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Last Hours with Nature. By Eliza Brightwen, edited by W. H. Chesson. 
Illustrated. 7 ^ x 5 in. Pp. 223. T. Fisher Unwin. Price 2S. 6d. net. 
The many admirers of the popular but accurate works of out late Vice- 
President, Mrs. Brightwen, will be glad to have this collection of papers by her, 
most of which have appeared either in Nature Notes or The Girl's Own Paper. 
The diaries referring to a tour made by Mr. and Mrs. Brightwen in 1870, and 
to the Natural-History observations of the latter, 1896, both of which are freely 
illustrated by Mrs. Brightwen herself, are peculiarly vivid and varied in their 
interest. The editor has done his work with scrupulous care ; and we are glad 
to see that he promises us another volume in which none of the contents of this 
one will be included, and which is to be entitled “ The Life and Thoughts of 
a Naturalist.” 
Our Woodlands, Heaths and Hedges : A Popular Description of British Trees, 
Shrubs, JVild Fruits, &rc., with Notices of their Insect Inhabitants. By 
W. F. Coleman. Illustrated by the author. New edition, 7f x 5 in. 
Pp. 140. Routledge. Price is. 
This cheap handbook, originally designed as a companion to the late Rev. 
J. G. Wood’s “Common Objects of the Country,” has, we are informed on the 
title-page, been entirely re-set. The list of trees and shrubs with which it deals 
in brief fashion is fairly comprehensive, and short technical descriptions, including 
the entirely unnecessary Linnrean classification, are appended as footnotes. A 
lengthy list of Lepidoptera is given, grouped under the names of the trees on 
which they feed. 
Received : Board of Agriculture and Fisheries Leaflets, No. 188, Fumiga- 
tion with Hydrocyanic Acid Gas, and No. 204, Apple Tree Mildew (Spharotheca 
inali)\ The British Institute of .Social Service, Report for 1907; National 
Conference of Guilds of Health, February 25, Report ; The American Botanist 
for January ; The Victorian Naturalist for March ; The fournal of Horticulture 
for March and April, and The Naturalist, The Irish Naturalist, British Birds, 
The Animals' Friend, The Agricultural Economist, and The Estate Magazine 
for April. 
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