REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES. 
Natu7-e in Downlatid. By W. II. Hudson. Longmans. Price los. 6d. net. 
“ Though I have now travelled the Susse.x Downs upwards of thirty years, 
yet I still investigate that chain of majestic mountains with fresh admiration year 
by year, and I think I see new beauties each time I traverse it.” So wrote 
Gilbert White, and the present writer could say the same and is not, therefore, 
surprised that a new comer such as Mr. Hudson, well known for his keen 
appreciation of the beauties of wild nature, should be fired with the same 
enthusiasm and determine to write a book. Often have we, more humble in 
intent, resolved to make a tour of these same downs from end to end, and 
assuredly there is yet much more to be said, especially from the archajological 
Richard Jefferies’s Cottage at Goring, Sussex. 
standpoint, which is obviously foreign to the title of Mr. Hudson’s work. A 
Better interpreter of the natural charm of the downs than Mr. Hudson could 
hardly be. If Richard Jefferies had continued to inhabit in the flesh that cottage 
at Goring, from which Mr. Hudson writes his opening chapter, we might well 
have had a picture of more studied minuteness of detail ; for we are inclined 
at times to feel a little dipatisfied with Mr. Hudson on this question of detail. 
Thinking of a picture of Goodwood, by Mr. Alfred Parsons, in his earlier manner, 
we turn up the reference “ Flora of the Downs,” in the index to the present 
work and find it sketched in the fashionable impressionist style rather than with 
informing detail. Iri short, Mr. Hudson writes as the charmed visitor and not, 
as he did when dealing with the Argentine, as the enamoured resident. As a 
broad treatment, however, of a most attractive theme, his work is well-nigh 
inimitable; nor could his pen have found a happier accompanyist than the pencil 
of Mr. McCormick. The most serious fault, indeed, which we have to find with 
