Chapter 11

_Standard_.--"The book is entertaining, even to a reader who is not a naturalist first and a reader afterwards.... The illustrations cannot be too highly praised."

_Daily News_.--"A charming introduction to a great many interesting birds."

_Scotsman_.--"Like a good curry, it is richly and agreeably seasoned with a pungent humour."

_Manchester Guardian_.--"A series of clever and accurate essays on Indian Natural History written by a man who really knows the birds and beasts."

_Daily Chronicle_.--"A series of informing and often diverting chapters."

_Tribune_.--"Those who know India ... will find themselves smiling again and again at the vivid recollection called up by these descriptions."

_Times_.--"A collection of bright popular papers by an observant naturalist."

_Pall Mall Gazette_.--"Most entertaining dissertations on the tricks and manners of many birds and beasts in India."

_Yorkshire Daily Observer_.--"This handsome and charming book ... the author has many interesting observations to record, and he does so in a very racy manner."

_Spectator_.--"Mr. Douglas Dewar's book is excellent ... the photographs of birds by Captain Fayrer ... are most remarkable."

_Graphic_.--"Light and easy, yet full of information."

_County Gentleman_.--"Thoroughly interesting."

_Illustrated London News_.--"Mr. Dewar ... has collected a series of essays on bird life which for sprightliness and charm are equal to anything written since that classic 'The Tribes on my Frontier' was published."

_Shooting Times_.--"... a more delightful work ... has not passed through our hands for many a long day.... There is not a dull line in the book, which is beautifully illustrated."

_Truth_.--"... a naturalist with a happy gift for writing in a bright and entertaining way, yet without any sacrifice of scientific accuracy."

_Outlook_.--"... the essays make pleasant reading.... We doubt if anything better has been done in bird photography."

_Pioneer_.--"... not only is the book very fascinating to read, but most instructive."

_Indian Daily News_.--"Mr. Dewar's excellent book ... beautifully illustrated."

_Indian Daily Telegraph_.--"Mr. Dewar's book is of the kind of delightful volume which is always to be kept at hand and dipped into."

_Madras Mail_.--"Phil Robinson delighted a generation that knew not 'Eha,' and now Mr. Dewar will complete a trio which, for some time to come at least, will stand for all that is best in that branch of literature which they have made their own."

_Civil and Military Gazette_.--"A volume which is far the best of its kind since the immortal works of Phil Robinson and 'Eha.'"

_The Indian Field_.--"... these charming chapters.... There is not a dull paragraph in the whole book."

BIRDS OF THE PLAINS BY DOUGLAS DEWAR

PRESS OPINIONS

_Daily Chronicle_.--"Here is a work worthy of all commendation to those who love birds."

_Daily Graphic_.--"... a work which all bird lovers will welcome ... beautifully illustrated."

_Daily Express_.--"... light, sprightly and thoroughly entertaining."

_Globe_.--"Mr. Dewar ... is gifted with the descriptive art in a high degree, and his vivacious style communicates the characters and habits of the birds with unerring fidelity and infinite spirit."

_Sportsman_.--"Mr. Dewar has a delightfully simple and quaintly humorous way of expressing himself, and his clever word-pictures of bird-life make charming reading."

_Manchester Guardian_.--"His breezy style is pleasant and easy reading. The photographs deserve the highest praise."

_Manchester Courier_.--"Mr. Dewar has produced a book that will delight not only ornithologists, but all who have the good fortune to light on this humorously instructive volume."

_Western Morning News_.--"The book is enjoyable from the playful preface to the last chapter."

_Spectator_.--"... the contents are excellent."

_Field_.--"... it may well stand on the same bookshelf with the entertaining and instructive writings of 'Eha.'"

_Madame_.--"... accounts of many birds written in the author's inimitable style."

_Outlook_.--"... as charming a volume--avowedly ornithological--as it has been our good fortune to encounter."

_Sunday Times_.--"Mr. Dewar, like Goldsmith, has a delightful style."

_Pall Mall Gazette_.--"Mr. Dewar's volume is one of the best recent examples of sound information conveyed in attractive literary form."

_Literary World_.--"Upon every page ... there is a merit to justify the existence of the page."

_Dundee Advertiser_.--"... just as good reading as ... 'Bombay Ducks,' and to say so much is to bestow high praise."

_Birmingham Post_.--"There is a gladness in his aspect, a pleasing inquisitiveness concerning bird mystery, and a simple, candid style of self-revelation in his essays full of fascination, with touches now and again that remind one of the descriptive qualities of Francis A. Knight. The wood-joy that inspired the felicitous phrases and delightful reflections of John Burroughs in the Western Hemisphere finds its counterpart in these Indian bird-pictures."

_Indian Field_.--"... not a volume that will grow dusty and uncared for on a neglected shelf."

_Times of India_.--"The book has a charm all its own, and is written with rare humour, a humour that in no way detracts from its scientific utility."

_Englishman_.--"One of the most interesting books on bird-life we have seen."

INDIAN BIRDS A KEY TO THE COMMON BIRDS OF THE PLAINS OF INDIA BY DOUGLAS DEWAR

PRESS OPINIONS

_Pall Mall Gazette_.--"This practical and useful work ... is a key to the everyday birds of the Indian plains, in which birds are classified according to their habits and outward differences ... and familiarity with these pages would enable the average man in a few weeks to know all the birds he meets in an Indian station."

_Daily Mail_.--"The plan of this clever little volume ... is as simple as it is ingenious.... It is a safe and thorough guide."

_Athenaeum_.--"Mr. Dewar is a capable guide."

_Manchester Guardian_.--"... new, original and invaluable to the beginner ... it is a small book, but it represents a wonderful amount of thoughtful ingenuity and patient work."

_Daily News_.--"We feel inclined to defy any Indian bird to hide its identity from an enquirer armed with this volume."

_Truth_.--"An admirable practical handbook of Indian ornithology."

_Scotsman_.--"Mr. Dewar's compact, clearly classified, concise and comprehensive manual ... cannot but prove eminently serviceable."

_Spectator_.--"The book is most carefully compiled and much ingenuity is displayed in framing this artificial analysis."

_Western Daily Mercury_.--"A very interesting volume."

_Manchester Courier_.--"All ornithologists in India ... will appreciate and value 'Indian Birds.'"

_Literary Post_.--"... a model of all that such a book should be."

_Pioneer_.--"The plan of the book is unique.... It can be heartily recommended."

_Indian Field_.--"We can thoroughly recommend this book to all not versed in ornithology and who wish to know our birds without having to kill them."

JUNGLE FOLK ACCOUNTS OF SOME OF THE SMALLER FRY OF THE INDIAN JUNGLE BY DOUGLAS DEWAR

PRESS OPINIONS

_Westminster Gazette_.--"Mr. Dewar writes brightly and cleverly about these lesser jungle folk."

_Scotsman_.--"... interesting and delightful."

_Evening Standard_.--"The author ... writes not only out of the fulness of his knowledge, but in a pleasant unpedantic style."

_Liverpool Daily Post_.--"... most readable and enjoyable."

_Sunday Times_.--"We give his book the highest praise possible when we say that it will serve as a matter-of-fact commentary to Mr. Kipling's 'Jungle Books.'"

_Irish Independent_.--"... a work of the most captivating charm."

_Outlook_.--"... pleasant little essays."

_Literary World_.--"This lively book ... abounds in word-pictures and 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."