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book, day by day ; but are hardly calculated for continuous perusal or re-perusal. 
Many of the four-and-twenty photographs are admirable, especially “The 
Thrush’s Breakfast-table,” “ Ripe Blackberries,” and the “ Beautiful Blue of the 
Chicory-blossom.” This last reminded us how Sir James Kdward Smith, writing 
of the same district as Mr. Robinson, says, “ From the earliest period of my 
recollection, when I can just remember tugging ineflfectually with all my infant 
strength at the tough stalks of the wild succory, on the chalky hills about Norwich, 
I have found the study of Nature an increasing source of unalloyed pleasure.” 
Cotkerham Moss : being a Short Account of a Lamashire GuUery. By J. R. 
Charnley. Lancaster : J. M. Wigley. Price 6d. net. 
This interesting pamphlet, dealing with a home of the Black-headed Gull 
(Larus ridibundus), and illustrated by four photographs by Mr. W. II. Meathcote 
of that species and of the Short-eared Owl, which associates with it, is mainly a 
reprint from Mature-Study. 
The Girls' Realm for February contains, inter alia, an interview with our 
Vice-President, Mrs. Brightwen, by our Honorary Secretary. Mr. Webb deals 
A Wild Bank in “The Grove” Garden. 
(By kind permission, from The Girls’ Realm.) 
somewhat fully with the methods adopted by the authoress of “Wild Nature Won 
by Kindness ” to tame the wild birds and other animals at her charming home at 
Stanmore ; and his account is fully illustrated. By the courtesy of the editor of 
