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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



Bird Lore for October is a Bird-Club 

 number, with articles on the forming and 

 conducting of bird clubs by Frank M. 

 Chapman, Ernest Harold Baynes, and 

 others. Reports from the leading bird clubs 

 of the country show that some of these 

 purely local organizations have as many as 

 500 members, and the interest they arouse in 

 Citizen Bird indicates that the bird-club 

 movement is possessed of a far-reaching 

 importance. 



Industrial and Vocational Education. By 

 S. H. Comings. 1140 Columbus Avenue, 

 Boston, Massachusetts : Christopher Pub- 

 lishing House. 



The scope of this interesting book is well 

 expressed in the dedication to all that desire 

 to see the supreme ambition of our civiliza- 

 tion turned from the effort to develop 

 things to the development of thehighestpos- 

 sible average type of manhood and woman- 

 hood; and to all who would see labor 

 spiritualized, and man's creative attribute 

 changed from the ideal of degradation to 

 that of communion with each other, and 

 with the infinite. 



The book is of especial local interest since 

 it devotes much attention to Mrs. Johnson's 

 School of Organic Education at Fairhope, 

 Alabama. Mrs. Johnson has a summer 

 school at Greenwich, Connecticut. In the 

 introduction, C. Hanford Henderson says: 



"There is a wholesome compromise be- 

 tween this extreme and the other extreme 

 represented by child labor. It lies, I think, 

 in having children do everything they pos- 

 sibly can for themselves, and then every 

 day something of real service for the gen- 

 eral good of the household." 



obtainable from a farm, the man adapted by 

 taste or natural inclination to a rural life 

 can be happy in the country, can there give 

 his children proper training and there make 

 them happy. The book is good to look at 

 and, perhaps better than this, it is good to 

 read. Its topics cover a wide range, and 

 are pleasingly treated. 



Connecticut and some other states would 

 do well if they should adopt some of New 

 York's methods. The trouble with many of 

 our rural schools in Connecticut is that they 

 follow too closely the methods of city 

 schools and turn the children's attention 

 toward the city. They are too well com- 

 mercialized and not well enough naturalized. 



Cornell Rural School Leaflet. An Issue 

 for Teachers. Ithaca. New York: The 

 Department of Rural Education, New 

 York State College of Agriculture at 

 Cornell LTniversity. 

 Here are nature study and agriculture in 

 delightful combination. "Nature study," 

 the editors say, "is the study of nature. 

 Every boy and girl should be encouraged to 

 find education and resources in the out-of- 

 doors. They should know the wild life 

 about them — the birds, the trees, the flowers, 

 and wood. They should take interest in the 

 the weds, the insects, the animals of field 

 soils, the rocks, the brooks, the hills, the 

 woodlot, the forest. They should learn to 

 love the music of the wind, the soughing of 

 the pines, the clear, true starlights, the rest- 

 fulness of rains, and the magic of the snows. 

 Love of nature is a valuable asset in the 

 lives of farm folk." 



The publication of such a plain, attractive, 

 common sense book on nature study in its 

 relation to farm life is encouraging. There 

 is the absence of that popular and foolish 

 teaching, that a city man can without pre- 

 vious experience remove to a farm and in 

 a few months make a fortune. The book 

 suggests nothing of the kind but does show 

 that in addition to any pecuniary returns 



How to Attract Wild Birds about the Home. 

 By Niel Morrow Ladd, President of the 

 Greenwich Bird Protective Society, Inc., 

 with an Introduction by Charles D. Lanier, 

 Greenwich, Connecticut : The Greenwich 

 Bird Protective Society, Inc. 

 This book, which includes the First An- 

 nual Report of the Greenwich Bird Protec- 

 tive Society, Inc., is extremely convenient 

 and attractive. Its literary form is good, 

 the illustrations are beautiful, meritorious, 

 mechanically perfect, and tell the story in 

 a manner not only instructive but inspiring. 

 Mr. Ladd is doing wonderful work. He de- 

 serves and will doubtless receive the hearty 

 support of bird lovers. He is an enthusias- 

 tice ornithologist and possessor of the busi- 

 ness ability to make that enthusiasm prac- 

 tical. We advise our readers to send 

 thirty-five cents for a copy of this unique 

 and attractive book. 



Nature Study Review 



Official Journal American Nature Study 

 Society 



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 will be filled with special art'cles from 

 practical teachers dealing with actual work, 

 methods and suggestions for School Gar- 

 dening, Elementary Agriculture, and Nature 

 Study. 



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