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When Leaves Gkcw Old, and Other Poems. 

 By Egbert T. Bush. Boston, Massa- 

 chusetts: Sherman, French & Com- 

 pany. 

 Here are the beautiful thoughts of a true 

 lover of nature. The first poem, from which 

 the book takes its name, is so pleasing that 

 we have asked the author and the publish- 

 ers for permission to use it here. Other 

 poems that will interest our readers are, 

 "Daydreaming," "The Song of the Frog," 

 '"Other Days" and especially "Hafez the 

 Hermit." We are glad to introduce to our 

 readers this delightful student and lover 

 of nature. 



First Observatioxs ix Astroxomv. By Mary 

 E. Byrd, Ph. D. Concord, New Hamp- 

 shire: The Ruinford Press. 



The opening paragraph of the preface is 

 so true that we must pass it along: 



"Real knowledge in science depends upon 

 direct study of objects and phenomena. 

 Astronomy is no exception. Literally to 

 look up, to see with your own eyes and to 

 find out by seeing, — these things are the be- 

 ginnings of astronomy." 



This book is a guide to such observations. 

 The simple mechanical appliances suggested 

 and needed may be made by a carpenter or 

 by the student himself. 



A Handbook of New England. By Porter 

 E. Sargent. Boston, Massachusetts: 

 Porter E. Sargent. 

 A convenient handbook containing a wide 

 range of information in regard to New Eng- 

 land, its cities, their distinctive people, ori- 

 gin, history, their roads and highways, a 

 typical New England village, the aborigines 

 and slavery, famous New England poets, 

 pessimists and philosophers, the flora and 

 the biological environment, with road 

 routes and much valuable information about 

 highway construction. It is even now a 

 valuable book, but to make it still more so 

 the publishers invite suggestions for the 

 new edition of 1917. 



Primer of Bird-Study. By Ernest Ingersoll., 

 1974 Broadway, New York City: The 

 National Association of Audubon So- 

 cieties. 

 This book, as its name implies, teaches 

 how to study the bird, not merely to know 

 its name, song, environment and time of its 

 migration, and in addition includes a wide 

 range of subjects such as the anatomy of 



tlic bird, the colors and the growth of feath- 

 ers, musical methods, the bird's senses and 

 the character of the nests. Mr. Ingersoll 

 has conferred a favor upon bird lovers by 

 preparing this type of book. It fills a place 

 that was rather barren in the course of bird 

 study, doing in a simple manner what has 

 been previously done only in elaborate tech- 

 nical books. 



The Book of Forestery. By Frederick 

 Franklin Moon, B. A., M. F. New York 

 City: D. Appleton and Company. 

 A practical book on forestry which is 

 up-to-date and intelligible to junior readers, 

 and which is neither too technical for im- 

 mature minds nor too popularly written for 

 grown-ups. It is not a text-book nor an 

 instructive manual but rather a book of in- 

 formation on our original forests and the 

 forestry movement in this country — its 

 origin and present status. It will be of great 

 assistance to boys who love the woods and 

 wish to learn more about our trees and it 

 will be especially helpful to Boy Scouts who 

 are anxious to obtain merit badges on con- 

 servation, forest protection or fire preven- 

 tion. 



The Holy Earth. By L. H. Bailey. New 

 York City: Charles Scribner's Sons. 

 The author says that the earth is holy. I 

 agree with him. But it took me several years 

 to realize the fact. Apparently I am still 

 ahead of some of my fellow men for they 

 seem not yet to have realized it. This book 

 bore me back to very youthful days. Scene: 

 A country schoolroom. I was reading. Sud- 

 denly teacher and pupils burst into a gale of 

 laughter. I had made a laughal)le mispronun- 

 ciation. Later in life it dawned on me that 

 the error, if an error at all, was so only in 

 part. The sentence to be read was, "God made 

 earth for man to delve in." I announced 

 that "God made earth for man to devil in." 

 The teacher assured me that I was wrong, but 

 in later years I assured her I was right. But 

 even if man does not devil in the earth, he 

 too frequently looks on it as a prosaic, utili- 

 tarian object. He too frequently thinks of 

 the heavens as far above the earth, but lie 

 should not forget that it is God who created 

 the earth as well as the heavens and He pro- 

 nounced the planet good. It is evidently to 

 emphasize this thought that Professor Bailey 

 has written this book. Every naturalist comes, 

 in the later vears of his life more and more to 

 realize that 'thought. Extreme youth regards 



