REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES 9 
I Go a-walking. Part III. By Stream and Lake. With 20 illustrations by 
Charles Reid. T. N. Foulis. Price 6d. 
As good as its two predecessors, this part contains part of Tennyson’s Brook, 
James Montgomery’s Soliloquy of a Water-wagtail, Burns’ To the Wild-fowl, 
Izaak Walton on the Otter, and extracts from Johns on the Pied Wagtail, King- 
fisher, Heron, Sedge-warbler, Wild Duck and Teal. The accompanying illus- 
trations, perfect in their kind, include Horses and Cattle in water, Aylesbury 
and Wild Ducks, Young Teal, Swans and Cygnets, The Vole, The Badger, The 
Toad, and others. 
The Making of East Yorkshire. {A Chapter in local Geography .) By Thomas 
Sheppard. A. Brown and Sons. Price is. net. 
It is certainly a good notion that teachers should be given a simple elementary 
exposition of the geological structure and history of their district, illustrated with 
views, which they can cut out and pin up on the blackboard. Mr. Sheppard is 
fully competent to provide such a risumi of the geology of East Yorkshire. We 
would, however, venture to suggest for a future edition that geological photo- 
graphs are generally more uselul when accompanied by an outline lettered 
diagram, and that the succession of beds is taught more impressively with the 
aid of a general table of formations, and another of local subdivisions with their 
thicknesses. The Maiden-hair tree, Gingko biloba, appears as “ Ginko bioloba,” 
and the names of Phillips and Hudleston are also misspelt. 
Nelson's Homeland. By James Hooper, Illustrated by Walter Dexter, R.B.A. 
Homeland Pocket Books. 2s. 6d. net. 
It is appropriate enough that the Homeland Association, beginning a new 
series of topographical works in the centenary year of Nelson’s death, should 
head their list with a guide to Burnham Thorpe, Walsingham, and the rest of 
North Norfolk from Hunstanton to Cley-next-the-Sea. The work is as well 
done as the Handbooks have always been ; and, though no chapters are 
especially devoted to the geology, flora and fauna, these receive due notice, a 
chapter being given to the marrams. By-the-bye, the Society founded by Sir J. 
E. Smith is the Linnean, not Linntean. Modern pilgrims will be glad to have 
the account of the ancient shrine of Walsingham, which has the added charm of 
one of Mr. Dexter’s dainty illustrations. If the artist’s “ Stiffkey Cockle-women ” 
be reminiscent of Millet, he could hardly follow a better master, and the frontis- 
piece after Beechy, and the youthful portrait of the hero attributed to Gains- 
borough, are admirably reproduced. There is the usual useful map in a pocket 
in the buckram cover ; but, dainty as is the whole production, it does not seem 
so phenomenally cheap as the Association’s previous publications. 
The New State of Matter: an Address by Prof. H. Pellat. Translated by 
Edmund McClure. S.P.C.K. Price is. 
We confess to being much disappointed in this little volume in the “ Romance 
of Science ” series. It is addressed to the uninitiated, and French men of science 
are generally distinguished for lucidity. The recent new views of the constitu- 
tion of matter, form, perhaps, too large a subject for an hour’s discourse ; but, 
however that may be, we found that, whilst we proceeded with ease through the 
first half of the booklet of fifty-five pages, we then floundered deeper and deeper 
into the abstruse and unexplained, until we felt we might as well be deciphering 
hieroglyphics. Nor does the subject seem to us to be much elucidated by notes 
from Professor Sir George Darwin’s recent South African address, detached as 
they necessarily are from their context. 
An Essay on Women (An Argument in Rhyme ) very res pec tf icily dedicated to all 
the women who make men better. By Charles A. Witchell. Kegan, Paul, 
Trench, Triibner & Co. Price 25. 6d. net. 
The author of this volume of highly moral verse has very nearly plagiarised 
the title of a most flagitious set of verses by the son of an archbishop of 
Canterbury, for the technical publication of which John Wilkes was expelled 
from the House of Commons in 1764. There is a dangerous facility about Pope’s 
“ heroic ” couplets, as is proved by the ease with which Fenton and Broome 
