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REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES. 
Nature's Carol Singers. By Richard Keartoii. 5 inches x yi,' inches, 251 pages, 
numerous illustrations. Cassell and Co. Price 6s. net. ^ 
In welcoming Mr. Kearton’s latest book, we may explain that “ Nature s 
Carol Singers,” for the present purpose, are five and forty more or less familiar 
British birds, and that charming descriptions are given of their habits and 
manners. It goes without saying that there are many fine photographic illustra- 
tions both of the songsters and their nests ; while, in addition, there is given to 
each chapter a pretty head piece, which is usually a flower, and a tail piece, 
showing some delightful country view. Here and there we notice the name of 
Figure 3. — Female Ring Ouzel Covering Young in Nest during 
A Shower of Rain. 
(From “ Nature’s Carol Singers,” by the courtesy of Messrs. Cassell and Co.) 
Gilbert White, but the book really consists of Mr. Kearton’s own observations, 
and lucky will be the boy or girl who receives a copy of it as a present. We 
may take this opportunity of alluding to the vagaries of the modern block maker, 
or the individual who is responsible for what we believe is known as their 
“setting.” While congratulating those concerned on the efforts which break 
the formal lines bounding many pictures, and which are particularly successful 
in “ Nature’s Carol Singers,” we cannot too strongly condemn the taste which 
allows anyone to decorate some of Mr. Kearton’s masterpieces with frames which 
seem in a way to combine the characters of a tombstone and cheap wall paper. 
