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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



schemes of human reverts they have tried, 

 and all found wanting but one. The only 

 satisfied the highest require- 

 monogamy. This is the wed- 

 highest kinds. The love-time 

 but another bond remains, 

 -fire of the foxes had paled a little 

 waning of the hunger moon, but 



plan that has 

 ments is pure 

 law of all the 

 fever passes, 

 The love- 

 with the 



a more abiding sense had supervened, even 

 as the sunset red on the hills may seem 

 more generous fire than the soft red of the 

 granite; but one is there a splendid moment, 

 the other forever and evermore. Love and 

 friendship men call them; and though the 

 flickering red light blazed "o bright at 

 times, it was the pale rock red that gave 

 its color to their lives. Domino and Snowy- 



From Talk to Text: or, A Likely Story!— 

 Likely Enough. By Addison Ballard. 

 New York City: Longmans, Green and 

 Company. 



Here are two quotations that give a sum- 

 mary of the spirit of the author and the 

 relation of the book, in its religious point 

 of view, to the study of nature: 



"In the world-making realm the preacher 

 begins with God and ends with the heavens 

 and the earth; the philosopher begins with 

 the heavens and the earth and ends with 

 God." 



"If 'On to Revelation' is the foreshadow- 

 ing command of Nature; 'Back to Nature' 

 is the confirming word of Revelation." 





AN INTERESTING FOX FAMILY 

 From Ernest Thompson Seton's "The Biography of a Silver-Fox: 

 Copyright 1909 by The Century Company. 



ruff were not only mates, but were friends 

 for life; for such is the way of the noblest 

 beasts, such is the way of foxes." 



The telling and the illustrations are 

 Thompson Seton's best. 



Solniell Astronomy. Being a Treatise on the 

 Origin of the Planets and Daylight by 

 Vibration. What Planets, Moons and 

 Comets Exist For, Also Explaining the 

 Working Method of the Entire Solar 

 System, the Object and the Use of All 

 the Heavenly Bodies that Hitherto Have 

 Been Unexplained. New York and San 

 Francisco, California: Albert Frederick 

 Schnell. 



The author makes some "startling" 

 •claims with which most of us will not 

 agree. Nevertheless, one can but admire 

 his enthusiasm in his curious theories and 

 ■explanations. 



The Gospel in the Stars: or, Primeval As- 

 tronomy. By Joseph A. Seiss, D. D., LL. 

 D. Fourth Edition. New York City: 

 Charles C. Cook. Price $1.50. 



This book seems to me misnamed. From 

 the title I supposed it to be the good news, 

 the inspiration, etc., of the stars. Some 

 one should write a book from that point of 

 view for the stars themselves have a gospel, 

 an uplifting effect upon those who read 

 aright. 



Dr. Seiss has attempted a task that he 

 in the opening line refers to as one that 

 may "seem adventurous" — to read the 

 Gospel of Christ from the stars from what 

 Herschel calls "those uncouth figures and 

 outlines of men and monsters usually scrib- 

 bled over celestial globes and maps." He 

 makes a good argument and shows not a 

 little ingenuity in working out this attempt. 



