THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. ART. I.—A Hunter's Life in South Africa. By Roualeyn Gordon Cumming, Esq., of Altyre. 2 vols. post 8vo. 1850. NATURE in her various aspects and relations presents to Man, her servant and interpreter, as many fields of conmplation and action. She is also differently reflected from the r mind of different individuals, and each investigates or deals her in the fashion most congenial to his own disposition, tastes, ndencies. The earth, the waters, the atmosphere, the celestial he fixed and calculable laws of inorganic matter, exercise of thinkers; for another the varied forms and modifiable of the living world have more attractions. Life, moreits manifold vestments and products are studied 's conditions and circumstances-in the field, in the museum, in the dissecting-room. One man notes he living, another scrutinises the structures of the eks in the animal kingdom a profitable investlabour fourth finds in it the coveted scope the old combative and destructive instincts of ; a one order goes forth to the far wilderness, ckless forest, the denizens of which he se of their faculties, unchecked by the 'ified by the influence of civilized man. very Nimrod by nature he is daily cular powers, moves where he lists, ned by aromatic herbs, sleeps under to the wild notes of the migrating r is roused by the deep and terrible every energy of an adventurous the chace and attack, when he hant's, his courage against the st the wily wolf or the watchful est quadrupeds in all their native aying their characteristic attitudes and hears the free utterance of their various he manifestations of their instincts and the unrestrained XXV. B |