80 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
as regards type and paper, and, besides being an admirable guide- 
book for aspiring tourists, enables those who stay quietly at home 
to form a very good idea of the grandeur of Alpine scenery. 
Nature cared for and Nature uncared for; a Lecture on Ornithology. 
By H. B. Hewerson. 8vo. pp. 36. London: West, 
Newman, and Co. Leeds: R. Jackson. 1879. 
To a rural audience in a remote Yorkshire village, chiefly 
known to fame as embosoming the home of the late Charles 
Waterton—a name familiar to naturalists—Mr. H. B. Hewetson 
delivered the lecture which in a printed form now lies before us. 
Although containing nothing very novel or striking, it has the 
merit of pointing out to those who may be yet unconvinced, or 
who may never haye given the subject a thought, some of the 
pleasures and advantages to be derived from a study of Natural 
History. The discourse is enlivened by a sketch of the life- 
history of three very familiar birds, whose portraits, copied from 
Bewick and Wolf, appear in the form of etchings. In advising 
people to use their powers of observation, Mr. Hewetson offers 
some sensible remarks, from which we take the following as an 
example :— 
“Tt is not the abundance of opportunities which makes men great; it is 
the use they make of few advantages. It is not the confused mass of dry 
facts which is being daily crammed into the undeveloped brains of our 
children which will make usa wiser nation. ‘This can only be obtained by 
our energies being directed towards showing them what to love and what to 
care to learn ; consulting always, as far as possible, a child’s temperament 
and inclination, and never forgetting that England’s greatness, in a large 
measure, depends for its continuance, as it has had to be indebted for its 
rise, to the brains of early dunces. * * * * It is not everybody who 
cares for birds, or stones, or shells, or butterflies, or flowers, but there is 
not one of us who can say, if he dare, that any object in Nature is beneath 
his notice, even though it may be in itself uninteresting in comparison with 
what in the scale of beauty is more lovely and admirable. It is but a part 
of one harmonious whole; a silent proof of the great Creator’s powers, as 
incomprehensible when exerted in the creation of the meanest worm that 
crawls in the dust beneath our feet, as itis in the vast ordination of myriads 
of worlds displayed to our eyes in the starry heavens, illimitable aud 
inconceivable.” 
