Nature and a Camera¹

Abstract

THE remarkably favourable reception accorded by the public and the press to the earlier effort of the Messrs. Kearton has naturally tempted them to another venture; and the volume before us shows no falling off in the matter of interest and the exquisite execution of the illustrations from its predecessor. Only too frequently authors, having scored one success, are apt to think their hold on the public will permit of a very inferior second effort obtaining the same share of patronage as the first, and any odd scraps of new information they may possess are, with the aid of abundant “padding,” worked up to form a volume of the required dimensions. The present work displays in an equally marked degree the freshness and brightness so conspicuous in “British Birds' Nests”; and as covering a wider area is calculated to attract an even larger circle of readers. One of the best tests of a work of this nature is its capability of arousing the interest of young persons, and this, from practical experience, we find to be the case with the volume before us.