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REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES. 
Life and Sport in Hampshire. By George A. B. Dewar. With 2 coloured 
plates by A. Thorburn, and other illustrations. 9^ in. x 5I in. Pp. 274. 
Longmans. Price los. 6d. net. 
Mr. Dewar, as many readers know, has a facile pen to describe what he sees : 
he has the happiness to live in Hampshire, the sunniest county in England, the 
county of chalk downs and of the New Forest, of Gilbert White and of William 
Gilpin; and — what is more — he has the seeing eye. Author of “ The Book of 
the Dry Fly”; and one of the many editors of Walton, he is undoubtedly a 
sportsman ; like many an angler, he is attracted to the living insect ; and a 
gunner of a somewhat old-fashioned type, birds appeal to him with a manifold 
interest, in their flight, in their song, and in their migrations, an inteiest which 
he imparls to his readers. The photographic illustrations reflect the calm of an 
Adamless Fden ; and Mr. Thorburn’s beautiful water-colour drawings, of which 
we prefer that of the Orange-tip and Speedwell, are admirably reproduced. 
Meanders of a Stream. 
From “The Nature Book” (by kind permission of Messrs. Cassell and Co.). 
The Nahne Book: A Popular Description by Pen and Camera of the Delight 
and Beauties of the Open Air. Vol. i. Illustrated with coloured plates 
and reproductions from photogiaphs. 10^ in. x 7J in. Pp. 372. Cassell 
and Co. Price 12s. net. 
Tastefully bound and beautifully illustrated, this volume will make an 
acceptable |>resent and a handsome table-ornament in many a home this 
Christmas. But it is much more than this. The purely pictorial charm of 
Nature has seldom been better reproduced by the pre,ss than in the colour-prints 
after water-colour drawings by such artists as Mrs. Allingham, Mrs. Rawnsley, 
