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re-issue in this edition Audinet's engravings from Wale's 

 pictures, seeing that they 'are neither new, nor altogether free 

 from defects ; but it may be observed that they have been so 

 admirably printed on vellum, at the Ballantyne Press, as to give 

 them a cachet which they never had before, and so to make the 

 very best of them. 



The Hermit Crab, Eupagurus bemhardus, in Shell of Whelk 



ENCRUSTED WITH BARNACLES. 



Then we have Mr. George Lodge's pretty text-cuts of river- 

 side animals and birds, produced with a fidelity which is only 

 possible where the wood-blocks are drawn and engraved by the 

 same hand. This is a gift which very few artists possess, and 

 seeing that it obviates all risk of misinterpretation, is to be 

 valued accordingly. The Heron flying with characteristic flap of 

 wing, the Bittern cowering amongst the sedge, the Polecat which 

 loves to track the Eel at night through the wet riverside grass,* 

 the Marten which haunts the rocky and wooded glen through 

 which the trout-stream runs, the Hermit Crab which seeks 

 seclusion in the empty shell of a Whelk, and the Lark and 

 Nightingale which delight the listening ear of the fisherman, are 



* See « The Zoologist,' 1891, p. 292, 



