The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne

Abstract

ECCE ITERUM! It is little over six months since the “painful” Mr. Sherborn compiled a bibliography of Gilbert White's matchless work, enumerating some 115 editions or issues of it, and here in England at least three more have since made their appearance, while we hear of another in America—to say nothing of the “Life and Letters” of the author now first fully given to light and recently reviewed in these columns (NATURE, July 18, 1901, p. 276)! Still, the edition of the evergreen classic, “Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne,” with introduction and notes by Prof. Miall and Mr. Warde Fowler, deserves consideration here, for though these gentlemen have judiciously availed themselves of the labours of some of their predecessors in the art editorial and commentarial, they have added a good many notes of their own, not a few possessing a quite original character, while their introduction is of itself well worth reading.

The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.

Gilbert White. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by L. C. Miall, F.R.S., and W. Warde Fowler, M.A. Pp. xl + 386. (London: Methuen, 1901.) Price 6s.