_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."