BOOKS FOR YOUNG SELBORNIANS. 227 
This is, of all others, the book for a Christmas present for young Selbornians — 
the volume to give to school libraries, or for Sunday-school prizes ; one which 
cannot fail to attract and interest, and in which the eye is gratified by clear print 
and attractive pictures. The style varies — sometimes it is conversational, at others 
narrative ; but it is never childish, and so far as we can judge, never inaccurate. 
Children hate to be talked down to, and Mr. Step has steered clear of this, while 
Sundews 
he has been equally successful in avoiding the opposite extreme. We pass from 
sea to land, “ o’er moor and fell, o’er moss and torrent,” and everywhere we meet 
with some plant or insect, some beast or bird, about which we learn something 
that we did not know before, or find some attractive picture which puts an old 
friend in a new and charming light. Mr. Step is “ up to date,” and has put into 
simple form some of the most interesting of more recent discoveries. Ilis chapter 
on the sundews, for instance, gives just the account which an intelligent child will 
