– Outlook. 83: 287. Je. 2, ’06. 100w.
“Miss Selkirk states one side of the question but ignores the other.”
– Putnam’s. 1: 127. O. ’06. 90w.
Selous, Edmund. [Bird watcher in the Shetlands.] **$3.50. Dutton.
A journal of observations minutely kept and presented with all their whimsical digressions in an unclassified state. The “watcher” from his “tiny sentry-box on a Shetland cliff” is alert but “many of the items jotted down in the first part of the book are really big errors. But he has thought fit to leave these mistakes, because they will prove a help rather than a hindrance to the student, in whose mind the correct observation will remain.” (N. Y. Times.)
“There is a distinct development, in the present volume, of Mr. Selous’s characteristic manner, as displayed in his two former books on the same subject. But this time the observations are less copious, though not less thorough, and the digressions more plentiful and luxuriant.”
+ Acad. 70: 113. F. 3, ’06. 840w. + – Ath. 1906, 1: 611. My. 19. 430w.
“The only real fault of the book—unless account is taken of some obvious inaccuracies of style—lies in the illustrations, which are taken from drawings altogether too much ‘made up,’ instead of from photographs, as any American is bound to think they should have been.”
+ + – Dial. 40: 198. Mr. 16, ’06. 470w.