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books, which are made up of portraits painted with 
rare and exquisite sympathy of a variety of 
creatures — mammal, bird, and reptile. 
Doubtless many would wish for Wake Robin 
to be included in the catalogue, with perhaps other 
works by John Burroughs. Certainly one would 
not like to omit Fepacton, Fresh Fields, Winter 
Sunshine, and Locusts and Wild Honey. This 
writer is always happy in his titles. At the same 
time it would not be well to have fewer than a 
hundred authors on our list. We might put down 
Burroughs' dozen little volumes as one work, and 
so get over the difficulty in that way. 
In conclusion, I will name Mrs. Martin's delight- 
ful Home Life on an Ostrich Farm, and Court- 
hope's Paradise of Birds. Having set down these 
few to make a start, I will leave each animal lover 
to add from his own reading the ninety or ninety 
odd volumes required to complete the century, and 
pass on to say a few words about these last two 
books, both of surpassing merit, one a classic, but 
in character wide as the poles apart. 
Home Life on an Ostrich Farm is all the better, 
to my way of thinking, for not being a work pro- 
fessedly about animals. Animal life receives a 
good deal of attention in it, but the various 
creatures so well and humorously described are 
