... 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 ...

... altogether unusual knowledge of birds in a most palatable form. The Times recognised this, and paid her hand somely for her Nature Notes. Nor can I say that Ordinary Families is a novel for the yachtsman, or for such as go down to the sea in sailing- boats ...

... , I had a stomachful, I had, and I sez to John, I sez: 'Whatever we saw in this nasty mucky ol' place beats me. These nature notes written for a local paper and in a personal journal and edited by Mr. Williamson reveals a sensitive observer and chronicler ...

... 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 ...

... man about whom George Moore said that he was the only living writer whose style he envied. B. T.'s weekly para graphs are nature notes a progressive chronicle of the year as it passes in the open air. He writes of harvests and of weather of trees and birds ...

... correspondent, William Boot, one of the Boots of Boot Magna, whose journalistic experience had hitherto been confined to Nature Notes. It was all a mistake not William, but John Boot should have been sent John Boot, the friend of that versatile society ...

... being less familiar with each other, were, perhaps for that reason, on better terms. I am not sure whether Lady Peck's nature notes are always quite accurate. Hedges striped red and white with May, for instance I have never seen them like that, even ...

... eccentric, while their presentation seems to lead to stranger eccentricity still. Once only does the book strike a human and natural note, when a rustic youth contrasts the dental surgery of a farrier and a qualified licentiate. In the comic sock Mr. Pugh succeeds ...

... April Fools at the Play house. Being in time, out of consideration for others, I spent a happy five minutes perusing the nature note on the programme. Most interesting some theatre programmes are tell you what to do if your dog has distemper, how and when ...