174 NATURE NOTES 
The Educational Value of Nature-Study : an Address by J. C. Medd , M.A . , 
delivered at the Conference of the Private Schools’’ Association, June 20, 1903. 
Cirencester: G. H. Ilarmer. 
As Mr. Medd says, it is difficult for anyone to say anything new on this 
subject, and for one who has taken so leading a part in advocating the introduc- 
tion of this educational method as he has, doubly difficult. He manages, how- 
ever, to make a fresh and forceful appeal for his hobby, and we are glad to see a 
feeling allusion to the life-work of the late Mr. Rooper. Mr. Medd will excuse 
11s if we choose for quotation an excellent sentence from a Canadian educa- 
tionalist. The teacher, he says, “must have seen Nature in her scientific aspects, 
that his knowledge may he definite ; in her artistic aspects, that her beauty and 
harmony may be appreciated ; in her spiritual aspects, that he may read her 
message, see the unity in all life, see her as the flowing vestment of an unchanging 
reality.'’ 
Le Massacre des Oiseaux : Afpel aux Femmes. Par Mile. P. Lagier, fondatrice 
de la Ligue Feminine Romande. Geneva. Messrs. Kiindig. 
This 32-pp. pamphlet contains Mdlle. Lagier’s address to her anti-plume 
league, delivered at Geneva on March 5, a leaflet, “ Ce que represente l’aigrelte 
du Heron sur un chapeau,” another, “ L’oiseau du Paradis,” based upon that by 
Mrs. Lemon, and the rules of the League. These are distributed gratuitously 
from the office of the League, 4, Rue du Vieux-College, Geneva. The League 
has circulated translations of Mrs. Reynolds’ “Necessity of a Humanitarian 
Education,” Miss Celia Thaxter’s “ Hardness of Women’s Hearts,” and Mr. 
Salt’s “ Animals’ Rights,” and it can boast of having originated a similar league 
in Moscow. Its rules seem closely modelled on those of our own Society for the 
Protection of Birds, its minimum annual subscription being but a franc. 
Field Path Rambles , Series 25, comprising Routes round Canterbury. By Walker 
Miles. R. E. Taylor and Son. Price is. net. 
Taking Canterbury as a centre, but, true to its title, devoting only two pages 
of small print notes to the archaeological interests of the city, this welcome little 
addition to the excellent series we have so often had occasion to praise, describes 
numerous routes for the pedestrian through the surrounding country. Sixteen 
pretty photographic views and sketch-maps of the city and the neighbouring 
railroads make this series as complete as usual. 
Furthest South: The Adventurous Voyage of the “ Discovery ,” and the Sledge 
Journey to the Furthest Point South ever reached by Man. By Lieut. E. II. 
Shackleton. Supplement to the Illustrated Eon don News , June 27, 1903. 
This is the first half of a fully-illustrated narrative of the doings of an expedi- 
tion in the success of which every Briton must feel an interest. 
Public Works. 
We have as yet only seen a prospectus of the new shilling monthly magazine 
with this title, which is about to appear under the conduct of the editor of 
7 he Surveyor. It is printed with all the typographical skill of the St. Bride’s 
Press, fully illustrated and enclosed in a tasteful cover representing the Pont du 
Card. We hope this is an augury that the preservation of the beautiful will 
not be overlooked in the pages of our new contemporary. 
Spurious Sports considered from an Educational Standpoint. By the Rev. H. B. 
Gray, D.D. , Warden of Bradfield College. Humanitarian League. 
If there is nothing very novel in Dr. Gray’s address, its temperate attitude, 
and the high scholastic authority of its author, may command a hearing which 
others might fail to secure. 
The Butterflies and Moths of Europe. By W. F. Kirby, Parts 31 and 32. 
Cassell and Co. Price 7d. each. 
These parts conclude this splendid work. The last part contains an index of 
genera and species occupying seventeen pages, printed in four columns, and the 
preface fully acknowledging indebtedness to continental illustrations. The forms 
