happy humour."
_Glasgow Evening News_.--"Mr. Douglas Dewar writes with accustomed
grace and sympathetic knowledge."
_Academy_.--"... with Mr. Dewar there is a smile on every page, and
his touch is so light that one only realises, when the process is at
an end, that a large amount of information has been imparted in an
amusing form."
_Western Morning News_.--"Every page makes for easy reading and ready
attention."
_Shooting Times_.--"... delightful reading."
_Catholic Herald_.--"Quite the most interesting natural history work
we have seen for a long time."
_Manchester Courier_.--"Mr. Dewar's ... shrewd observation, his quaint
humour and his wide knowledge of Indian bird-life make his every page
interesting."
_The World_.--"We have read and enjoyed much of his work before, but
we think that 'Jungle Folk' makes even more delightful reading than
anything that has come from its author's pen."
_Birmingham Daily Post_.--"... entertaining sketches ... and light
dissertations."
_Times of India_.--"Mr. Dewar's bright and pleasant pages."
_Madras Mail_.--"The reader who has perused Mr. Dewar's books merely
for amusement will find that he has incidentally added a good deal to
his knowledge of Indian natural history."
GLIMPSES OF INDIAN BIRDS
BY DOUGLAS DEWAR
PRESS OPINIONS
_Globe_.--"Mr. Dewar gives us something more than 'glimpses' of Indian
bird-life in his very interesting volume."
_Standard_.--"Not the least merit of the book is the author's
unwillingness to take anything for granted."
_Spectator_.--"We know nothing better to recommend to an amateur
ornithologist who finds himself in India for the first time."
_Guardian_.--"... vivid and delightful."
_Observer_.--"... full of special knowledge."
_Scotsman_.--"... a lively and interesting series of short studies."
_Daily Graphic_.--"The book is full of the right sort of information
about birds."
_Field_.--"... chatty and graphically written."
_Daily Citizen_.--"... very pleasant and very instructive reading."
_The World_.--"We have read and enjoyed his earlier efforts, but we
think that his latest will be found the most valuable and enduring of
all his work."
_Pall Mall Gazette_.--"... much first-hand observation and
experience."
_Birmingham Daily Post_.--"These ... 'glimpses' ... so full of alert
observation and racy description, are delightful and informing
reading."
_Newcastle Daily Chronicle_.--"... his accounts ... make us feel that
we have been with him in something more than the spirit."
_Pioneer_.--"The charm of the volume ... lies in the evidence of the
immense amount of observation carried out by the writer."
BIRDS OF INDIAN HILLS
A GUIDE TO THE COMMON BIRDS OF THE INDIAN HILL STATIONS
BY DOUGLAS DEWAR
PRESS OPINIONS
_Sunday Times_.--"Excellent is hardly good enough a term for this
volume."
_Times_.--"Mr. Dewar writes accurately and vividly of his selected
group of birds in the Himalayas and Nilgiris, and adds a list of those
to be found in the Palni Hills."
_Field_.--"Mr. Dewar gives short descriptions of the most notable
species, not in wearisome detail as affected by some writers, but in a
few sentences which carry enough to enable the reader to recognise a
bird when he sees it."
_Aviatic Review_.--"... a very useful, compact little volume."
_Pall Mall Gazette_.--"The book will appeal most of all to those who
have occasion to visit Indian hill stations."
_Morning Post_.--"Now and again he gives us little pictures of
bird-life, which are pleasant proofs that he is, like M. Fabre, a
master of the new science that will not select the facts or distort
them to suit some splendid generalisation."
THE MAKING OF SPECIES
BY DOUGLAS DEWAR AND FRANK FINN
_WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS_
A BOOK THAT BRINGS DARWINISM UP TO DATE
PRESS OPINIONS
_Truth_.--"'The Making of Species' will do much to arrest the
fossilisation of biological science in England."
_Outlook_.--"... a book of knowledge and originality. Messrs. Dewar
and Finn are capable investigators. This work is thoroughly
characteristic of our day. A long volume full of interest and very
clearly written."
_Literary World_.--"The book is certainly to be welcomed for the
concise way in which it deals with the greatest problem of zoology."
_Aberdeen Free Press_.--"The book is well written. We do not doubt
that the work will produce good fruit and attract considerable
attention."
_Daily Telegraph_.--"Interesting and suggestive. It should receive
wide attention."
_Dublin Daily Express_.--"The merits of the book are undoubtedly
great. We recommend it to the attentive study of all who are
interested in the subject of evolution."
_Manchester Courier_.--"The amateur entering this perplexing field
could hardly have a better guide."
_Nation_.--"An exceptionally interesting book."
_Scotsman_.--"Impartial and awakening."
_Bristol Mercury_.--"The authors ... handle a subject which has an
obvious controversial side with strength, and there are convincing
qualities as well as lucidity in the views so admirably set forth."
_Times_.--"The two authors ... deal suggestively with the difficulties
of natural selection ... and their arguments are supported by a goodly
array of facts."
_Liverpool Courier_.--"Contains a great deal of well-marshalled
observation."
_Lancet_.--"A very interesting book ... simply and clearly written."
_Dundee Advertiser_.--"... a book which is at the same time one of the
most interesting and readable on the controversial aspects of natural
history published in recent years."
_The Christian World_.--"This very interesting work."
_Bristol Times_.--"A work of value, which will give occasion to many
to think, and an admirable presentation of facts."
_Westminster Review_.--"... written in popular language and contains
many original observations."
_Daily Chronicle_.--"An interesting and suggestive book."