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their owners and patrons ; but, as we have intimated, Miss Winslow is nothing 
if she is not thorough ; and seeing that there is an entire chapter devoted to 
“ Cats in England,” we, at any rate, have no reason to complain. Nor is the 
anecdotal part — charming and brightly told as are all Miss Winslow’s anecdotes — 
by any means the chief or the most important matter in this bulky volume of 
nearly 300 pages. There are chapters on the “ Origin of Cats,” “ Historic Cats,” 
the treatment of cats in disease, even the mode of training up a kitten in the way 
he should go ; the whole being lavishly illustrated with portraits (taken from 
photographs) of some scores of beautiful or rare specimens of these spoilt children 
of Nature and gracious companions of our fireside, to whom our greatest living 
poet has but lately addressed these words of tenderly sympathetic insight : — 
“ Dogs may fawn on all and some. 
As they come. 
You, a friend of loftier mind. 
Answer friends alone in kind. 
Just your foot upon my hand 
Softly bids it understand.” 
We have nothing but praise for this most entertaining and instructive book. 
Woodland, Fieui and Shore: Wild Nature depicted with pen and camera. By 
Oliver G. Pike. With two coloured plates and loi photographs of birds, 
animals, and insects, taken direct from Nature by the author. Religious 
Tract Society. 5s. net. 
Any one who has studied ever so briefly the economy of the poultry-yard 
must have noticed how a hen having found some delicate morsel of grain or other 
food hastens to announce her discovery to the whole world within clucking 
distance. We have, however, been as yet unable to decide whether she does so 
from motives of the purest and most exalted altruism, or from that superabundant 
energy to which Mr. Wallace attributes so much in his theory of evolution. 
Similarly, we are uncertain as to the exact motive which impels each new convert 
to the most modern development of humane sport — the sport of the camera — to 
celebrate his achievements in print, whether it be a mere sense of triumph or love 
of tantalising, such as inspires the angler and the golfer to test their hearer’s 
credulity, or a more laudable desire to proselytise. Whatever his motive, the 
effect of Mr. Pike’s latest volume, with its plain tales of the chase and its most 
successful pictures, is to make us wish to at once set forth, equipped with a Goerz 
Trieder Binocular and a Goerz- Anschutz camera with a Thornton-Pickard shutter 
and an electric release, regardless of any such details as sixty pounds weight to 
carry, in search of new fields to conquer. One special service which Mr. Pike 
has rendered us is the demonstration of the beauty and interest that yet remain 
within the limits of the now much minished county of Middlesex. We have, on 
another page, quoted some of the conclusions at which he has arrived as to the 
Wild Birds’ Protection Act, and our space here only permits us, while thanking 
him for this cheap and beautiful volume, the coloured frontispiece to which is 
a triumph of printing, though the pictures of insects are not as .satisfactory as 
those of birds, to add two words of criticism. Firstly, we altogether dissent 
from the use of the word “animals” in the title, as opposed to “birds” and 
“insects,” where “beasts” is meant ; and, secondly, we presume that the “tall 
hollyhocks” that “are everywhere dotted about” in a Middlesex copse, “covered 
thickly at the bottom with red cone-shaped flowers,” must be foxgloves. 
Voices of Nature and Lessons from Science. By Caroline A. Martineau. Second 
Edition. Sunday School Association. 1901. 
We are not surprised that this exceptionally excellent little work has reached 
a second edition, and the very limited amount of fault-finding of which we find 
ourselves capable must be taken as simply suggestions for the third. The whole 
trend and object of the work, some chapters of which were originally written 
for the Natural History Club of the Morley Memorial College — lucky club — are 
distinctly and directly ethical. Miss Martineau is not content to write parables, 
like Mrs. Gatty ; she does not hesitate to draw out her moral at length, to give 
us, in fact, lay sermons ; but her science is not merely illustrative, as in the late 
Professor Drummond’s Natural Law in the Spiritual World, it is expository. So 
