BIRDS OF THE PLAINSBY DOUGLAS DEWAR, F.Z.S., I.C.S.WITH SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS OF LIVING BIRDS BY CAPTAIN F. D. S. FAYRERPREFACEIT is easy enough to write a book. The difficulty is to sell the production when it is finished. That, however, is not the author's business. Nevertheless, the labours of the writer are not over when he has completed the last paragraph of his book. He has, then, in most cases, to find a title for it.This, I maintain, should be a matter of little difficulty. I regard a title as a mere distinguishing mark, a brand, a label, a something by which the book may be called when spoken of nothing more.According to this view, the value of a title lies, not in its appropriateness to the subject-matter, but in its distinctiveness.To illustrate : some years ago a lady entered a bookseller's shop and asked for "Drummond's latest book Nux Vomica" The bookseller without a word handed her Lux Mundi. To my way of thinking Lux Mundi is a good title inasmuch as...

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