252 NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [12:6-Sept. f 1916 



"Sweet daisy, flower of love! when the birds are paired, 

 'Tis sweet to see thee, with thy blossom bared, 

 Smiling in virgin innocence serene, s 

 Thy pearl crown above thy vest of green." — John Leyden. 



"Oh, that it were with me 

 As with the flower; 

 Blooming on its own tree 

 For butterfly and bee 



Its spring time morns : 

 That I might bloom mine hour 

 A rose in spite of thorns." 



The following is a list by title only of some additional quotations 

 relative to certain flowers: For-get-me-not, Percival; Bleeding 

 hearts, Swineburn; Trailing Arbutus, Rose T. Cook; Lily of the 

 Valley, George Croly ; Fringed Gentian, Bryant ; Goldenrod, Thax- 

 ter; Violet, Wordsworth and Bryant; Lilac, Burns; Asters, Whit- 

 tier and Goodale; Harbinger of Spring, Bernard Barton; Sun- 

 flower, Thompson; Evening Primrose, Keats; Pansy, Mary E. 

 Bradly; Honey Suckle, Sir Walter Scott; Crocus, Patterson; He- 

 patica, Anemone, Clover, Red Cardinal, Blood Root, Columbine, 

 Meadow Rue, Wild Strawberry, Elaine Reed Goodale. 



Animal Competitors, by Ernest Ingersoll. Pp. 319. $1.00 net. 

 Sturgis & Walton, New York. 

 It is often easier to get information about strange foreign ani- 

 mals than about those in your house, yard or field. For this 

 reason this little handbook, summarizing the general natural his- 

 tory and best economic procedure applicable to our common, four- 

 footed vermin, and valuable wild quadrupeds, is a very welcome 

 addition to the library of the teacher and of the school, and this 

 is particularly so of rural communities. The book is based, to a 

 large extent, upon the activities of the Biological Survey of the 

 U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, results which are beyond the reach of 

 the average teacher. This is the only recent, comprehensive ac- 

 count of the common household, garden and field pests, and fur- 

 thermore it contains much about fur-bearing animals and game. 

 Here is brought together a large amount of interesting and val- 

 uable information about rats, mice, rabbits, moles, skunks, musk- 

 rats, foxes and deer, which has been widely scattered and inac- 

 cessible to most persons. 



