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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



The Efficient Life. By Luther Gulick, M. D. 

 New York: Doubleday, Page & Com- 

 pany. 

 The chapters of this book were originally 

 lectures delivered at the School of Peda- 

 gogy, New York University. They contained 

 some excellent suggestions for making life 

 count to the very most in any line of activity. 

 Most certainly the diligent naturalist needs 

 to conserve his energy as much as does any 

 other person, and we are confident this 

 book contains much of interest to our read- 

 ers. 



Trees of the Northern United States. Their 

 Study, Description and Determination 

 for the Use of Schools and Private Stu- 

 dents. By Austin C. Apgar. New York: 

 American Book Company. 



"The difficulty in tree study by the aid 

 of the usual botanies lies mainly in the fact 

 that in using them the first essential parts 

 to be examined are the blossoms and their 

 organs. These remain on the trees a very 

 short time, are often entirely unnoticed on 

 account of their small size or obscure color, 

 and are usually inaccessible even if seen. 

 In this book the leaves, the wood, the bark, 

 and, in an elementary way, the fruit are 

 the parts to which the attention is directed; 

 these all can be found and studied through- 

 out the greater part of the year, and are 

 just the parts that must be thoroughly 

 known by all who wish to learn to recognize 

 trees." 



Out- of -Doors in The Holy Land. Impres- 

 sions of Travel in Body and Spirit. By 

 Henry Van Dyke. Illustrated. New 

 York City: Charles Scribner's Sons. 



The author of "Little Rivers" has made 

 many phases of commonplace out-of-doors 

 a holy land, by the charming manner in 

 which he has portrayed and idealized the 

 beauty and interest of nature. Probably 

 that fact is accountable for his statement. 

 "For a long time, with hopefulness and con- 

 fidence of youth, I dreamed of going to 

 Palestine." 



The two following paragraphs from the 

 preface, are well worth careful reading and 

 re-reading. They were written by a natur- 

 alist who believes in reality, who recog- 

 nizes a God in His Works, and yet, the au- 

 thor delicately cautions and suggests that 

 one may be "rudely shaken" by reality, 

 may not see aright and thus be disappointed. 



"Then, for a long time, in the hardening 

 strain of early manhood, I was afraid to 

 go to Palestine, lest the journey should 

 prove a disenchantment, and some of my 

 religious beliefs be rudely shaken, perhaps 

 destroyed. But that fear was removed by 

 a little voyage to the gates of death, where 

 it was made clear to me that no belief is 

 worth keeping unless it can bear the touch 

 of reality 



"If what you read here makes you wish 

 to go to the Holy Land, I shall be glad; 

 and if you go in the right way, you surely 

 will not be disappointed." 



The Haunts of the Golden-winged Warbler. 



With notes on migration, nest building, 

 song, food, young, eggs, etc. By J. War- 

 ren Jacobs. Waynesburg, Pennsylvania: 

 Independent Printing Company. 



This is No. Ill of a series of pamphlets 

 by the author on his researches in ornith- 

 ology and oology. The plates are from 

 photographs by the author and are accom- 

 panied by proper explanations. The pamph- 

 let shows the spirit of a true ornithologist. 



How much better to study one subject in 

 this manner than to write yards of eulogies, 

 emotions and observations on everything in 

 the heavens above, the earth beneath and 

 the waters under the earth. 



The Freshwater Aquarium and its Inhabi- 

 tants. By Otto Eggeling and Frederick 

 Ehrenberg. New York: Henry Holt and 

 Company. 



The present book is the result of the care- 

 ful collaboration of a professional aquarist 

 and a very enthusiastic amateur. While the 

 professional aquarist gives his experiences 

 collected through a quarter of a century in 

 an extensive business, offering the best op- 

 portunity for observing fishes, amphibians 

 and aquatic plants, both as to their habits 

 and their merits for the aquarium, the ama- 

 teur adds the result of his observation in 

 forest and glen, and his experience under 

 the often trying home conditions which pre- 

 vail with the average amateur aquarist. 



The Ministry of Beauty. By Stanton Davis. 

 Kirkham. New York: Paul Elder and 

 Company. 



"Over and above all common necessity is. 

 the divine necessity of beauty : beauty en- 

 circling all, back of all, in all, and its. 

 purpose moral, its perception joy; hence, 

 if for no other reason, its bearing upon life 

 and the problem of happiness. As with a 

 glass we focus the sun's rays, so do the 

 laws of the universe converge in our daily 

 thought. We are here under the sway of the 

 grandest laws and inseparably linked with 

 the sublime and unutterable, as every drop 

 of water is hitched to the moon and every 

 grain of sand tied to the center of the earth. 



"To be wise and kind is to enlist the uni- 

 verse in our behalf, to focus cosmic rays- 

 of love here in our hearts. Witness then 

 the Ministry of Beauty drawing us ever 

 from circumference to center; from blue- 

 birds and violets and the blossoming apple, 

 from snowy range and midnight sky and 

 the expanse of moonlit ocean, to the love 

 of these to the ultimate recognition of the 

 nature and purpose of beauty itself, the 

 perception that beauty is within, that only 

 to an inner loveliness is the landscape fair, 

 that to an inner sublimity alone is any out- 

 ward grandeur. 



"From the self-same source have we the 

 elixir of love divine and the milk of human 

 kindness, from thence beauty forever flows 

 to refresh the worlds and to stimulate man 

 to its recognition." 



