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Home Nature-Study Course. 



In the increasing complexities of our liz'cs we need nothing so much 

 as simplicity and repose. In city or country or on the sea, nature is the 

 surrounding condition. It is the universal environment. Since we can- 

 not escape this condition, it were better that zee have no desire to escape. 

 It zvere better that zve knoiv the things, great and small, zvhich make up 

 this environment, and that we live zvith them in harmony, for all things 

 arc of kin; then shall zve love and be content. 



All men love nature if they but knezv it. The methods and fashions 

 of our living obscure the universal passion. The more perfect the ma- 

 chinery of our lives the more artiUcial do they become. Teaching is 

 ever more methodical and complex. The pupil is impressed zvith the vast- 

 ness of knozvledge and the importance of research. TJiis is zvcll ; but at 

 some point in the school-life there should be the opening of the under- 

 standing to the simple zvisdom of the fields. One's happiness depends 

 less on zvhat he knows than on zvhat he feels. 



L. H. Bailey in " The Nature Study Idea." 



Drawn by a lad of thirteen years. 



A Muskrat. 



The editor wishes to acknowledge the courtesy of the Doubleday Page 

 Company in giving the use of the engravings from " Plow to Keep Bees " 

 for illustrating the lessons on the Honey Bee in this leaflet. 



