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XATURE NOTES 
Edible Snails. — Miss Ethel G. Woodd, of Glenthorne, 
Eastbourne, having bred Helix pomatia, the so-called Roman 
snail, for many years, will gladly correspond with anyone 
requiring accurate observations on its ways and life-history. 
She also has young ones for sale at 2d. each, and fat mealworms 
at yd. a hundred. 
A Correction. — On p. 137, in answer to the query on 
“ Silver Fish,” the printer has made me style the Thysanura 
“ one of the latest orders of insects.” I wrote “ one of the 
lowest orders.’’ — Ed. N . N. 
REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES. 
The Cotint ry Home, Nos. 1-3, May-July, 1908. lof x in. Messrs. Archibald 
Constable and Co. Price 6d. net, monthly. 
We congratulate our Honorary Secretary on the hrst numbers of his new 
magazine. It is convenient in form, admirably printed and illustrated, and has a 
tasteful and appropriate wrapper, whilst the names of Sir John Cockburn, Mr. 
Yo.xall, the Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, Mrs. Dukinfield Scott, Mr. Step, Mr. John 
J. Ward, Mr. A. D. Darbishire, and Mr. J. W. Odell as contributors are a 
guarantee of the excellence of its literary contents. The pictures of half-timbered 
houses, the reproduction of the brass of Sir John D’Abernon, the Exhibition 
supplement, and the photographs of water-gardens are first-rate, and the variety of 
interests to which the articles appeal should secure for the magazine a wide and 
lasting popularity. 
The Nature Book. Part I. Profusely illustrated from photographs, with 
coloured plates. lo 4 x 7J in. Pp. 32. To be completed in 24 fortnightly 
parts. Cassell and Co. Price yd. net. 
Only now could such a work as the present be produced at the price. Intro- 
duced by an article by Mr. Weaker Crane, there are papers by Douglas English 
on “The Mice of the P'ield,” by Dr. W. J. S. Lockyer on “ How to know the 
Clouds,” and by Henry Irving on “ How to know the Trees,” each illustrated by 
the writer ; one on “ How to know the Birds,” by the Rev. M. C. H. Bird, illus- 
trated by the Messrs. Kearton, and one on “ How to know the Wild Flowers,” 
by the Rev. H. Purefoy Fitzgerald, illustrated by Mr. Irving; a coloured plate 
from a water-colour by Mrs. Allingham is the first of a series to include works by 
Mrs. Rawnsley, Mr. MacWhirter, Mr. Sutton Palmer, and others ; and we are 
promised papers by Mr. John J. Ward on Insect Life, Mr. F. Martin Duncan on 
Life on the Seashore, and others. 
The Little Natmalist at the Seaside. By the Rev. Theodore Wood. Illustrated 
by G. E. Collins and J. Halliday. 5I x 4 in. Pp. 112. Ernest Nister. 
Price IS. 
The middle-aged reviewer, glancing through this dainty booklet for children, 
with its description of the sandy beach with starfish, scallop, whelk, jelly-fish 
and sea-urchin, of the muddy shore with cockle, razor-shell and lug-worm, of 
rocks and rock-pools, with limpets, barnacles and crabs, is irresistibly reminded 
of the “Common Objects of the Seashore” by Mr. Wood’s father, which was 
a favourite companion of his youth, as that of thousands of his contemporaries. 
The nursery-governess may well find room for this little book when packing up 
for the holidays. 
Nature Studies by Night and Day. By F. C. Snell. With about 90 photo- 
graphs taken direct from Nature. 7j x 5 in. Pp. 319. T. Fisher Unwin. 
Price 5s. 
Mr. Snell has established his reputation as one of the best of our Nature- 
photographers, and in this volume, while he gives us some admirable daylight 
studies, he has especially devoted himself to that flashlight work which has as yet 
