NOTICES OF NEW _ BOOKS. 

African Nature Notes and Reminiscences. By FRreprrick Court- 
ENEY Setous, F.Z.S. With a ‘‘Foreword”’ by President 
RoosEvELT. Macmillan & Co., Ltd. 
“Mr. Setous is the last of the big-game hunters of South 
Africa.”’ Such is the statement of President Roosevelt, and 
such is the verdict of all of us. Wealthy sportsmen may still 
find game in South-Hast Africa, but the days of the old Nimrod 
are gone. Mr. Selous, hunting in his shirt, shoes, and soft hat, 
reminds one of Gordon Cumming, and the period between these 
two great hunters of similar garb and equal love of laying low 
the mighty game, marks an era which exhibits the decline and 
fall of the great mammalian fauna of South Africa. 
In this book, much of which has been previously published 
in fragmentary contributions to different journals, Mr. Selous 
reaches nis high-water mark in zoological observation, and it 
contains bionomical monographs of several animals. As regards 
the Lion this is markedly the case, and the peculiar haunts of 
the Inyala are focused in two tersely written and highly interest- 
ing chapters. 
Of more than average importance is the chapter dealing with 
the Tsetse Fly, particularly in its connection with the Buffalo, 
and the author’s conclusions as to the interdependence of these 
two living creatures, the diminution of the one being accom- 
panied with the scarcity of the other; in other words, their 
mutual disappearance in certain once well-known fly-infested 
areas. 
But what has particularly impressed the writer of this notice 
is the experimentum crucis afforded by Mr. Selous’s observations 
made during his long sojourn in the South African veld, and in 
the bush of that region, on much of the theories of protective 
coloration and mimicry. As President Roosevelt, with his 
shrewd common sense, remarks: ‘‘ His observations illustrate 
