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for many years only able to take exercise in a bath-chair ; and the work is pre- 
faced by an appreciative introduction which must have been almost the last 
literary work of Dr. Creighton, whose able pen is now for ever stilled. All 
Crested Pelican. 
(From a photo by the Duchess of Bedford. By kind permission of Messrs. 
Smith Elder & Co., from “ Lord Lilford.”) 
British students of ornithology know how Lord Lilford’s zealous interest and 
unstinting purse were ever at the service of their science, and they will be glad 
to possess this record, largely told by his own letters, of his unselfish life. The 
work is copiously illustrated with beautiful portraits of the birds at Lilford Hall, 
one of which we are able, by the kindness of Messrs. Smith Elder and Co., to 
reproduce. 
Our Bh'd Frieuds .* u Book for all Boys and Gjrls, By Richard Kearton, F.Z.S. 
With 100 Illustrations from photographs by C. Kearton. Cassell and Co., 
1900. 
No work by the Messrs. Kearton requires commendation for patient skill in 
the collection of facts or for the charm of the most perfect of photographs direct 
from Nature. In saying, however, that the present work is in every way as good 
as its predecessors, we would like to protect the author and artist from the |itlc 
they have chosen by explaining that it is by no means only “ boys and girls,” in 
the usual senses of those words, who can derive much pleasure and instruction 
from “ Our Bird Friends.” Though it makes no pretence to be a formal treatise 
on ornithology, and though it deals in part with those “ remarkable nests ” of 
