Fur and Feather Series— The Hare

Abstract

FROM the first it was evident that the beautifully illustrated volumes of the “Fur and Feather Series” would appeal more to the sportsman and the bon-vivant than to the naturalist. That this is the case with the present issue may be inferred from the fact that out of a total of 263 pages, only a paltry sixty-two are devoted to what the author calls the natural history of the hare. As a matter of fact, it is impossible to apply the term “natural history” to the subject of more than the first forty-eight pages; the third chapter in Mr. Macpherson's section of the work being devoted to the legislation concerning the animal in question, while the fourth bears the mysterious title of “The Hare and her Trod.” From reading the text, we infer that “trod” has something to do with poaching, although of its precise signification we are still in ignorance.

Fur and Feather Series.— The Hare.

Edited by A. E. T. Watson. 12mo. Pp. 263. Illustrated. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1896.)