text:  Among the amusing _omniun gatherum_ intermingled with the valuable ornithological information in the present volume we find dissertations on the gigantic raspberries now alas! no more produced in the ruined garden of Walton Hall--on the evils of tight shoes tight lacing and stiff cravats--on the natural history of that extinct-by-law variety of the human species called the chimney sweeper--and last not least on that of the author himself in the continuation of his unique autobiography; and we rejoice to find him though now close upon his grand climacteric still able to climb a tree by the aid of toes which have never been cramped by tight shoes with all the vigour if not all the agility of his lusty youth breathing hostility against no living creature except Mr Swainson and Sir Robert Peel--the little love he already bore to the latter for framing the oath of abjuration for Catholics[9] not being greatly augmented by the imposition of the income-tax--and still maintaining in Walton Park an inviolable asylum for crows hawks owls and all the generally proscribed tribes of the feathered race