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a way that is likely to interest anyone who has a liking for out- 

 door studies. The whole book treats of the animals and plants 

 in the vicinity of Chicago, where the meeting of prairie, forest 

 and lake shore gives a most varied set of habitats. It is an 

 octavo of more than four hundred pages and costs $3.75 net. 



A new book by Charles Francis Saunders, entitled "A Win- 

 dow in Arcady" chronicles the interesting features of the pas- 

 sing seasons as they have impressed the author while afield in 

 the country about Philadelphia. Saunders is always a charm- 

 ing writer and not only has the faculty of seeing the interest- 

 ing things in nature, but of seeing them in a new and attractive 

 light. The book contains twelve chapters, one for each month 

 in the year, and is illustrated with a number of excellent photo- 

 graphs by Heni-y Troth. It is published by Edward T. Biddle, 

 Philadelphia at $1.25 net. 



If the reviewer expected to spend a season on the Pacific 

 Coast, the first thing he would ask for, upon landing would be 

 a copy of Parsons' "Wildfiowers of California." Evidently a 

 good many others are of the same opinion, for a revised edition 

 of the book is now in its tenth thousand. The big fire that fol- 

 lowed the San Francisco earthquake destroyed the original 

 plates of the book, as well as the stock of printed volumns, but 

 a new edition was issued in 1906 and, so far as we know, is 

 the best popular manual to be had by the tourist interested in 

 California botany. It contains descriptions of all the common 

 wildflowers of the region and is illustrated by about 200 ex- 

 cellent drawings by Margaret Warren Buck. The book is 

 published by Cunningham, Curtis, Welch & Co., at $2.00 net. 



Helen Rutherfurd Ely, author of "A Woman's Hardy 

 Garden" has recently issued "The Practical Flower Garden" 

 from the press of the Macmillan Co. Books devoted to the 

 practical affairs of gardening fall into two classes : they may 

 give explicit directions for all sorts of planting and cultivating 



