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upon this amateurish error by such superior persons as the late Mr. Grant Allen 
— to be reminded that Linnieus also held this opinion. The brochure, which no 
thorough-going .Selbornian can be without, is excellently printed ; but half-a-crown 
net is a high price for thirty-two pages and seven photographic plates. 
The Fairyland of Living Things. By Richard Kearton. 6i ins. x 4^ ins., 
pp. 182. With nearly 140 Illustrations from Photographs. Messrs. Cassell 
and Co. Price 3s. 6d. 
Our children now look forward regularly to a Christmas Natural History- 
book from Mr. Kearton ; and, with the help of his brother’s camera, he certainly 
Fai.i.ow Dekr. 
From *■ The Fairyland of Living Thincs” (by kind permission of 
Messrs. Cas>ell and Co.). 
never disappoints e.xpeclation. Though birds, as usual, receive the most atten- 
tion, mamnrals, snakes, lizaids, amphibians, plants and insects, exemplified by 
British species, ate here each dealt with in turn. Though varying nruch in 
