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Twenty-five Bird Songs for Children. 

 Words and Music by W. B. Olds, with 

 an Introduction by Henry Oldys. New 

 York City: G. Schirmer. 

 Here is a good idea well worked out. The 

 bits of melody that fill the solitudes of na- 

 ture offer a fascinating field of discovery to 

 musicians as well as to poets and prose 

 writers. It is a curious fact that we go to 

 the woods to hear the music of the birds, as 

 well as to think about them, yet there have 

 been published a thousand words for one 

 note of the music. It is the musician above 

 all others that can find or should find keen 

 enjoyment and actual inspiration in such 

 study. Mr. Olds has supplied the words 

 and music, and Mr. Oldys has told us inspir- 

 ingly what those words and music sliould 

 mean to every naturalist. The publisher has 

 done his part well. The entire creditable 

 performance we cordially recommend to our 

 readers. 



The Diatom.\ceae of Philadelphia and 

 Vicinity. By Charles S. Boyer, A. M., 

 F. R. M. S. Supplied by Edward Pen- 

 nock, 3609 Woodland Avenue, Phila- 

 delphia, Pennsylvania. 

 When one thinks of microscopical mate- 

 rial there comes simultaneously to mind the 

 thought of Edward Pennock, 3609 Wood- 

 land Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

 He has one of the best collections of all 

 kinds of bargains in the way of second- 

 hand microscopes, accessories, books, cam- 

 eras, lenses and other instruments. When 

 you cannot find it anywhere else or when 

 you want to make a little money go a long 

 way, consult Pennock. He has been a spoke 

 in the microscopical wheel for many a year. 

 He knows and appreciates the enthusiasms 

 of the amateur in microscopy, and he knows 

 what the amateur will like in the way of a 

 volume on the diatoinaceae. This book is 

 a sumptuous volume, with magnificent 

 plates that will delight any student of these 

 marvelously beautiful microscopic forms of 

 plant life. We older workers with the mi- 

 croscope look back longingly to those days 

 when the study of diatoms was at fever 

 heat, but it is coming in again. Utility is 

 bringing back much of it in the publication 

 of interesting monographs regarding public 

 water supplies, the algae and the tiny ani- 

 mals found in all the fresh waters, but there 

 are many people who love the diatoms for 

 their own sake, as they love the desmids, 

 rotifers. Entomostraca, and thousands of 

 other delightful forms. Happy is the man 

 who has found his microscope and a ditch 

 of water. He is in the Elysian fields. 



Morning Face. By Gene Stratton-Porter. 

 Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 

 Page & Company. 



A few years ago, a tiny girl-child came 

 into the home of Gene Stratton-Porter, with 

 heart full of joy and sunshiny smile that 

 continually recalled to Mrs. Porter, Steven- 

 son's line in "The Prayer": "Call us up with 

 morning faces." So "Morning Face" the 

 child was called. 



From the hour of this little girl's birth, 

 Mrs. Porter improvised for her amusement 

 endless sing-song chants, rhymes, jingles, 

 and told stories about the flowers, birds and 



MORNING FACE AND HER MOTHER. 



animals surrounding the Cabin in Wild- 

 flower Woods, and made funny pictures to 

 illustrate them. 



Then came the inevitable day when 

 "Morning Face" demanded that her stories 

 and pictures be made into a book, and a lit- 

 tle later the further request that her book 

 be "made like the other books," so that she 

 could give copies of it to her little relatives 

 and playmates. So here it is, reproduced 

 for all children, exactly as Mrs. Porter made 

 it for the one child of her heart. 



Dtity is so obviotts that nobody, men- 

 tally unperverted, need fail to see it — 

 duty to those we love, duty to employ- 

 ers, duty to one's native land, duty to 

 one's God, whose existence cannot be 

 doubted on a clear night, when the 

 stars and other worlds are on parade — 

 Tulitis Chambers in the "Brooklyn 

 Eagle." 



