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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



D'ri and I. A Tale of Daring Deeds in the 

 second War with the British. Being the 

 Memoirs' of Colonel Ramon Bell, U. S. A. 

 By Irving Bacheller. Illustrated by P. C. 

 Yohn. New York : Harper and Brothers. 



"D'ri and I" is a spirited tale of love and 

 action in the war-times of 1812. Its scene 

 is laid in the North Country, and D'ri, with 

 his rugged strength, rough humor, and un- 

 daunted courage, is a splendid type of the 

 time and genuine creation. 



Silas Strong; Emperor of the Woods. By 



Irving Bacheller. New York: Harper and 

 Brothers. 



A story of the Adirondacks, replete with 

 the spirit of the woods. "Uncle Sile" is a 

 philosopher who thinks much and says little 

 — a "one-word man," but a genuine humorist, 

 with fountains of sly laughter in him. The 

 heroine is a delightful daughter of the wood- 

 lands, and her romance breathes of the 

 mountain air. Altogether it is the best and 

 strongest story Mr. Bacheller has yet writ- 

 ten. 



Eben Holden's Last Day A-Fishing. By 



Irving Bacheller. New York: Harper and 

 Brothers. 



This is a new story of Eben Holden. It 

 reveals' him, old though he is, a true lover 

 of good sport, and shows that time cannot 

 change his gentle humor, his caustic wis- 

 dom, and his simple kindness. The book 

 gives' two pictures, one of fishing on a sum- 

 mer day, the other of Christmas-time in 

 Eben Holden's old-fashioned country home. 



Barrel of the Blessed Isles. By Irving 

 Bacheller. Illustrated by Arthur I. Kel- 

 ler. Boston : Lathrop Publishing Com- 

 pany. 



Darrell, the clock tinker, is a wit, phil- 

 osopher, and man of mystery. Learned, 

 strong, kindly, dignified, he towers like a 

 giant above the people among whom he 

 lives. In him Mr. Bacheller has created a 

 character as new and lovable as Eben 

 Holden but more fascinating. 



The Master. By Irving Bacheller. New York: 

 Doubleday, Page and Company. 



This is a wholesome and unique tale of 

 outdoor life. It has a great hero, who with- 

 out a word of preaching lives a great life. 



Vergilius. A Tale of the Coming Christ. 

 By Irving Bacheller. New York: Harper 

 and Brothers. 



This beautiful and stirring story opens in 

 Rome, is straightway transferred to Jeru- 

 salem and Jericho, and ends in Bethlehem 

 with the birth of Christ. While depicting 

 the momentous events of those times as they 

 affected the hero and heroine, two young 



patrician Roman lovers, the story has woven 

 through its mazes like a thread of pure gold 

 the growing expectancy of the coming Christ 

 and the gradual growth of the higher con- 

 ceptions of human love. 



Eben Holden. A Tale of the North Coun- 

 try. By Irving Bacheller. New York: 

 Harper and Brothers. 



If, in the far future, our successors wish 

 to know what were the real life and at- 

 mosphere in which the country folk that 

 saved this nation grew, loved wrought, and 

 had their being, they must go back to such 

 true and zestful poetic tales of "fiction" as 

 "Snow Bound" and ''Eben Holden." — Ed- 

 mund Clarence Stedman. 



New Physical Geography. By Ralph S. Tarr, 

 B.S. New York: The Macmillan Company. 



This is a more detailed presentation of 

 the science than that in the earlier book 

 by the same author, "Lessons in Physical 

 Geography." 



Professor Tarr modestly says: "The au- 

 thor does not flatter himself that he has 

 produced the ideal: his only hope is that 

 he has done better in his third attempt 

 than he did in the other two." 



Lessons in Physical Geography. By Charles 

 R. Dryer, M.A., F.G.S.A. Professor of 

 Geography, Indiana State Normal School. 

 New York: American Book Company. 



In this book the best type form of phy- 

 sical features are treated in sufficient full- 

 ness to give a clear and definite picture. 

 From these type forms' the student can 

 easily solve many geographical problems. 



The Nature-Study Idea. An Interpretation 

 of New School-Movement to put the Young 

 into Relation and Sympathy with Nature. 

 By L. H. Bailey. New York: The Mac- 

 millan Company. 



Here is a book that teaches "nature-study" 

 that is living, and for life, not for a tem- 

 porary fill-a-requirement in the schoolroom. 

 The author truly says : 



"Nature-study is not synonymous with the 

 old term 'natural history," nor with 'biology,' 

 nor with 'elementary science.' It is not 

 'popular science.' It is not of the study of 

 nature merely. Nature may be studied with 

 either of two objects, to discover new truth 

 for the purpose of increasing the sum of hu- 

 man knowledge; or to put the pupil in 

 a sympathetic attitude toward nature for 

 the purpose of increasing his joy of living. 

 The first object, whether pursued in a tech- 

 nical or elementary way, is a science-teach- 

 ing movement, and its professed purpose is 

 to make investigators and specialists. The 

 second object is a nature-study movement, 

 and its purpose is to enable every person 

 to live a richer life, whatever his business 

 or profession may be." 



