BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. 



Parents who wish to entice their children t:) become naturalists cannot do better than 

 provide them with the following essentially interesting and instructive nature books. 



Random Recollections of Woodland, Fen and Hill. 



By J. W. TUTT, F.E.S. 

 256 pp., 103 woodcuts and full page illustrations. Price 2s. 6d. 

 " Another book that invites us with no uncertain charm into the open air, and far 

 from populous towns, is Random Recollections of Woodland, Fen and Hill, though Mr. 

 Tutt's themes are of course, mainly of scientific interest, and such as appeal to the young 

 and zealous entomologist. Moths and butterflies are the objects of Mr. Tutt's open-air 

 studies, as recorded in this interesting bock, and the varied results of an old campaigner 

 among field naturalists are therein gathered. There is nothing that savours of the cabinet 

 and its pungent odours about these vivid and entertaining recollections of an experienced 

 entomologist, and much that is of interest to the general reader, with still more that is 

 ■likely to prove useful to the collector who does his own collecting." — Saturday Review, 

 February 17th, 1894. 



Woodside, Burnside, Hillside, and Marsh. 



242 pp., 50 illustrations. Price Is. 6d. 

 " How naany there are who cross the marshes without seeing a heron, a kingfisher, or 

 ■an otter, who would miss the wild duck's nest, who would take no account at all of the 

 ■caterpillars that crovfd the branches of the willow trees. It is mainly for the want of 

 training. Most of us would like to watch the jay and squirrel, the dragonfly and hawk 

 moth. There are few who cannot aj^preciate the beauty of the bee-orchis when the flower 

 is shown them, even though they may have passed it by unnoticed. The keen observer 

 who finds these things for himself is rare. ... To everyone who cares to know some- 

 thing of the delight which a little training may add to a country walk, a book like this 

 will be a real boon. It is not often the reviewer's lot to find a title' so exactly descriptive 

 of a book ; nor dees one often meet a volume containing such a wealth of rural lore. 

 Follow the writer where you will, you will find him overflowing with interest — at times, 

 perhaps, even too full of information. Mr. Tutt is at his best when he is talking of insect 

 life. . . . But although it is easy — even without considering the writer's previous 

 works — to trace his leaning towards entomology, we can also see how deeply a student of 

 one branch of natural history may become imbued with at least a liking for kindred 

 subjects, and there is almost as much of birds and flowers in the book as there is of 

 moths and butterflies. . . . His would be a captious soul who should fail to recognise 

 in this little volume an admirable companion for a country walk. It is a book from 

 which he who will, may learn what to look for, and, to some extent, how to see things for 

 himself — may, perhaps, in time be drawn away, with Nature, the dear old nurse — 

 " Into regions yet untrod ' 



And read what is still unread 



In the manuscripts of God." 

 —Daily News, August 7th, 1894. 



Rambles in Alpine Yalleys. 



Bound in cloth. 208 pp., with Maps and Photograj)hs of District. Price 3s. 6d. 



"Mr. Tutt, the editor of The Entomologist's Record, who is already favourably known 

 to the reading public by some charming works on English natural history, has now gone 

 further afield in his observations, and produced in the work before us the results of a 

 naturalist's holiday on the Italian side of the Alps. His treatment of the subject reminds 

 us, ii) some respects of Michelet's " La Montague." There is the same intense appreciation 

 of life and beauty, and the same mingling of minute scientific observation with a feeling 

 of the grandeur, mystery and sacredness of Nature as we find in the glowing pages of the 

 great French naturalist and mystic. The chapters represent rambles, not only through 

 the Piedmont Valleys, but through the varied regions of thought and knowledge which the 

 noble scenes depicted suggest to an intelligent mind. . . . Mr. Tutt has the happy 

 balance of mind which enables him to follow the study of the minute and of the sublime 

 with the same keenness of appreciation. . . . Mr. Tutt is a geologist as well as an 

 entomologist, and his interesting descriptions of plant and insect life are varied by acute 

 observations on the glacial and other forces which have contributed to the structure and 

 peculiarities of the region he was visiting. His bock is altogether a valuable addition to 

 that' happily large and increasing series ol: works which helps us at once t3 understand and 

 to enjoy Nature." — Literary World, September, 1895. 



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