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AUDUBON IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND. 
Audubon and His | Journals | By | Maria R. Audubon | with 
Zodlogical and other Notes by | Elliott Coues | With Thirty-seven 
Illustrations, including Three hitherto | unpublished Bird Drawings, and 
Ten | Portraits of Audubon | In two Volumes | Volume the First [Second] | 
London | John C. Nimmo | 14, King William Street, Strand | Mpcccxevil 
[Demy 8vo. Cloth, pp. xiv. +532+22 plates, and pp. viii. +554+ 24 plates]. 
These two handsome portly volumes are full of interest, 
graphic human interest, from cover to cover, and we are laid 
under deep obligation to Miss Maria Audubon for realising her 
dream of many years and giving to the world her father’s 
journals in his own language: Partly the exigencies of space, 
Partly the fact that American ornithology lies beyond our scope, 
prevent our being able to do more than briefly indicate the 
contents. The first volume includes a biography of Audubon, 
then his European Journals, 1826-1829, after which is given his 
Labrador journal of 1833, and the commencement of the 
Missouri River Journals of 1843. These are finished in the 
Second volume, the remainder of which is occupied by what are 
called ‘Episodes.’ Which are a series of most interesting 
anecdotes, reprinted from the first three volumes of the 
‘Ornithological Biographies,’ and including descriptions of 
scenery, animals, hunting scenes, manners and customs in 
America. 
The illustrations are plentiful, and include numerous portraits 
of Audubon and of other members of his family, three hitherto 
unpublished drawings of birds, and at the end facsimiles of 
diplomas of election to various societies and academies. 
Treating the work from our own restricted standpoint, we 
are naturally interested in his European Journals of 1826-1829, 
years employed by him in visiting the principal cities and towns 
of England, Scotland, and France in search of subscribers to 
his great work. Reading these, expressed in language originally 
intended for his wife’s own eye, one obtains a vivid idea of the 
gteat American ornithologist and his flowing locks (which he 
had, much against his will, to ‘sacrifice’ when in Edinburgh), 
his vivacious and mercurial disposition, his occasional fits o 
depression, and his delight at the kindness shown him by the 
numerous friends he made. 
Warmly does he speak of the reception given him on his 
first landing in Liverpool, by the Rathbones, Roscoes, etc., 
his initial disappointment at Manchester, and how nobly that 
_ (tty retrieved its character later on by its generosity in 
