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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



lowing coincidence would seem to in- 

 dicate? 



A pompous fowl observing a dog en- 

 joying a meat-covered bone, conceived 

 the malignant design of appropriating 

 the feast. In this interest lie dodged 

 toward the owner of the prize, with an 

 amazingly quick jerk, without further 

 attack, instantly moved down the path, 

 returning immediately with two hens, 

 who, without delay captured the rem- 

 nant of the feast, retreating with it to- 

 ward the excited cock, wdio thus ac- 



cepted opportunity without effort or 

 adventure. 



Records of Migrations. 

 The migrations are over. The cen- 

 sus of the remaining wealth of your 

 locality in wild flowers has been taken, 

 will you send to me copies of such 

 records, together, perhaps, with the 

 names of the most successful members 

 of Chapters who seek to know, by sight 

 and name the wild things of the 

 woods ? 



Literary 



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BIOGRAPHICAL 



Flemish Giants and Other Rabbits. By 



Johnson & Ellard. Cleveland, Ohio. 



This book is intended to give the average 

 fancier the information he most needs and 

 to briefly describe the variety of rabbits 

 that seem to have the greatest promise of 

 a very popular future. 



Little Gardens for Boys and Girls. By 



Myrta Margaret Higgins. Boston and 

 New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. 

 This is in the right direction of simple aid 

 in finding the true value of gardening. It 

 tells how to do things, and arouses an in- 

 terest in plant life. 



Elements of Descriptive Astronomy. A Text- 

 book. By Herbert A. Howe, A. M., Sc. D. 

 New York: Silver, Burdett & Company. 

 This is a popular and well-known text- 

 book of astronomy excellently adapted to 

 the amateur. It is a readable and inspiring 

 book. 



Methods of Attracting Birds. By Gilbert H. 

 Trafton. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Com- 

 pany. 



This book has been written from two view- 

 points, that of birds and that of human 

 beings; for the protection of the former and 

 the pleasure of the latter. 



Pansies, Violas and Violets. By William 

 Cuthbertson, J. P. With eight colored 

 plates. New York: Frederick A. Stokes 

 Company. 



An interesting, well written and beauti- 

 fully illustrated monograph of these popular 

 flowers. It contains several plates in colors. 



The American Annual of Photography, 1911. 



New York City: 57 East Ninth Street, 

 George Murphy, Inc., General Sales 

 Agents. 



This delightful annual, in which all pho- 

 tographers take pride, grows larger and 

 better in the successive issues. This num- 

 ber just issued contains a large variety of 

 thoroughly practical articles and beautiful 

 illustrations from photographs that show 

 one just how to do it and do it rightly. 

 Everyone who has gotten beyond the 

 Brownie stage should send at once for a 

 copy of this practical and attractive book. 



Flower and Bird Guides. By Chester A. 

 Reed. With colored illustrations. Wor- 

 cester, Massachusetts: Chas. K. Reed. 



We are in receipt of three very beautiful 

 little handbooks, two of them pertaining to 

 birds and one to flowers of western North 

 America. One bird book is devoted to land 

 birds and the other to water birds, game 

 birds and birds of prey. These are just the 

 right size to place in an interior coat pocket, 

 as they are about the size and general ap- 

 pearance of a somewhat thick, open end, 

 leather-covered memoranda book. Each 

 book contains illustrations in colors, and by 

 the side of each is a description, all very 

 convenient, clear and attractive. Mr. Reed 

 has conferred a great favor upon every 

 naturalist by issuing these neat little hand- 

 books and should be rewarded for the ex- 

 pense he has put into them, by liberal orders 

 from all. Write him for further particulars. 

 He is a real naturalist, not a compiler, and 

 knows what he is' writing and illustrating. 



