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NATURE NOTES. 
appreciate of these insect-eating plants, and it is accompanied by an excellent illus- 
tration, which the kindness of the publishers enables us to reproduce. 
On the same shelf in the school library should stand an old friend who comes 
to us in a new dress — Mrs. Brightwen’s Wild Nature Won by Kindness. In this 
Magazine for 1890 (p. 1 59), we reviewed this work on its first appearance at some 
The Robin. 
length, and recommended it as strongly as we could. It now appears in a cheaper 
form — in an elegant stiff paper wrapper at is. — and in a suitable cloth cover at 2s. 
In other respects the book is unaltered ; it contains all the original illustrations, 
two of which we here reproduce, and is printed on good paper, forming a volume 
Starlings. 
of 230 pages. Mr. Fisher Unwin, the publisher, will, we trust, have a large 
demand for this re-issue in both its forms, and many homes, of poor as well as rich, 
will, we hope, be made the happier for it this coming Christmas. 
Messrs. S. W. Partridge send us a re-issue, at 2S. , of Animals and their Young, 
the chief value of which lies in the excellent illustrations, twenty-four in number, 
by Mr. Harrison Weir. The letterpress, by Harland Coultas, might be re-written 
with advantage ; the pictures could hardly be better. 
Chapters in Popular Natural History, by Sir John Lubbock (National Society), 
is a tvpe of advanced reading-book for use in elementary and higher schools, of 
which" we should be glad to see more examples. Sir John is at his best among 
