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have upwards of fifty chapters dealing with birds, mice, deer, foxes, otters, 
badgers and such inhabitants of truly wild spots. There is nothing to indicate 
what sh.are each auther had in the work, neither is there any index, as in a book 
referring to so many animals there should have been. *‘ Fungi ” is not a noun 
singular, though it is treated as such on p. 5 ; but in general there is no fault to 
find with the way in which much obviously first-hand observation is conveyed to 
the reader. The illustrations, two of which we are able, by the courtesy of tne 
publisher, to reproduce, are by several different photographers, but maintain a 
very high level of excellence. To the townsman such a volume as this, with its 
breezy air of rural solitudes, is particularly refreshing. 
