ANIMALS OF NO IMPORTANCE
BY DOUGLAS DEWAR


PRESS OPINIONS

Nature.—"We may commend the book as an excellent example of 'Nature teaching.'"

Literary World.—"Mr. Dewar makes us laugh while he teaches us.... These twenty essays are in all ways delightful."

Saturday Review.—"A number of excellent books on Natural History ... proceed from Anglo-Indian authors; and certainly this ... is worthy of its predecessors."

Academy.—"A chatty anecdote book ... showing a sense of humour and kindly insight ... many amusing stories."

Indian Daily News.—"Brightly and cleverly written ... pleasant and amusing reading."

Morning Post (Delhi).—"A treasure-trove of literary art."

Madras Mail.—"Mr. Dewar ... displays quite remarkable knowledge and insight as well as a pretty wit.... Mr. Dewar's volume is calculated to give delight to all who are interested in the creatures of God's earth. Its humours will raise many a smile, while its keenness and accuracy of observation should induce many readers to study more closely the ... life ... around them."

Civil and Military Gazette.—"Shows the faculty of observation as well as a pleasant style."

Englishman.—"The reader will easily fall under the sway of the writer's charms.... Mr. Dewar's book is as interesting as it is entertaining."




BOMBAY DUCKS
AN ACCOUNT OF SOME OF THE EVERYDAY BIRDS AND BEASTS FOUND IN A NATURALIST'S EL DORADO

BY DOUGLAS DEWAR
ILLUSTRATED BY MAJOR F. D. S. FAYRER


PRESS OPINIONS

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."

Athenæum.—"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."