Excerpt from London Birds and Beasts
The reader of the following pages will doubtless remind the writer of the present lines that good wine needs no bush. As, however, the authorship of the articles from the Saturday Review was only known to a few friends and acquaintances, it appeared desirable that they should be prefaced in the book form by someone interested in the matters of which they treat, and, as so many of them relate to the animals at the Zoological Society's Gardens, I was asked by the author's friends to say a few words by way of an introduction to these essays of Mr. Tristram-Valentine.
The first set of sketches deals with animals at the Zoological Gardens. When they appeared in the Saturday Review, they were a propos of recent acquisitions; but it will be seen that they are of more than temporary value as short essays upon the animals in question. Moreover a large percentage of them relates to creatures that are generally included in the collection of living animals at the Regent's Park.
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