(1) Birds of the World: a Popular Account (2) Birds Useful and Birds Harmful

Abstract

(1) IT would seem that there is no satisfying the demand for books on birds. Every year places before, not the scientific ornithologist only, but the general reader, in this country, scores of volumes on this group of animals, which must indicate a ready sale for them. The taste for natural-history works has unquestionably been growing in England at a rapid rate during the last decade among all classes of the community, instigated and encouraged largely by the non-technical manner in which so many treatises of the highest scientific authority are being published for the general reader, the majority of them lavishly illustrated, as well as by the issue of so many local faunas, which give an impulse to the study of the species to be found in their own neighbourhood by those into whose hands the books fall.

(1) Birds of the World: a Popular Account.

Dr. Frank H. Knowlton. With a chapter on the Anatomy of Birds, by Frederic A. Lucas; The whole edited by Robert Ridgway. Pp. xiii + 873. (New York: Henry Holt and Company; London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1909.) Price 30s. net.

(2) Birds Useful and Birds Harmful.

Otto Herman J. A. Owen. Pp. viii + 387. (Manchester: The University Press, 1909.) Price 6s. net.