XXVI 



THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



Pitre's The Swallow Book. By Dr. Giuseppe 

 Pitre. Translated from the Italian by 

 Ada Walker Camehl. Cloth, 12mo, 158 

 pages, 60 ilustrations. Price 35 .cents. 

 New York; American Book Company. 

 This supplementary reader for the upper 

 grammar grades consists of an introductory 

 chapter describing the swallow, followed by 

 a collection of interesting myths, legends, 

 fables, folk-songs, proverbs, and supersti- 

 tions of many lands, about the swallow. 



Heredity and Eugenics. A course of lectures 

 summarizing recent advances in know- 

 ledge in varition, heredity, and evolution 

 and its relation to plant, animal, and 

 human improvement and welfare. By 

 William Ernest Castle, John Merle Coult- 

 er, Charles Benedict Davenport, Edward 

 Murray East, William Lawrence Tower. 

 Chicago; The University of Chicago 

 Press. 

 The lectures which constitute this book 

 were not intended exclusively for those train- 

 ed in biology, but for a general university 

 audience, interested in the progress of ge- 

 netics as a matter of information rather than 

 for study. Consequently a much larger audi- 

 ence than the one originally addressed will 

 be interested in this summary of results in 

 one of the important and most recently 

 cultivated fields of biology. 



Field and Laboratory Guide... Part 1. Prin- 

 ciples of Economic Zoology. By L. S. 

 Daugherty, M. S. Ph. D., and M. C. Daugh- 

 erty. Philadelphia; W. B. Saunders 

 Company. Cloth, $1.25 net. 

 Part 1 is designed to bring the student 

 into contact with the animal world in its 

 manifold relations, and contains many valu- 

 able and practical suggestions. It is, of 

 course, self-evident that things that the stu- 

 dent cannot get from the animal in the 

 laboratory, he should get from the study of 

 the animal in the field. The two parts con- 

 stitute an admirable method of obtaining 

 material ana arriving at the principles per- 

 taining thereto. 



Everyday Birds. By Bradford Torrey. Bos- 

 ton: Houghton Mifflin Company. 



This is an elementary treatment of a 

 few of our common birds. It speaks in 

 a manner as simple as that of a teacher in 

 a primary school. The descriptions and 

 the anecdotes are from original observa- 

 tions by the famous author, whose charm- 

 ing descriptions and philosophies regard- 

 ing nature in "A Rambler's Lease," and "The 

 Clerk of the Woods," have endeared him to 

 thousands of students and lovers of nature. 



The illustrations are in colors. 



Practical, if not Poetic. 



The popular supposition that all authors 

 are, by nature, unpractical is disproved by 

 the story of the unpoetic novelist that Mr. 

 W. D. Howells tells in the Washington Star. 



McMasters was walking with a beautiful 

 girl in a wild New England wood. 



"What is your favorite flower, Mr. McMas- 

 ters?" the girl asked, softly. 



McMasters thought a moment, then cleared 

 his throat and answered: 



"Well, I believe I like the whole wheat 

 best." — Youth's Companion. 



The Genuine and the Counterfeit. 



We have none too many books per- 

 taining to nature. Indeed, could the 

 habit of reading them be more gener- 

 ally induced that publisher who would 

 offer extra inducements for their writ- 

 ing would be a philanthropist, for that 

 way lies health and medicine of spirit 

 and much needed relief from life's fret- 

 ful fever. Nature, in this sense, is the 

 great mother of us all, and happy is 

 he who does not wander too far away 

 to sometimes relish in a homecoming. 



Those who produce nature litera- 

 ture are of two kinds — the genuine and 

 the counterfeit. The latter is one who 

 with a pale, reflected knowledge of na- 

 ture, uses it as a peg on which to hang 

 fine writing. The former has his un- 

 mistakable traits, and is known of ail 

 his brethren. If he is permeated to the 

 core with love of the all-mother; if in 

 his communion with her visible forms 

 she really sneaks to him a varied lan- 

 guage; if, under her spell thoughts are 

 liberated and inspiration gleams, then 

 the fact will out, no matter what the 

 style of expression. — The Indianapolis 

 News. 



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