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reptiles, insects, and isolated flowers, it equals, if it does not surpass, any of its 
predecessors. Though we are still of the opinion that an uncoloured photograph 
is never a satisfactory representation of a lepidopterous insect, we have seldom, 
if ever, seen as good photographs of plants as those in Mr. Snell’s volume. 
Be-deweo Spider’s Web. (From “ The Camera in the F'iekis,” by kind 
permission of T. Fisher Unwin, Esq.) 
These are, however, but advertisements, so to speak, of the results obtainable ; 
the distinctive value of the book is that, pointing out clearly the special provinces 
of stalking and of control photography, it gives pr.actical directions, e.specially in 
the latter branch of the art, by which any ordinary town-dwelling photographer 
can make a good start in portr.aying living beings. We are .able, by the courtesy 
of the publisher, to repioduce three specimens of the illustrations. 
