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REVIEWS AND EXCHANGES. 
The Glamour of the Earth. By (>. A. B. Dewar. With illustrations by K. 
W. A. Rouse. George Allen. Price 6s. net. 
We have learnt to expect a book daintily got up from Mr. George Allen, and 
true appreciation of Nature expressed with poetical sympathy from Mr. Dewar. 
In neither respect does the present work disappoint us. Bound, perhaps, in too 
delicately coloured a cloth, it is exquisitely printed and light to hold, while in four 
full-page photogravures, and even more in the headings to the ten chapters, .Mr. 
(From “The Glamour of the Earth.” By kind permission of Mr. George Allen.) 
Rouse has fully caught the poetry of the author he is illustrating. Obviously 
written in the midst of the country life it describes, without any attempt at the 
directly didactic, Mr. Dewar’s book, though eminently readable throughout, 
hardly lends itself to quotation. We notice that he asks whether anyone has 
ever been perched upon by an adult wild bird in this country. This we cannot 
claim, though a Camberwell Beauty butterfly did once condescend to alight on 
the writer’s shoulder. But this was on the bank of the Dvina. Largely, tnough 
not exclusively, ornithological, the book contains so many useful observations that 
it should have been deemed worthy of an index. 
Natural History in Zoological Gardens; being some account of vertebrated animals, 
with special referencee to those usually to be seen in the Zoological Society's Gar- 
dens in London and similar institutions. By F. E. Beddard, M.A., F.R.S. 
With illustrations by Gambier Bolton and Winifred Austen. Archibald 
Constable & Co. Price 6s. net. 
There was certainly room for a short, simple, readable, but accurate account of 
the animals usually seen in Zoological Gardens, such as Mr. Beddard, the accom- 
plished Prosector of the Zoological Society, gives us in this volume ; and when, 
moreover, it is illustrated by more than thirty of Mr. Gambier Bolton’s unequalled 
photographs and nearly twenty of Miss Austen’s clever drawings, the result is a 
most attractive volume. The author describes 117 species, with shorter 
references to others, and mainly confines himself to those to be seen in the 
Regent’s Park. His purpose is confined to vertebrates ; but in reading his 
prefatory remarks on the Animal Kingdom as a whole, it occurred to us that 
mention might have been made of the beautiful little fresh-water Medusa that 
appeared next door, so to say, in the Royal Botanical Society’s tanks ; and that, 
now that even the Westminster Aquarium is no more, the Zoological Society 
might do more in the direction of salt and fresh-water aquaria. Such instructive 
types as Spongilla, Echinus, Limulus, Limucea and Octopus, ought certainly to 
be on view ; and, perhaps, further concessions to education, such as distributional 
maps, diagrams, tables of classifications, and even a few fossils, skeletons and 
casts, might not be amiss. This criticism on the Zoo., however, is quite apart 
from Mr. Beddard’s book. His introductory matter, excellent as it is, is very 
