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MR. CORNISH is such a bright and entertaining writer, and has also the art of looking at well-worn subjects from such new points of view, that the republication of this series of articles from the Spectator may be welcomed by the zoologist as well as by the general reader. The author, it need scarcely be said, makes no pretence to study animals from a purely scientific or systematic standpoint; and regards the various domesticated breeds as meriting fully as much attention as their wild relatives. The adaptation of animals to their surroundings, the manner in which they exist under what appear to us unfavourable conditions, their speed, their antipathies, their susceptibility to human diseases, and their mental capacities and disabilities, form, indeed, some of his favourite subjects. But he also gives dissertations on the beauty and suitability to their uses of several domesticated breeds; while his chapters on acclimatisation, game-preservation, and, above all, on the terrible devastation inflicted on big game by “skin-hunters,” are of almost absorbing interest.
Animals of To-day, their Life and Conversation.
By C. J. Cornish. Pp. xii + 319. (London: Seeley and Co., Ltd., 1898.)
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L., R. Animals of To-day, their Life and Conversation. Nature 59, 198 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/059198b0
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