Natural History of the Year

Abstract

IT does not often fall to our lot to notice a book of this description which Ave can so heartily commend. The design is to interest young people in the varied productions of Nature, by taking them into the fields and woods from month to month, and pointing out the numberless objects of interest that will meet the observant eye at every turn. This is all told in a pleasant manner, and withal with a religious spirit. The author was himself a keen and accurate observer of Nature; and we do not meet with those atrocious blunders with which books intended for the instruction of children too often abound in describing the most familiar things. The book is illustrated with some extremely tasteful illustrations, one for each month, and forms altogether a most attractive gift-book for an intelligent child.

Natural History of the Year.

By the late B. Woodward (London: S. W. Partridge.)