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Reviews.



REVIEWS.


“WILD LIFE.” *


An illustrated monthly magazine which is the outcome of the

exhibition of work by members of the Zoological Photographic Club,

which was held at the offices of the Zoological Society of London

last summer.


To those who can afford this work, it will be an interesting

and valuable addition to any collection of publications on Natural

History. It is evident that a great stride has been made in photo¬

graphy of wild creatures in their native haunts and surroundings,

and it is also evident that the photographs are taken in that way.

There is no faking and no stuffing. The mammals, birds, fish, and

insects are alive, whilst many of the reproductions of their life are

extremely artistic pictures.


The magazine was first published in January of this year, in

which number may be perhaps especially admired' the photographs

of the Little Egret in their nesting haunts in the south of Spain, by

Mr. Wm. Farren; the different poses of the British Wild Cat,

by Mr. Douglas English, who is the Editor ; the Ring Ouzel with

its nest and young ones, by Mr. Alfred Taylor.


In the letterpress too, one finds much that is interesting, and

much that is original; indeed all is written by the various photo¬

graphers, who describe what they saw when taking their pictures.


The February number of “ Wild Life” is perhaps even more

interesting than the pioneer of the work, beginning with a very

striking photograph, as a frontispiece, of one of the few apes now

left on the Rock of Gibraltar, its form profiled against the pale

mistiness of the sea, below the rock on which it is seated, apparently

admiring the view ! Mrs. Moore is the successful photographer of

this pathetically solitary and human-like figure.


Mr. A. M. Stewart’s photos, of the Fulmar Petrel in Westray

— an island of the Orkney group—are a triumph of the camera,

especially perhaps the one that shows the nesting ledges of Guille-



* Wild Life , an illustrated monthly.


Edited by DOUGLAS ENGLISH, Dudley House, Southampton Street,


London, W.C. Art Editor : JOSEPH SIMPSON.



