further merit of being written in a pleasantly colloquial and 
unaffected style.”— Newcastle Journal. 
“Admirable alike in its method and classification, in its vast 
comprehensiveness, in the research and knowledge it displays. . . . 
The non-scientific reader will find here a hook treating of a fascinat¬ 
ing subject in a manner that has a strange magnetism.”— Hexham 
Courant. 
“A breath of the moor and a whiff of the sea exhale from these 
pages of vivid and picturesque description. . . . The author is 
steeped, so to speak, in knowledge of the technique of wildfowling. 
The spirited pen-and-ink sketches, by the author himself, are 
excellent.”— Glasgow Daily Herald. 
“Messrs. Gurney & Jackson, London, have published a second 
edition of a work which, while appealing specially to ornithologists, 
is capable of holding the fascinated interest of a much wider reading 
public; its general scheme, indeed, is, as the author justly claims 
in the preface, of a character well calculated to hold the attention 
of the average reader who possesses some love for the ‘out-bye’ 
country and its bird-life in their wilder aspects. The whole book, 
in its fine and lucid descriptions of bird-life on moorland and sea, now 
redolent of sweet country breezes, now smacking of the glorious ozone, 
is a storehouse of perfect delight to the lover of nature who possesses 
even only a superficial acquaintance with Mr. Chapman’s winged 
friends. Altogether ‘ Bird-Life of the Borders ’ is a veritably en¬ 
trancing book; and it has been right worthily clothed by Messrs. 
Gurney & Jackson in a form which, from every standpoint, is as 
admirable a specimen of modern publication as one could desire.”— 
Morpeth Herald. 
“ To those who have never read Mr. Abel Chapman’s delightfully 
informative volume entitled ‘ Bird-Life of the Borders,’ an oppor¬ 
tunity is now presented, as a new revised edition has been issued 
by Messrs. Gurney & Jackson at 14s. net. As a faithful record 
of bird-life on moorland and sea we know of no more interesting 
work than the one before us, and the whole book teems with 
practical notes as a result of over forty years’ careful observation. 
It is one of the most valuable records of wild life ever written, and 
the talented author’s clever sketches, as well as his writing, add in 
no small measure to the general excellence of the volume. We 
never remember reading a book with so much pleasure and profit, 
and we fervently wish that every lover of Nature was as observant 
as Mr. Chapman. His enthusiasm for wild life is infectious, but 
the reader must read this really delightful book for himself and 
judge whether we overpraise it in any way. It is a model of keen 
observation and systematic note-making, and might be emulated 
to advantage by all lovers of wild life.”— The Naturalist's Quarterly 
Review. 
