Reviewed by Wm. M. Payne.
| + | Dial. 42: 15. Ja. 1, ’07. 150w. |
“She knows her story well, and she knows her people, and draws the vulgar, convention-ridden, lower middle class with their dull and sordid lives, made up so exclusively of raiment and food, with a certain truthful if incisive cruelty.”
| + | Ind. 62: 442. F. 21, ’07. 200w. |
Finn, Frank. Ornithological and other oddities. **$5. Lane.
“A collection of thirty-eight short articles, which have appeared in various English publications. All but six deal with birds, and some of the subjects are of unusual interest.” (Nation.) “The author’s aim has been to bring together all the out-of-the-way facts about the creatures he writes about, and his choice of instances has been a very happy one. The chapter on the ‘Toilet of birds’ may serve as a sample. Herein he discusses the uses of the birds’ oil-gland, or as he calls it, ‘pomatum-pot,’ and the still more curious ‘powder-puff’ and ‘comb.’” (Acad.)
“There is not a dull line in the whole volume, while the illustrations are remarkably good.”
| + | Acad. 72: 508. My. 25, ’07. 410w. |
“Few of the separate sketches, touching as they do merely the fringe of the subject under discussion, run any risk of exhausting either it or the reader. Being drawn mainly from the aviculturist’s point of view rather than from that of the field naturalist, they should appeal specially to frequenters of zoological gardens and museums.”