The Story of our Museum, showing how we Formed it, and what it Taught us

Abstract

THIS is a most excellent book for a boy with a taste for natural history. It describes in a pleasing and natural way how two boys living in a country village in Gloucestershire began to make a museum. It narrates all their difficulties, their failures, and their successes; and how, by perseverance, and with very little expense, they gradually formed a collection illustrating the whole range of the natural history and antiquities of their district, including, besides, postage-stamps and autographs. How much pleasure and how much knowledge are to be obtained while forming such a collection is very well shown; and though there is little novelty in the book, occasional diffuseness in the treatment, and hardly any passages that will bear separate quotation, these trifling deficiencies do not at all detract from its merit as a book for boys, which is all that it pretends to be.

The Story of our Museum, showing how we Formed it, and what it Taught us.

By the Rev. Henry Housman, &c., &c. (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1881.)