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and in many cases would convince the veriest dendrolater, if we 
may coin the word, of the necessity for the knife, the saw or the 
shears. He admits, however, that many pruners “ have mis- 
taken their vocation : they are carpenters.” A quarter of the 
book is devoted to American vine-culture. 
Birds in London. By W. H. Hudson, F.Z.S. Illustrated by 
Bryan Hook, A. D. McCormick, and from photographs 
from nature by R. B. Lodge. Longmans, Green & Co. 
Pp. 340, 8vo. Price 12s. 
London, though vast as a city, is comparatively small 
geographically. Though it has twice as many human inhabi- 
tants as Yorkshire, the largest of English counties, it does not 
cover an area equal to that of Rutland, the smallest. Neither 
London Crows (by Bryan Hook). 
is it at all easily defined as an area. If then, either Mr. 
Hudson or we ourselves occupied a narrowly scientific stand- 
point, or were concerned even mainly with the mere cataloguing 
of the birds which have been, are, or may be observed within 
the London area as a matter of geographical distribution, we 
should be inclined to differ from him in styling the list of some 
