436 Reviews and Book Notices. 
CHILDRENS BOOKS. 
The ‘ Look-about-you’ Nature Book, by T. W. Hoare and others. 
T. C. & E. C. Jack, Edinburgh, 1907, 5/- net. In this thick volume are 
bound together seven of Messrs. Jack’s well known shilling ‘ Look-about- 
you’ nature study books, which are specially adapted for young readers. 
They are in simple language, in large clear type, and beautifully illustrated. 
They deal with all manner of subjects, and will certainly prove an attraction 
to juveniles. 
_ The Fairy-Land of Living Things, by R. Kearton. Cassell & Co. 
1907. 182 pp., 3/6. In this volume the brothers Kearton, by pen and 
picture, have produced a volume specially for young readers. It is wel] 
Dandelion Heads. 
printed, and contains nearly 200 illustrations, all of which are good. It is 
very suitable for boys in the upper standards at school, and would make a 
useful prize. One of the illustrations we are kindly permitted to reproduce. 
The Fairyland of Nature, by Wood Smith. London: S. W: 
Partridge & Co. 126 pp., Cloth 1/- This book contains a number otf 
essays, written in rather school-boy phraseology, upon a variety of subjects» 
such as ‘The Mammoth Cave,’ ‘ Flesh Eating-Plants,’ ‘ A Piece of Sponge,’ 
etc. Each appears to have been written by the author immediately after he 
had read something upon the subject elsewhere. Asa sample of the author's 
style, we read (p. 64), ‘From six to twelve trucks, each containing usually 
half-a-ton of coal, at a time are taken by a boy called a “driver,” with 
horse, into a part of the mine called the ““Station,’ where he exchanges the 
empties for full trucks.’ There are several illustrations, mostly ancient, 
one (p. 67) is upside down, and another (p. 62) shows ‘a stem of a palm-tree 
found in coal seams.’ But the book is remarkably cheap at one shilling. 
Cremation: The planning of Crematoria and Columbaria is the 
title of a pamphlet (A. C. Freeman, 72, Finsbury Pavement, E.C., 
20 pp., 1/-). The address was originally read to the Society of Architects, 
and contains much useful information, as well as some interesting designs. 
It is surprising how few Crematoria there are in Britain to-day—the ancient 
Britains, Romans, and Saxons all taught us the proper way to dispose of 
the dead ; but in this present century of prejudices we are too slow to learn. 
We notice from Mr. Freeman's pamphlet that the Hull Crematorium is of the 
early perpendicular style, freely treated. It’s a way architects have in Hull. 
Naturalist, 
