June 4, 1914] 
up scientific work merely as a remunerative pro- 
fession; unhappily some are now induced by 
scholarships to do so, and find out their mistake 
too late. What is required is that those who 
pursue scientific work with a well-defined object, 
and with a reasonable prospect of benefiting the 
State by their efforts should receive at least the 
remuneration which they would obtain if they left 
the work undone. 
POPULAR NATURAL HISTORY.! 
(1) WE. give a hearty welcome to “The English 
Year”’—a series of charming studies in 
the Natural History of Autumn and Winter by 
W. Beach Thomas and A. K. Collet. There 
should be a shelf of these seasonable books—for 
Ostrich Displaying. From 
there is a score of them already—in every country- 
house; and we should like to see a selection of 
them in every country school. For they are the 
1 (x) ‘* The English Year. Autumn and Winter.” By W. Beach Thomas 
and A. K. Collet. Pp. ix+408+plates. (London and Edinburgh: T. C. 
and E. C. Jack, n.d.) Price ros. 6d. net. 
(2) ‘‘ Highways and Byways of the Zoological Gardens.” 
I, Pocock. Pp. xii+192+plates. 
5. net. 
(3) “‘ The Moose.” By Agnes Herbert. With 8 full-page illustrations by 
Patten Wilson. Pp. viii+248. (London: A. and C. Black, 1913.) Price 
5. net. 
x (4) ‘‘ The Bodley Head Natural History.” By E. D. Cuming. With 
illustrations by J. A. Shepherd. Vol. ii., British Birds, Passeres. Pp. 122. 
(London : John Lane, 1914.) Price 2s. net. 
(s) ‘Inthe ‘Once upon a Time’.” By Lilian Gask. Illustrated by Patten 
Wilson. Pp. 288+plates. (London: George G. Harrap and Co., n.d.) 
Price 3s. 6d. net 
(6) ‘* Moths of the Limberlost.”” With Water Colour and Photographic 
Illustrations from Life. By Gene Stratton-Porter. Pp. xiv+370. (London : 
Hodder and Stoughton, 1012.) Price ros. 6d. net. 
(7) ‘My Game-Book” By Alan R. Haig Brown. Pp. xvi+239+plates. 
(London: Witherby and Co., 1913) Price 5s. 
NO. 2327, VOL. 93] 
By Constance 
(London: A. and C. Black, 1913.) Price 
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best approaches to nature-study. The authors of 
this beautiful volume take nature as they find it— 
a moving pageant—and they discourse pleasantly 
and competently, in excellent style, on coveys of 
partridges, scattering seeds, cocoons of insects, 
migrant birds, withering leaves, fruitful hedge- 
rows, showers of gossamer, winter visitors, 
hibernation, struggle with cold, trees in winter, 
the hailing of far summer, the salmon’s journey, 
the early songs of birds, and much more besides. 
Some season-books (we hope for another volume 
of this one) are too enthusiastic, precious, and 
impressionist; others go to the opposite extreme 
of matter-of-fact-ness, and are rather dull 
““naturalist’s calendars”; but the authors have 
found an effective middle way which is admirable. 
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by Mr. A. H. Patterson. The text is enlivened 
with numerous very interesting drawings by 
A. W. Seaby who has caught the spirit of things: 
and it is adorned by a series of reproductions in 
colour of the work of Sir Alfred East, Harry 
| Becker, C. W. Furse, Buxton Knight, and Hal- 
_ dane Macfall. 
The whole book is capital value 
for its price and a credit to its publishers as well 
as to the authors and artists. We hope that it 
will have the success it deserves, and that it will 
help to stimulate the growing interest in seasonal 
natural history. 
(2) Mrs. Pocock has attempted “to carry the 
Zoological Gardens to those who are unable to 
go to them,” and if she has not achieved this en 
bloc, she has certainly succeeded with particular 
