15 APRIL 1893, Page 25

Recent Rambles in Touch with Nature. By Charles C. Abbott,

M.D. (J. B. Lippincott.)—Dr. Abbott has some interesting things to tell us about avoods and streams, trees and flowers, birds and beasts. They are, indeed, less interesting to us than they would be to readers on the other side of the Atlantic, for as they come from a close and loving observation of Nature, so they require a certain amount of the same tastes and habits for their due appreciation. But Dr. Abbott has added another to the excellent books of naturalists' experiences which the States have produced.