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Bird-Lore for June reminds its readers 

 that an increase in our crops means not only 

 an added food-supply for man but also for 

 injurious insects as well. Agriculturists are 

 therefore urged to supply birds with shelter, 

 nesting-places, and water in order to attract 

 them to the vicinity of planted areas. This 

 plan of encouraging birds to live near us has 

 been termed "bird-gardening," and the 

 methods to be employed are presented at 

 length in this issue of Bird-Lore. 



A Lot o' Lovin'. By Chauncey Roscoe Piety. 



Louisville, Kentucky. The Standard 



Printing Company. 

 The reviewer, while lecturing before the 

 County Teachers' Institute in Scottsburg, 

 Indiana, met the Reverend Mr. Piety and at 

 his invitation gave a talk before the Chris- 

 tian Endeavor Society of the First Chris- 

 tian Church, and after the meeting took the 

 young people out to see the stars. From 

 this interview has been evolved an acquain- 

 tance by correspondence with this poetical 

 pastor, who is also an appreciative nature 

 lover. One poem, "The Child and the 

 Stars," the author says, was inspired by the 

 address to the young people. 



The Life of the Grasshopper. By J. Henri 

 Fabre. New York City. Dodd, Mead and 

 Company. 

 This is the seventh book in the transla- 

 tions being made by Mr. Teixeira from the 

 "Souvenirs Entomologiques" by the great 

 French naturalist, Fabre, who has been 

 called "the novelist of the insects." The 

 Fabre tradition of tireless observation, in- 

 genious experiment and eloquent interpre- 

 tation is continued in this story of the 

 grasshopper. Directly and simplv Fabre 

 sought only to record the truths revealed 

 through his ouiet research, but in doing so 

 he achieved a unique beauty of expression 

 and a nice interpretation of insect life to- 

 ward which modern science is turning with 

 ever increasing admiration. Of Fabre's 

 standing as a naturalist it is enough to say 

 that Charles Darwin valued him as an ob- 

 server of the very first order. 



Goldfish Varieties and Tropical Aouarium 

 Fishes. By William T. Innes. Philadel- 

 phia, Pennsylvania: Innes & Sons. 

 Blessings on William T. Innes! He is 

 the most enthusiastic one of us all when it 

 concerns aquaria, and he is right in assert- 

 ing that there is no other means of bring- 

 ing so complete a bit of nature into our 



homes as is afforded by an aquarium. Here 

 is an opportunity for the student, the artist, 

 the scientist and for those who simply love 

 pets. In the glass of the aquarium, we have 

 a window from which what we see is limit- 

 ed only by our own capacity for observa- 

 tion. William T. Innes believes in the 

 aquarium, not only for these reasons, but 

 because he possesses the real missionary 

 spirit of helpfulness to others. What he 

 does not know about aquaria, I fear will 

 not be discovered in this century. If you 

 want to see a man who is the very concen- 

 trated quintessence of enthusiasm, say, 

 "Aquarium," to Innes. He gets up in the 

 morning long before any other human be- 

 ing, and is off to the ponds to hunt for 

 daphnia and water plants. He dreams about 

 aquaria long after he has gone to bed. 



He believes that if a thing is worth doing 

 at all it is worth doing well. You may 

 search his house from attic to cellar, and 

 not find one of those cruel little things, 

 those little glass globes with a forlorn gold- 

 fish swimming around in it. No. He 

 makes his fish happy. He knows how to 

 do it and, best of all, he knows how to tell 

 other people how to do it. 



There are more foolish things, more really 

 cruel things, done with aquaria than we can 

 fully realize. There are not many aquarial 

 experts in this country, but there are hosts 

 of people who are thoughtlessly cruel or 

 cruelly thoughtless. The five cent stores 

 have popularized the subject. Many a flor- 

 ist dips out a little fish and sells it with a 

 tiny globe for only a few cents, and such 

 people mistakenly suppose that they are 

 naturalists. There is only one best way, 

 and that is the Innes way. He has no 

 monopoly of information on the subject; 

 there are other good workers and other 

 good books, but I do not know of any bet- 

 ter worker than Innes, nor any better book 

 than his. If you have an aquarium, get this 

 book by Innes and do what he tells you to 

 do. 



When a bit of sunshine hit ye 

 After passing of a cloud; 

 When a fit of laughter gits ye 

 An* ye'r spine is feelin' proud, 

 Don't forget to up and fling it 

 At the soul that's feelin' blue. 

 For the minit that you sling it 

 It's a boomerang to you. 



— Capt. Jack Crawford. 



