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Interesting Neighbors — Oliver P. Jenkins, Emeritus Professor of 

 Physiology, Stanford University. Calif. Illustrated 248 p. 

 P. Blakiston's Son & Co. $1.50. 



Professor Jenkins has been from the start a firm believer and an 

 effective worker in the Nature-Study movement. One of the 

 earliest and most helpful books published for the Nature-Study 

 teacher was written by him in collaboration with Prof essor Vernon 

 L. Kellog. Moreover, Professor Jenkins has reared a family of 

 boys and girls who were trained to observe out-of-door life almost 

 from the cradle, so he knows how to tell stories that interest 

 children. The sixty-two stories forming this volume are about 

 common things just as they should be; common, because the 

 children see the common things oftenest and enjoy the most. 

 The leaf cutter and carpenter bees, the caterpillars, mushrooms, 

 toads, silk worms, wasps, butterflies, moths, dandelion, seeds, 

 flowers and their adaptations for their insect visitors, pitcher 

 plants and birds. All of these and many more are described in 

 these charming stories. There are eighty-one pleasing and ac- 

 curate illustrations by W. S. Atkinson. It is a valuable and in- 

 teresting book, and we trust that thousands of children in America 

 will enjoy it and have the privilege of owning it. 



Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening. The Woody Plants. 

 2d edition revised. William Trelease, published by the author, 

 Urbana, Illinois. 177 pp. 



Four years ago Professor Trelease published this little book 

 which slips into the coat pocket, and which contains enough 

 scientific information about horticultural plants to fill an encyclo- 

 pedia. It was published first as a help in teaching his own classes 

 in the University of Illinois, but so many other teachers have found 

 it of value that we have now this new revised edition. It con- 

 tains keys of trees and shrubs, undershrubs and climbers, and these 



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