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this correspondence should have been printed. It is never 

 brilliant, and only just misses the standard of common-place. 

 Mr. Mulso appears to have been a very ordinary man in holy 

 orders, of good education, as befits a Church of England clergy- 

 man, and with a constant ambition for preferment. As a letter- 

 writer he had no imagination, as a clergyman we should con- 

 sider him a failure, and to natural history quite a stranger. 

 It is a calamity that the letters Gilbert White sent him should 

 have been destroyed, for what could he have written to interest 

 Mr. Mulso ? The correspondence probably provided the relaxa- 

 tion that most men feel in the possession of a friend who cannot 

 talk " shop." To a novelist requiring a perfect study of an old- 

 time cleric, this book should be invaluable. 



The Douglas English Nature Books. Part I. Some Smaller 

 British Mammals, by Douglas English, B.A. Part II. 

 Photographs of Bird Life, by B. B. Lodge. S. H. Bous- 

 field & Co. 



This series of small and low-priced books is intended for the 

 nature lover. Each part contains one hundred reproductions of 

 photographs taken from life, and we all know Mr. Lodge's exploits 

 in that field. There are also a series of notes on the species 

 illustrated in each part. The notes are evidently of a modest 

 nature, and adapted for one little versed in ornithology, but the 

 photographic studies appeal to all. 



