Mr. Douglas Gordon che most satisfactory of writers about animal life. In his latest work, "Moonlight Tales," he is never over-descriptive, never dulges in a diffuse commentary on What he sets, and, while ibuginetive, does not invent with the freedom which some observers have widowed themselves. These 16 sketches range from a study of the crow to an enchanting acount of the jaguar at home, They show great patience and a consequent familiarity with the haunts and habits of many rare animals. The book is. illustrated by some of the best photographs of animals we have seen, mostly by Miss Franses Pitt, A series of "Five Letters from ne Austen of her niece, Fanny nigint," published in facsimile by the Clarendon Press (2ls.) will be affectionately prized by all who are fortunate enough to partake in a limited edition. Their text has seen the light before in' Lord Brabourne's edition of the letters, but for a keepsake like this they are eminently suitable, since they ave all that has survived of this particular correspondence, and they re dominated by the theme of the younger woman's fluctuating affee-Hons, which the novelist handles in her own best comedy style, deed, in some of the passages her prose is at ite prettiest and most expressive, and in its union of polish and intimacy, feeling and deliberation, der that is dead. "You won of all that is silly commonplace and eecen~ trict, Sad and Lively, Provoking and Interesting.—Who can keep pace with the fluctuations of your Fancy, the Capprizios of your Taste, the contradictions of your Feelings?- You, are #0 odd!—and all the time so perfectly natural—so peculiar in yourself, andy body els And it is very, very gratifying (may one primly say?) to read it alt in the legible, ladylike hand was the implement of 0 Wuch sense and sweetness, The first volume of "The World's library of Best Books" (Newnes, 1s, 6d.) is edited by Mr.
Whitten ('John 0" Londo shows that its selectors have not Vimited themselves by narrow boundaries of field, form, or taste. 'The element most' sparsely represented is that of the ancient classies, for which duty is done solitary excerpt from Plutarch, bu other foreign literature has yield examples of Dante, Cervante Tosen, Macterlinek, Dumas, Hugo, Anatole France, and Goethe, while For America we have Poe, Hawthorne, and Longfellow. rebably eeclulees of Lord Tellcce and SGazans Sy Laveaoto Bani, ome Waits sv. Game, or nana fof Lord Beatty, and in this tour-PhD riament the supporters of the latter Peling. is no longer the inacces-Thave 20 far been Ube most vocifer-
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