting as having reference to the favourite pursuits of our author. 
“On the Sense of Hearing in Fishes,” by Gilbert White, is the title 
of the next article in vol. ii., andis now published for the first time. 
Out of three of White’s sermons in the possession of Mr. Bell, he 
has thought proper to select one as giving us, he says, “ a fair 
illustration of the general tone of his parochial instruction, and as 
an example of the ordinary character of the best village sermons of 
the period.” 
Lastly, as affording a curious glimpse into the expenses of living 
at that period, we have the account-book kept by White of moneys 
spent as well as received during the terms of his proctorship &e. at 
Oxford during the years 1752 to 1754. With the quaint entries here 
made, and the odd manner in which the figures are disposed, the 
student of by-gone data will find much that may furnish food for 
reflection as well as amusement at the same time. We conclude 
our list of White’s writings with his ‘“‘Garden Kalender” and a 
“ Description of Dufour’s Fire-escape,’ which last, though never 
perhaps intended for publication, yet shows us that our author 
was fully alive to any improvement in the useful arts of life. 
A list of the more noteworthy animals and plants observed in Sel- 
borne and its neighbourhood is appended by the Editor. William 
