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REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 



OLD BINQLEY. 



Mr. Harry Speig'ht's ' Chronicles and Stories of Old Bing•le^■/ 

 has reached a fourth edition and is sold at a reduced price (2s., 

 Elliot Stock, London). A book of 417 pages, with 100 illustra- 

 tions, cannot be dear at that price ; but when it is the product 

 of the pen of Mr. Speight, whose care for accuracy and ability 

 to write is so well known, its cheapness is simply astonishing. 

 Throughout the work its author has been careful to present the 

 most recent discoveries before his readers, and towards this 



Druid's Altar, Bingley. 



end has taken full advantage of the records published in * The 

 Naturalist.' In addition to the portion relating to the history 

 of the parish, there are notes on the geology, birds, plants, etc., 

 of the district, items of particular interest to the readers of this 

 journal. That relating to Bingley during the 'Ice Ag'e' presents 

 a summary of the glacial evidences in the area, though nowadays 

 the astronomical theory of the cause of the Ice Age is not generally 

 accepted. We are permitted to reproduce one of the numerous 

 illustrations. 







Notes of an East Coast Naturalist. By Arthur H. Patterson. 



Methuen & Co. Os. Pag-es xii. -f 304. 



In this woi k Mr. Patterson gives the result of his twenty-five years' 

 work amongst iho birds and fishes of Norfolk. In it will be found a mass 

 of valuable records and observations — which will be of '•ervice to others 



Naturalist, 



