Animals I Have Known

Abstract

IF the present rate of issue be much longer maintained, popular books on mammals (or “animals,” as they are still called by the man in the street) will soon begin to rival in number those devoted to birds. In the volume before us the author, without having anything specially new to communicate, discourses pleasantly enough on the mammals (both wild and domesticated) of our own islands, as well as on those of two other countries, namely, Australia and South America, with which he is personally familiar. His anecdotes and descriptions are emphasised by the numerous reproductions from photographs with which the work is illustrated. Most of these are first rate, the one of the thylacine, or Tasmanian wolf, showing to perfection that gradual merging of the tail in the body to which the author specially alludes, and which so markedly dis tinguishes many of the lower mammals from their more specialised relatives.

Animals I Have Known.

By A. H. Beavan. Pp. 304; illustrated. (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1905.) Price 5s.