(1) The Hundred Best Animals (2) True Stories about Horses (3) The Human Side of Plants

Abstract

(i) THE stories of a hundred animals of distinction are told to two children by a veteran who had been a mighty hunter in his day, and good stories they are. He talked mostly about mammals—lion and tiger, seal and walrus, elephant and ape, camel and llama, antelope and deer, sloth and ant-eater, kangaroo and duckbill. But, like Solomon, the veteran spake also, in the last five of the twenty-nine chapters, “of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.” We are not sure that Solomon would always have agreed with him; for instance, about the water reservoirs in the camel's stomach; or as to the advisability of telling children that wise folk think the tallest animal in the world has lengthened out its neck by so much reaching; or that “ squirts out “ is the right word to use in regard to the exudation of toad's poison. But there is no doubt that the book is one which children will thoroughly enjoy and also profit by

(1) The Hundred Best Animals.

By Lilian Gask. Pp. 304. (London: G. G. Harrap and Co., 1914.) Price 7s. 6d. net.

(2) True Stories about Horses.

By Lilian Gask. Pp. 266. (London: G. G. Harrap and Co., n.d.) Price 3s. 6d. net.

(3) The Human Side of Plants.

By Royal Dixon. Pp. xix + 201. (London: Grant Richards, Ltd., 1915.) Price 7s. 6d. net.