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THESE stories, retold from the folk-lore of many lands, will inspire sympathetic interest in animal life in the young readers for whom they are written. From every point of view they are far better than the grotesque tales often supposed to be suitable for children. They tell of self-sacrifice, right relations of man to the creatures around him, the blessing of pity, the wrong of wanton killing, the suffering caused by thoughtlessness, the origin of the totem as the bond of union between men, and many like matters. We have read the stories with interest, and congratulate the author upon her rendering of them. As a gift-book the collection merits wide distribution.
Legends of our Little Brothers: Fairy Lore of Bird and Beast.
Lilian Gask. Pp. 268. (London: G. Harrap and Co., n.d.) Price 3s. 6d. net.
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Legends of our Little Brothers: Fairy Lore of Bird and Beast . Nature 90, 331 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090331b0
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