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numerous, are such beautiful fruits of observation that we should be loth to be 
without them. After all, every school may not have the good fortune to witness 
the hatching from its membranous egg of that lovely little chain of animated 
silver, a young blind-worm, such as is represented in the figure which we are 
allowed to reproduce here. Recognising as we do that this book occupies a 
unique position among school manuals, we ansiously await its completion. 
ll'te Tim'roin Beasties. By Douglas English. With 150 illustrations from his 
Photographs of Living Creatures. Bousfield and Co. Price 5s. net. 
This is a remarkably cheap book ; but that is its least recommendation. It 
also achieves originality amid the host of volumes published of late on Nature- 
photography ; for Mr. English chooses as subjects for his most skilful camera 
“rats and mice and such small deer,” the Purple Emperor and other butterflies, 
newts, squirrels, moles and hedgehogs. In the nine stories he tells he includes one 
specially devoted to the tiny Harvest Mouse that Gilbert White added to our British 
fauna, and an “apology of the House-Sparrow.” We notice also that he makes 
the Grass Snake say, “ I can swing back my head and flatten the nape of my neck. 
The Harvest-Mouse. (From “Wee Tim’rous Beasties,” by kind permission 
of Messrs. Bousfield and Co.) 
as well as any deadly adder,” while Messrs. Davenport Hill and Webb, in the 
volume noticed above, call attention to the same habit also in the Smooth Snake. 
Speaking of the eyes of the dormouse, Mr. English writes, “ Nor pen nor camera 
can present them. Imagine a black pearl imprisoning a diamond; imagine a 
dewdrop trembling on polished jet ; add to these beauties life, and you will have 
the dormouse eye ” ; and yet, so far as it can be done, his camera has in this 
accomplished the impossible. 
Wild Nature's Ways. By R. Kearton. With 200 illustrations from Photographs 
taken direct from Nature, by Cherry and Richard Kearton. Cassell and Co. 
Price los. 6d. 
Nothing could better illustrate the service which the Messrs. Kearton and 
their followers have done to science in the matter of the faithful representation of 
