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MR. Wood is so well and so widely known for his many popular books on natural history, that the present one is sure to be welcomed by a large number of readers. The illustrations as a rule are most excellent, and care has been taken to make the text as simple as possible for even juvenile readers. The chapter on the monkey tribe is one of the longest and most interesting in the book. Mr. Wood is very careful to state in his first page that between the lower animals and man there is a great gulf fixed which neither can pass. Mr. Wood does not seem to see that the question which has been widely ventilated of late years is not whether there is a great gulf now, but whether there was originally any gulf at all. It is not necessary that this question should be discussed in a book intended chiefly for juvenile readers; but in the absence of a discussion, the statement to which we refer is one which had better not have been made.
The Handy Natural History.
By J. G. Wood, Author of "Homes without Hands." With 226 Engravings. (London: Religious Tract Society, 1886.)
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The Handy Natural History . Nature 35, 341 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035341a0
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