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enemy during the other, but that, on the whole, it does much more

good than harm.


The great charm of the book, however, lies in its illustrations, which

are all by Mr. Roland Green, a young artist who has done some very good

natural history work, and will, we think, soon be well to the fore in this.

There are no less that eight coloured and sixteen uncoloured plates,

and 185 text-figures. The illustrations are, in fact, the making of the

book, and form a beautiful series which alone is worth more than the



Jay Feeding Young

(From Birds One Should Know)



price charged for the complete volume. The frontispiece, a coloured

plate of Goldfinches on a thistle plant, is very charming, as is that of the

Lapwing with her young, the Great Tit ivith her brood of seven, or the

Pheasant in covert, while that of a collection of fifteen heads of birds

in colours is decidedly useful to the young student. The uncoloured

plates, some in half-tone and others in line-work, are also of high quality,

as are the text-figures, which are very generously distributed throughout

every page of the letterpress.



