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black head and throat, his white cheeks and grey breast. But it 
is the cole tit, and what is more, in making the discovery, the 
fact is forced on the mind that the day is very warm and that the 
journey hither was to find a cooling shade. 
W'.\LTER Johnson. 
Battersea. 
REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES. 
The Nalural History and Antiquities of Selborne. By Gilbert White. Edited, 
with an Introduction and Notes by L. C. Miall, F.R.S., and. W. Warde 
Fowler, M.A. Methuen and Co. Price 6s. 
Yet another edition of the immortal classic, and still one for which we 
cannot say that there was not room. With a plain business-like binding, good 
paper and clear type, but without illustrations, this edition includes the text of 
the “Antiquities,” hitherto confined to more costly versions, and the fullest index 
to the work which we remember to have seen, and yet weighs little more than 
eighteen ounces. There are some statements in the Introduction, such as that 
White was born at the Wakes, which would not have been made had the editors 
seen Mr. Holt White’s “ Life and Letters,” and we think that in that case Mr. 
\Varde Fow’ler might have modified his strictures on White as a pluralist living 
“ in a somewhat indolent comfort.” We cannot agree with Professor Miall when 
(p. xxix. ) he deprecates the drawing up of registers, preferring “to learn why 
birds, insects and flowers observe particular seasons,” since assuredly we must 
have first a wide basis of carefully ascertained facts upon which to generalise. It 
is, for instance, only when we have such figures as those laboriously compiled by 
Mr. Preston during twenty-five years at Marlborough that we can apply General 
Strachey’s principle of “day-degrees” to elucidate the physiological requirements 
of species. Mr. Warde Fowler contributes a valuable critique on White’s view 
of the migration of birds, and, in addition to a judicious selection from the notes 
of their predecessors, the editors are responsible for some excellent original anno- 
tations, especially dealing with dew-ponds, honey-dew, glow-worms, and volcanic 
dust. 
Pilgrimaoe of the Whitefriars Club to Selborne, Saturday, May l8, 1901. By 
R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.R.S. Privately Printed. 
We hope we are not guilty of any breach of confidence in thus publicly calling 
attention to an excellent, but privately' printed, brochure by that Selbornian 
enthusiast, Mr. Bowdler Sharpe, to whom the world has been recently indebted 
for a most sumptuous edition of White’s work, and who has himself been carrying 
on some excavations at Selborne Priory. Though not occupying a dozen pages 
this pamphlet is an inimitable itinerary chock-full of information. We notice 
with surprise that the writer quotes without comment White’s reference of the 
church to the time of Henry \TL, though no doubt the description of “Peter 
de Rupibus” as Chancellor “ under King Henry I.” is merely an uncorrected 
error of the press. 
Field- Path Rambles, Series XX., IVest Kent Appendix, No. 4, Through the 
Kentish Hop-lands. By Walker Miles. Illustrated with Medway Pictures 
from Photos, by Mr. A. Bedding. R. E. Taylor and Sons. Price is. And 
Series XXIL, Cante> bury and Kent Coast Series: Part L, Ramsgate, Mar- 
gate, Broadstairs, Sandwich, Canterbury, &c. With 17 illustrations. Same 
author and publisher. Price 6d. 
We need do no more than announce the publication of these two further 
instalments of this excellently conceived and as excellently executed series. Mr. 
Bedding’s lovely views serve to whet our appetites, while the author furnishes his 
usual lucid and matter-of-fact itineraries, illustrated in each case by a sketch 
railway-map. We gladly notice a more liberal allowance of antiquarian notes 
than in former series, and when we call attention to the facts that one little 
