... level as regards the ordinary subjects, and the teaching in specific subjects is equally painstaking and successful. The ' nature notes' are very practical and instructive, but in manual instruction the average quality of the work is not so good it should ...

... J. T. L. Maggs, 8.D.; Rabboni, by Sarah Doudney; Musings for Sunday Mornings, by the Rev. George S. Barrett, D.D.; Nature Notes for Young Folks: Homes of Wild Bees and Wasps, by L. N. Badenoch; The Children's Easter; Home Exercises; Far and Near; ...

... AND A pals The Rev. C. G. Green, Modbury Vintage, South Deven, relates an interesting incident in the February number of Nature Notes. While getting pilchard recently a fisherman, whose word the rev. gentlemen thoroughly relies upon, saw a starling on a ...

... cholera •tricken town to give benefit in favour of the so-called victims of cholera. Ducks Learning to Swim writer in Nature Notes says that most of the ducks in Kensington Gardens make their nests in the trees. Wherever there is dwarfed tree, or where ...

... Meister, and Mr. William Smith's study of the views of Ruskin and Caxlyle as to Walter Scott may also claim attention. In Nature Notes a great cloud of witnesses testify concerning the sparrow. The balance of evidence is overwhelmingly against him, we are ...

... third ; later on it is F j natural aud D, the descending minor third ; and afterwards E aud I>. Daffodils.—A writer in Nature Notes, calling I attention to the iniquity of rooting wild flowers to sell them to English dealers, says he could name a district ...

... recently a warm controversy on the subject of vipers swallowing their young. Mr. Gerard writes to the cu rent number of Nature Notes, putting on record a piece of evidence which seems to him particularly valuable, because the witness had never heard a ...

... gives complete protection for birds wherever a County Council expresses a wish to have it applied. Thus, as the editor of Nature Notes observes, for the first time the taking of the eggs and nests of the ordinary wild birds of our land can be made penal ...

... in the Home, Our Little Dots, Child's Companion, The R~eco~rd of Technical and Secondary Education, Licerary Opinion, Nature 'Notes, The Victorian magazine, Winter's Maggazne, Hygiene, Sang and Speech, The Author, Baby. The best, braekf-SC bsraye- s as ...

... the Act, or it exercises snuff amount of restraining influence, because its wortmons are little enforced. A writer in Nature Notes says that in his district of Hats the ether Sunday evening be found a boy with his cap fun of thrushes' and blackbirds' ...

... NOTES ON A NUTHATCH. Writing in Nature Notes, the Selborne Society's I Magazine for Blandford, Dorset, the Rev. B. Downing says his garden is full of a great number and variety I of birds, all more or less his protegds in the winter time; hot he has ...

... opportunity occurs. The kingfisher has suffered from three wasting causes, fiyfishing, famine, and finery, observes a writer in Nature Notes. As to the first, a curious Nemesis befalls him. As he has caught fish in his life, his dead feathers, made into artificial ...