... purely a personal comment it is a charming, worthwhile little book. An attractive book of mixed reading (mostly wildfowling, nature notes, random observations) is Pastures New (Witherby 12s. 6d.), by Jeffery G. Harrison. It records experiences on the Elbe, ...

... like 'em to be characters. Ann was herself secretly an author she contributed a weekly column of homely unpretentious nature notes for the Penfield County Register first she sang them, when she thought no one was by, spontaneous hymns of praise and later ...

... reminder. Two books of similar background, and similar in the sense that each is concerned with very rural existence, are Nature Notes of a Highland Gamekeeper (Seeley, Ser vice; 1 6s.), by Dugald Macintyre, and Highland Gathering (Bles; 18s.), by Kenneth ...

... crime in the raw it gives me the feeling that I have strayed into a madhouse. All things considered, I think I prefer the nature notes, plays, stories, poems, songs, and Eileen Soper drawings in Enid Blytoi: s Book of the Year (Evans, 12s. 6d.). At least ...

... fair description of a book which is strictly sui generis. Wander and Watch (Staples, us. 6d.) is a rewarding collection of nature notes and observations made by Mr. Walter J. C. Murray and Mr. L. Hugh Newman, and arranged in the sequence of the months of ...