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Mr. MacWhirter, and Mr. W. L. Wyllie. We have had frequent occasion to 
speak of the beauty of Mr. Douglas English’s photographs of mice, Mr. Henry 
Irving’s portraits of trees, and the Messrs. Kearton’s pictures of birds ; and the 
work with pen and with camera of Mr. Marlin Duncan, Mr. John J. Ward, and 
Dr. Lockyer is well known for its excellence. Wide as is its scope, dealing as 
it does with clouds, waves, cliffs and mountains ; with trees, wild flowers, fungi 
and gardens ; with insects, fish, birds and mammals, the volume is necessarily 
incomplete. This, in fact, gives it a suggestiveness which is, perhaps, one of its 
most valuable features. Whilst Mr. English deals lovingly with our smaller 
mammals, the fo.x, the badger, the otter and the deer do not come within his 
Meanders further Down-stream. 
From “The Nature Book ” (by kind permission or Messrs. Cassell and Co.). 
limits. Mr. Irving can speak only of about a dozen trees ; and there are many 
large groups of our wild flowers in addition to those dealt with by Mr. Purefoy 
Fitzgerald. Here shown the way, the student of Nature need not lack other new 
and original subjects for his investigations. Among a prodigious wealth of interest, 
few of the articles appear to us richer in suggestiveness for profitable study than 
that of Mr. J. Lomas on “ The Romance of a River,” two of the illustrations 
to which we are permitted to reproduce. At the price at which it is published 
the book is phenomenally cheap. 
IVayside and l-Voodland Ferns : A Pocket Guide to the British Ferns, Horse- 
tails, and Club A/osses. By Edward Step. With coloured figures of every 
species, by Mabel E. Step, and 67 photographs by the Author. 6i in. x 
4J in. Pp. 137. Warne and Co. Price 6s. net. 
We have had occasion ere this to write of the excellent production of the 
series of cheap and truly pocketable guide-books of which this volume forms 
one, and also of the soundness of many of Mr. Step’s writings, and of the skill of 
his daughter’s drawings. Books on ferns abound ; but recent cheapening of 
