Wild Animals, Photographed and Described

Abstract

THE author of this splendidly printed volume, while disclaiming the idea that it is an erudite or scientific work on natural history, assures us that his object in writing and compiling it was to furnish some trustworthy information about some few of the most important varieties of existing wild animals, and to do this in an entertaining and readable manner. The works at present in existence on such a subject may be classified, the author thinks, into the “scientific” and the “educational”: the former are, in great measure, incomprehensible to the general reader; the latter have their value to the same class of reader greatly spoiled by the taint of levity that characterises the style in which they are written. When a bear is talked of as “Master Bruin,” and a lion as “His Majesty,” the dignity of the subject is compromised.

Wild Animals, Photographed and Described.

Illustrated by Phototype Reproductions of Photographic Negatives taken from Life. By J. Fortuné Nott., Major, Canadian Active Militia. (London: Sampson Low and Co., 1886.)