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fatiguing day, will walk his twenty miles that he 

 may see a rare insect or plant. Unfortunately, 

 many of these have no one to direct their studies, 

 nor opportunities of allowing others to share the 

 pleasures their pains bring, as in the case of the 

 authors of the work before us. We congratulate 

 them, for can we not, in such a work as this, fol- 

 low them through their adventures and dangers, 

 and see the localities portrayed in their pictures, 

 spots we have longed to see ? Every page shows 



fully, we soon feel wonder at the patience, 

 judgment and pains which must have been 

 expended upon their achievement. As stated by 

 the writer of this work, " the best pictures seem 

 to have a fatal knack of slipping from the grasp of 

 the natural-history photographer. The man who 

 essays the task of photographing a wild bird in its 

 native haunts, for instance, soon begins to think 

 that, if he has not succeeded in solving the mystery 

 of perpetual motion, he has discovered a creature 



1 i.p. Clii 1 



ll'ii* Nalurt uml a Camera," by Richard Ktarlon.) 



Kcarton to lie an ,v er, and 



whether it be ibe • between development 



Kildan's ankle and that of tin; town living 

 .mIc mimicr) ol 1 J 1 »- 1 r surround 

 .tic young birds, we find the same 

 ..'fulness <■ simple Uu 



thai given ir. 



in his book. Mr ' lierry Kcarton h 1 

 graph* are generally very clever, and in 

 cases admirable When v.c examine them < arc 



possessing the Becret." By the courtesy of the 



authoi and the publishers, we reproduce a plate 



bool showing Mr. 1 'berry Keai 11 in 



iding a big clifi with camera Blung to bis 



back. He may l» seen al the righl band 



ol iin: r lin :,. irtlj aftei hi bad stai led on his 



mi 1 a pii lure ol a "'-.i in an al Bl 



inaccessible position, To naturalists generally, 

 and to ornithologi itspartii ularly, Messrs. Keartons' 



rill be 11 ontinual source ol fasi Ination 



