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“IT is well known that the emu is a native of Australia, where on its vast plains they might have been seen in vast numbers” (p. 2). “The kick of an emu is a serious if not a dangerous one.... When sporting they spring up in the air, kicking side-ways.” Sentences like the above occurring close together at the beginning of a volume, and followed later by others of the same type, make one wonder whether the publishers or their printers keep a proof-reader on their establishments. But grammatical slips of this nature are not the only faults by which the work is disfigured, and the classically educated reader will scarcely fail to experience a severe mental shock when he finds the statement on p. 51 that “‘lemur,’ in the language of Madagascar, means ‘night-wandering ghost.’”
My Strange Pets, and other Memories of Country Life.
By R. Bell. Pp. vi + 308. (Edinburgh: Blackwood and Sons, 1905.) Price 6s.
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L., R. My Strange Pets, and other Memories of Country Life . Nature 73, 76 (1905). https://doi.org/10.1038/073076a0
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