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sketches of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Parr, LL. D. and of George Eliot. Though his 
literary style leaves something to be desired, Mr. Morley has got together man)’ 
interesting facts. .Selbornians will sympathise with the sentiments of the follow- 
ing passage “ In the greenwood near my home the bullfinch is not by any 
means so rare as the goldfinch ; in fact, I have seen whole flocks of them round 
A WARWICKSHIRE LANDSCAPE. 
By Caroline Watts, from “Shakespeare’s Greenwood. ’’ 
(By permission of David Nntt^ Ksq.) 
the Coomb Farm in the early summer ; but that is scarcely a sufficient reason for 
the wholesale catching of this pretty and merry creature, whose only offence is 
that he has a fondness for tapping the buds of fruit trees. Doubtless the angry 
farmer who fires small shot at him does infinitely more damage to the tender 
buds than the bill of the bullfinch, and any harm ‘ the bully ’ may do is, I think, 
amply atoned for by the number of insects he clears from the trees.” Surely, Mr. 
Morley, Shenstone did not call us poor benighted Londoners “ Augusta’s venial 
[rfr] sons,” nor did George Eliot write of “ the lofty grained ceiling ” of Cheverel 
Manor ! The book contains eight charming illustrations, including Shakespeare’s 
bust, cottage, and birth-room and Arbury Hall, the “Cheverel Manor” of 
“ Scenes of Clerical Life,” by Miss Caroline Watts. 
North American Fauna, No. 19 : Results of a Biological Reconnoissance of the 
Yukon River Region. United States Department of Agriculture. 
This is another of those excellent little monographs issued by the American 
Government, several of which we have recently reviewed. It contains a general 
account of the region and an annotated list of its mammals, by Wilfred H. 
Osgood, illustrated by a map of Alaska, photographs of scenery and plates of 
skulls, and an annotated list of the birds by Dr. Louis B. Bishop. Five new 
species and four subspecies of mammals and three new forms of birds are described 
in this report ; but, of these twelve, only four skulls are figured. It would be 
well if figures, at least of skulls or other characteristic parts, accompanied all such 
first publications. 
Inorganic Chemistry. By Professor Raphael ^leldola, revised to date by J. 
Castell Evans, F. l.C. Fifth edition. Thomas Murby. Price 2s. 
Well may Mr. Castell Evans claim that a life of more than twenty years is 
in itself a testimonial to the original excellence of Professor Meldola’s “ Inorganic 
Chemistry,” and certainly we know of no work at anything like the price as 
comprehensive as is this manual in its present revised condition. We have here 
a succinct account of the periodic law and of the principles of spectrum analysis 
and its application to celestial as well as terrestrial bodies ; and not only do all 
the recently discovered elements find a place, but the description of the prepara- 
