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THE author of “A Naturalist on the Prowl” knows how to write pleasantly on the natural history of the Indian jungle. There is not a dull page in his book. It is only rarely that we meet with a volume so full of interesting observations, and so free from stodginess. In “Eha's” company we travelled from the first to the last page, here admiring the keenness of his perception, there laughing at his humorous comments, and always made happy by his geniality. He does not “prowl” to kill, neither is he imbued with the spirit that induces many people to collect shells and postage-stamps as specimens; for though he recognises that “without a collection, a man's knowledge of natural history becomes nebulous, and his pursuit of it dilettante,” he also knows that there is a possibility of a man degenerating into a mere collector, and ceasing to be a naturalist. Mr. R. A. Sterndale enriches the volume with eighty illustrations, mostly sketched from life.
A Naturalist on the Prowl.
By Eha. Pp. 257. (London: W. Thacker and Co., 1894.)
From Spring to Fall.
By “A Son of the Marshes.” Edited by J. A. Owen. Pp. 239. (London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1894.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 51, 8 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051008a0
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