Yours truly
G A Henty [**signature]
THOSE OTHER ANIMALS.
ESSAYS IN LITTLE. By Andrew Lang.
SAWN OFF: A Tale of a Family Tree. By G. Manville Fenn.
A LITTLE IRISH GIRL. By the Author of “Molly Bawn.”
THREE WEEKS AT MOPETOWN. By Percy Fitzgerald.
A BOOK OF BURLESQUE. By William Davenport Adams.
IN A CANADIAN CANOE. By Barry Pain, B.A.
THOSE OTHER ANIMALS. By G. A. Henty. With Illustrations by Harrison Weir. [Ready.
IN CAMBRIDGE COURTS. By Rudolph C. Lehmann. With Illustrations by A. C. Payne. [October.
TO THE READER.
MAN, being essentially a creature of habit, has cometo look upon what he is pleased to consider as theinferior creation from one point of view only, and that inmost cases the narrow and selfish one of his own interests;thus his views are frequently lamentably prejudiced anderroneous. The natural result has been that, while wecondone the failings of those creatures we make usefulto us, we ignore the virtues of other and much moreestimable ones. Thus, we admire the Bee because webenefit by his labours, while we have not a good wordto say for the Wasp, who is, in point alike of industry andintelligence, the Bee’s superior.
An attempt has been here made to view some ofthe animal creation from a broader point of view, and toendeavour to do justice to those whose good points havebeen hitherto persistently ignored, and to take down othersfrom the pedestal upon which they have been placed, asit would seem, unfairly and unreasonably. If some of theconclusions at which we have arrived are not in accordancewith those propounded by men of science, we can only saythat we ar