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(lid for Selborne, with all the improved appliances of 

 a science which has widened and deepened tenfold 

 since "W^iite's time. Mr. Gosse's " Manual of the 

 Marine Zoology of the British Isles " is, for classifi- 

 cation, by far the completest handbook extant. He 

 has contrived in it to compress more sound know- 

 ledge of vast classes of the animal kingdom than I 

 ever saw before in so small a space.* 



Miss Anne Pratt's "Things of the Sea-coast" is 

 excellent ; and still better is Professor Harvey's 

 " Sea-side Book," of which it is impossible to speak 

 too highly ; and most j)leasant it is to see a man of 

 genius and learning thus gathering the bloom of his 

 varied knowledge, to put it into a form equally suited 

 to a child and to a savant. Seldom, perhaps, has there 

 been a little book in which so vast a quantity of facts 

 have been told so gracefully, simply, without a taint 

 of pedantry or cumbrousness — an excellence which 

 is the sure and only mark of a perfect mastery of 



* But far above all these, in interest, ranks M. QuatrefageS' 

 " Rambles of a ISTaturalist " (about the Mediterranean and the 

 French Coast), translated by M. Ottd. 



