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MANY of our readers must be familiar with the inimitable “Sketches” of St. John, which has long ago achieved the position of a classic for both the sportsman and the naturalist. We do not know of any descriptions of sport to equal those that abound in these pages, in truthfulness, vigour, and genial humour. To the naturalist who loves to know the habits of an animal in its native haunts, the book must be a treasure; and now that Harrison Weir, Whymper, Corbould, Collins, and Ehves have adorned it with their art, the book should become a greater favourite than ever. No artist equals Whymper in his faithfulness to life in drawing animals. Every picture in the book—and there are about eighty of them—is a masterpiece in its way, and an impressive lesson ia natural history. We need only say that the engraver is Mr. J. W. Whymper to convince our readers that the artists' charming work has been faithfully and skilfully rendered. No one can read a chapter of the book without being both refreshed and instructed.
Sketches of Wild Sport and Natural History of the Highlands.
By Charles St. John. Illustrated Edition. (London: Murray, 1878.)
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Sketches of Wild Sport and Natural History of the Highlands . Nature 19, 193 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019193a0
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