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THE GUIDE TO NATURE LITERARY NOTES 



How TO Use New Thought in Home Life. 



By Elizabeth Towne. Holyoke, Mass. : The 



Elizabeth Towne Company. 



Mrs. Towne has here answered almost 

 every conceivable question relating to the 

 home life, to the problems of husbands, wives 

 and children. She shows how -to apply New 

 Thought in the home to promote happy and 

 efficient living, to make the home a successful 

 and happy cooperative colony versus an indi- 

 vidualistic hades 



Illustrations of a Thousand Shells. Part 

 H. By Y. Hirase, Karasumaru, Kyoto, Japan. 

 Part I of this interesting series has already 

 been reviewed in this magazine. Those of our 

 readers who were interested in that will be 

 glad to know that the second part has been is- 

 sued. The book is beautifully bound in silk and 

 is made to open in an unique way as a contin- 

 uous strip of paper, llie illustrations are 

 peculiar to Japanese art, and are beautiful. The 

 price of the book is $1.50 postpaid. 



War and World Government. By Frank 

 Crane, D. D. New York : John Lane Co. 

 Rarely has any one man exterted so wide 

 an influence upon the thought of the people 

 as has Dr. Frank Crane. His ideas are con- 

 structive, progressive, yet sane. He has some- 

 thing to say, and he says it in the simplest 

 possible way. His editorial utterances on the 

 subject of war have been published in many 

 leading newspapers of the United States and 

 Canada, and are here gathered in a volume. 

 The keynote to all is an appeal for inter- 

 national influence which, the talented writer 

 claims, is the only way in which to abolish 

 war's horrors. 



The Whole Year Round. By Dallas Lone 

 Sharpe. Boston : Houghton ]\Iiffl"m Company. 

 This book is designed especially for chil- 

 dren, and by experience the author knows 

 whereof he writes, for he says that when he 

 was a child he roamed the fields as he still 

 does with all the child's love of freedom and 

 all his joy in the companionship of wild 

 things. For these things he is asking the chil- 

 dren of the present day to tramp the fields. 

 He himself is still a child at heart and he still 

 loves the ways of wild folk. He rightly says 

 that ordinary things are ordinary only because 

 we have not watched them nor thought about 

 them. The method of going should be "bare- 

 foot when we can, in rubber boots if we must; 

 sometimes with a fish-pole, sometimes with a 

 hoe ; sometimes with a camera — but never 

 with a gun ; and if we see nothing more than 

 the sky and the earth, we shall not have had 

 our tramp in vain — not if the skv is full of 

 clouds or storm or stars; and not if the earth 

 is full of wideness and freshness and free- 

 dom ; and not if our hearts are full of — it 

 may be, of those strange deep feelings that 

 the hearts of children know." 



Atlas Designed to Illustrate Burritt's Ge- 

 ography OF THE Heavens. By Hiram Mat- 

 tison, A. M. A new edition, revised and 

 corrected. New York : American Book 

 Company. 



This department is intended for notices of 

 new books. It is an unusual experience for 

 the reviewer to be called on to speak of 

 a work originally published several years 

 before he was born. He well remembers 

 this as a book of his earliest boyhood. He 

 was then delighted with the outlines of the 

 mythological animals and other fancies that 

 live in the sky. The heavens in this book 

 and the book itself perpetually renew their 

 youth and charm. This atlas gave joy to 

 fathers and grandfathers and to boys and 

 girls of more than a half century ago, and 

 yet here it is to-day, revised, corrected and 

 ready to tell of the ancient shepherds' queer 

 astronomical fancies. Every amateur astrono- 

 mer should have the book ; others who get it 

 will become amateur astronomers. 



The Lure of the Land. By Harvey W. 



Wiley, M. D. New York : The Century 



Company. 



Dr. Wiley is known everywhere for his dis- 

 cussion of the pure food laws. He has 

 written an ideal book in which he considers 

 both the advantages and the disadvantages of 

 leaving the city for the country. He says : 



"From my point of view I would set forth 

 for the average man of average nieans, who 

 wishes to indulge the natural desire for coun- 

 try life, the dangers and difficulties, as well as 

 the advantages and successes, of making his 

 home on the farm. 



"It is evident that those who live in the 

 country must earn a living, but in doing this 

 there is no need that all of the beauties of 

 rural life should be sacrificed until it be- 

 comes a burden unbearable. It is not difficult 

 to understand how the youth brought up on a 

 farm turns his longing eyes towards the town. 

 The conditions of farm life, as a rule, are 

 not such as to attract or to hold the farmer's 

 son or daughter. Life does not consist alone 

 in watching the beautiful sunrise, in stroll- 

 ing through a shady forest, or wandering by 

 a babbling brook. To the farmer's boy life 

 means early rising, hard and continuous la- 

 bor, plain and often poorly cooked food, hard 

 beds, and an absence of all the opportunities 

 which the youth so strongly desires. It is just 

 as natural for the farmer's bov to look 

 towards the town as it is for the town boy_ to 

 look towards the country, but these conflicting 

 desires arise from dififerent sources." 



The last sentence raises a question. I 

 wonder how many town boys do look long- 

 ingly toward the country. I wish someone 

 could tell us that, and just how we may aid 

 those boys. In what are they interested and 

 how may that interest be developed into real 

 knowledge and love of the country? 



