NATURE LOVER'S TREASURY.

Selectedand edited by Marshall McClintock '26.Greystone Press, 1948. Pp. 790. $3.50.

Mike McClintock is fast becoming a rival of Louis Untermeyer as a professional anthologist. The jacket says of this book that there are 800 exciting pages. With an index, which I think is needed, it might have just made it. The choice is wide, and on the whole, judicious. Some of it was new to me, even though I have taught a course in "The Nature Writers" for some years, and on the other hand many writers were omitted who might have been included. Any editor of a nature writing anthology, even though he must inevitably leave out much material and many writers, would have quite a time justifying the inclusion of James M. Cain or John Steinbeck while leaving out Henry Williamson, Mary Russell Mitford, and Edmund Selous. I also would recommend Cherry-Garrard, L. M. Nesbitt, Warburton Pike, H. J. Massingham, and others. The inclusion of Dorothy Cottrell was much appreciated by this reviewer.

However, the editor has made some well known, and many less known, choices which make his book one of continuing interest. I was delighted to see Doughty; I recommend also Gertrude Bell and Anne Blunt. I was cheered to see Henry Beston's name and the selection from one of the best, and now, alas, out of print, of American nature books, TheOutermost House.

This book should introduce you to some totally new paths, paths which have given me delight for many years. The type is good, the paper fair, and altogether this is an immense bargain with costs as they are. I hope many read it, and I hope it leads them to many of the books from which these, at times, all-too-short snippets, are taken. Wonderful reading almost without exception.