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The volume also possesses a sad interest to those who have 

 wandered across the veld or through the bush of South Africa. It 

 is a tale of recent time, but as regards the game, of a long ago 

 and a vanishing fauna. When Mr. Selous first visited the country 

 there was no Johannesburg, but there was a hunter's paradise ; 

 Bulawayo had not supplanted the kraal of Lobengula, and Ele- 

 phants could be found in places which will see them no more. 

 Perhaps the time has come when the colonizing march in the 

 southern part of the African continent will at least pause, and, 

 apart from local gold and diamonds, one of the poorest countries 

 in the world may be able again to exhibit its wealth in wild 

 mammals. 



The Insect Hunter's Companion. By the Eev. Joseph Gkeene, 

 M.A. Fifth edition, revised and extended by A. B. Fabn. 

 West, Newman & Co. 



Geeene's 'Insect Hunter's Companion' is one of the lesser 

 classics to the British entomologist, and this revised edition in a 

 very cheap form will doubtless procure it still more readers. Its 

 contents are so generally well known that nothing more need be 

 said than that it is indispensable to every young entomologist, 

 while older ones can still look through its pages with pleasure. 

 We have been more than once asked, when abroad, for a short 

 concise guide to aid in the collection of insects. In the future 

 this pocket volume will be the answer to that enquiry. 



