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NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS. 



Red Deer.— Natural History, by the Rev. H. A. Macpherson; 

 Deer-Stalking, by Cameron of Lochiel ; Stag-Hunting, by 

 Viscount Ebrington; Cookery, by Alexander Innes 

 Shand. Longmans, Green & Co. 189G. 



The Fur and Feather Series with this volume maintain 

 their standard of excellence in Natural History and Sport. In 

 fact, one great merit of these volumes is to show how sport and 

 natural history should be combined, and not divorced as is so 

 frequently the case. Of course there is no necessity for the 

 naturalist to be a sportsman, though every field naturalist has 

 some of the spirit and ardour that pertain to that pursuit ; but 

 there is every reason for the sportsman to be — as he often is— an 

 observant naturalist, and his opportunities are great. To readers 

 of 'The Zoologist' the principal interest will be found in the 

 contribution by Mr. Macpherson, who in delightful phraseology 

 that recalls the scenes among which the Red-deer is found, gives 

 us a local narrative of the life of the animal. 



As our author remarks, the history of the wild Red-deer 

 (Cervus elaphus) is closely interwoven with our national life, 

 and we may well sigh for the times when " The Weald of Kent 

 was no less the haunt of well-furnished hinds than the waste lands 

 of Lancashire, or the more distant solitudes of central Scotland." 

 Much has been written on the Irish deer, descriptive justice has 

 been done to the English and Scotch deer, but, as we read, 

 "Curiously enough, no one except the writer himself has 

 attempted the life of the stag upon the face of the mist-wrapped 

 hills of the English Lake district. In the forest of Martindale, 

 situated in the very midst of this Lake-land, the deer "which once 

 roamed from the shores of the North Sea to the red sandstone 

 cliffs that break the swell of the Irish Channel, have for many 

 years past found their only northern sanctuary," and as existing 

 in this haven Mr. Macpherson tells the tale of their lives. 



