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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[WESTELL 
Wells (S ) 
1899. [Article “ Birds ” in] Handbook to Dover. (Prepared for members 
of the British Association.) 1899. 
1 vol. post 8vo. Not seen. 
Westell (William Percival), not. 1874 
This writer, who resides at Icknield Way, Letchworth, 
Herts, is principally known as an author of popular little 
works, of which he has produced a very great number ; 
indeed, in an autobiographical article he has recently pub- 
lished he terms himself a “ scribbler ” and confesses to having 
turned out fifty books, presumably all more or less relating to 
natural history. He tells us that, like so many others, his 
mentor was Gilbert White’s Natural History of Selborne, and 
goes on to say : 
“ I have only had one serious illness in my life. Thus I 
have been most fortunate in being able to be out and about 
a great deal. For several years I travelled daily to London, 
and Country Rambles , although the actual result of a year’s 
solid outdoor work, was written in Basinghall Street during 
the time that my clerical labour was not in request. A Year 
with Nature came out a short time before Country Rambles , 
both half-guinea companion volumes, and The Early Life 
of the Young Cuckoo was sandwiched in between. This 
carries me to the year 1903. In 1904 my little library con- 
sisted of six books, all written by myself, and then, leaving 
town, I accepted a commercial engagement by day and went 
on writing by night.” 
Later he resigned his commercial appointment and signed 
a five years’ agreement to write for a well-known publisher 
alone, an appointment he resigned owing to ill health after 
two and a half years’ service, during which time he wrote 
twelve books. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society, and a 
member of the B.O.U. 
1897. Handbook of British Breeding Birds. London : 1897. 
Collation— 1 vol. 12mo, pp. 188, ill. 
Idem. Reissue (?) Drane : 1899. 
