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admirably complete guide to the district. This comprises Godsione, Westerham, 
Crowhurst, Hever and Cowden, as well as the places named in the title. These 
handbooks are for the resident visitor, or leisurely tourist, and may be said to 
supplement Mr. Walker Miles’ ramblers’ guides. An ordinary coat pocket 
would carry both. By the courtesy of the Association we are enabled to repro- 
duce the picture of that fine type of an old English house, Crowhurst Place, 
which forms the frontispiece to the book. 
The Homeland Handbooks : Minehead, Porlock and Dnnsler, with iheir Surround- 
ings. By C. E. Barter. Homeland Association. Price 6d. net. 
This guide to “ the sea board of Exmoor” includes a transcript of the i-inch 
Ordnance map of the district, special articles on the fishing, stag-, fox- and hare- 
hunting and golf of the district, written by local authorities, four plates and more 
than thirty other thoroughly artistic illustrations. It runs to more than a hundred 
pages, and whilst containing plenty of history, archaeology and architecture, is 
equally practical on such matters as routes. Miss Barter also provides that most 
unusual feature in a local guide-book — a list of the more interesting plants of the 
neighbourhood, with the scientific names all correctly spelt ! Truly it is a marvel- 
lous volume for sixpence 1 
IViggen and Lake's Popular Guide to Louth, Mablethorpe, Sutlon-on-Sea, Alford, 
and the Villages. Bouth : Wiggen and Bake. Price id. 
We have received two slightly differing issues of this truly remarkable 
enterprise. Mr. C. S. Carter, Curator of the Museum of the Bouth Antiquarian 
and Naturalists’ Society, has furnished notes on the history, antiquities and 
natural history of the district ; and, if the information is rather disjointed and too 
intermingled with advertisements, it is a great boon, no doubt, to many a tourist 
to have a guide-book for a penny. We have paid six times the price for an 
inferior production. 
Nature Study (Manchester, New Hampshire) for May contains an interesting 
article by Stephen D. Parrish, entitled “A Mediaeval Naturalist,” dealing with 
Philipe de Ttaun, author of the Bestiarius. 
Our Animal Friends for July contains a paper by William Henry Shelton, 
entitled “ Something about Animals in the Seventeenth Century,” which gives a 
brief account of Topsell’s delightful “ Historie of Foure-footed Beastes." 
The Amateur Photographer for July 28 contains a short illustrated article by 
Mr. F. Martin-Duncan, on the microphotography of Sea-weeds. 
Received : Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden, vol. 3, No. 10 ; 
The American Botanist for June ; The Plant World and The Victorian Naturalist 
for July; The Collector's Illustrated Circular for July 9; and The Naturalist, 
The Irish Naturalist, Nature Study (Bockwood), The Animals Friend, The 
Animal World, The Humanitarian, The Agricultural Economist, The Estate 
Magazine, and The Commonwealth for August. 
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 
162 . Hedgehog. — I really think there is nothing a hedgehog will not in- 
vestigate in the way of food, and, in my small experience of them, eat. I have 
known them eat a piece of apple jam, which, being hard, I had thrown out for 
the birds one morning, and on hearing a funny little rasping noise, I looked out 
and saw a hedgehog eating it. About a month ago I was sitting reading one 
night late by the open window, and on the verandah outside was a plate con- 
taining fish and puppy biscuits soaked for a stray cat who had taken up its abode 
in the garden. Hearing a great rattling of the plate on the tiles of the verandah 
floor, I went to see what it was, and there was a hedgehog in the plate, greatly 
enjoying the mixture, while the “stray” longingly regarded, but did not venture 
