DOI issue:
No. 105 (December, 1901)
DOI article:Reviews
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19874#0231
Reviews
wild animals is an incriminating
blot upon modern civilisation.
" My chief motive," he writes,
" my most underlying wish, has
been to stop the extermination
of harmless wild animals, not for
their sakes but for ours, firmly
believing that each of our native
wild creatures is in itself a precious
heritage that we have no right to
destroy or put beyond the reach
of our children." Mr. Thomp-
son's latest work is in every way
worthy to be ranked with those
which have preceded it—worthy
because of the humanising
quality of its stories, the beauty
drawing by h. r. millar from "queen mab's fairy realm ' °^ ^S illustrations, and itS eX-
(newnes) trinsic merits — the excellent
cover design, the quaint title-
page, the arrangement of the
Troilus and Cressida, by J. D. Batten, Cymbeline, pages, and the choice of the paper. Printed at
by Patten Wilson, Xing Richard III., by Byam the De Vinne Press, of New York, the high quality
Shaw, and The Winter's Tale, by H. S. Ford. We of its typography was assured,
should like to have seen all the
illustrations bound in a volume
by themselves. In such a form
they would have made a most
acceptable addition to the col-
lection, but in their present
position they are out of place,
for they fail to harmonize with
the printed page, and are not
sufficiently "bookish" to meet
the requirements of most biblio-
philes. The unsuitably de-
signed title-page, reproduced in
colours in each volume, is a dis-
tinct eyesore; but the edition
has so many excellent qualities
to counterbalance this defect
that it is sure to become a
popular one.
Lives of the Hunted. By
Ernest Seton Thompson.
(London : David Nutt.) Price
6s. net.—In his knowledge of
the ways of animals, and in his
intense sympathy with them, the
author of Wild Animals I have
Known is quietly and unas-
sumingly doing a great and im-
portant work. The wholesale
and indiscriminate slaughter of drawing by r. savage from "queen mab's fairy realm" (newnes)
218
wild animals is an incriminating
blot upon modern civilisation.
" My chief motive," he writes,
" my most underlying wish, has
been to stop the extermination
of harmless wild animals, not for
their sakes but for ours, firmly
believing that each of our native
wild creatures is in itself a precious
heritage that we have no right to
destroy or put beyond the reach
of our children." Mr. Thomp-
son's latest work is in every way
worthy to be ranked with those
which have preceded it—worthy
because of the humanising
quality of its stories, the beauty
drawing by h. r. millar from "queen mab's fairy realm ' °^ ^S illustrations, and itS eX-
(newnes) trinsic merits — the excellent
cover design, the quaint title-
page, the arrangement of the
Troilus and Cressida, by J. D. Batten, Cymbeline, pages, and the choice of the paper. Printed at
by Patten Wilson, Xing Richard III., by Byam the De Vinne Press, of New York, the high quality
Shaw, and The Winter's Tale, by H. S. Ford. We of its typography was assured,
should like to have seen all the
illustrations bound in a volume
by themselves. In such a form
they would have made a most
acceptable addition to the col-
lection, but in their present
position they are out of place,
for they fail to harmonize with
the printed page, and are not
sufficiently "bookish" to meet
the requirements of most biblio-
philes. The unsuitably de-
signed title-page, reproduced in
colours in each volume, is a dis-
tinct eyesore; but the edition
has so many excellent qualities
to counterbalance this defect
that it is sure to become a
popular one.
Lives of the Hunted. By
Ernest Seton Thompson.
(London : David Nutt.) Price
6s. net.—In his knowledge of
the ways of animals, and in his
intense sympathy with them, the
author of Wild Animals I have
Known is quietly and unas-
sumingly doing a great and im-
portant work. The wholesale
and indiscriminate slaughter of drawing by r. savage from "queen mab's fairy realm" (newnes)
218