The Foremost Recent Book on Animals 

 By ERNEST INGERSOLL 



LIFE OF ANIMALS: The 



Mammals 



Second Edition, Enlarged. 555 Pages, Octavo. Decorated Cloth. 

 250 Illustrations. $2 net; By Mail, $2.24. 



THE idea of the book is to interest the reader in the life of the four-footed 

 animals, not in their anatomy, nor in their imaginary sentiments; but in the 

 part they daily play in the world around them, rather than in their posi- 

 tion in a museum or a scheme of classification. This presentation of the theme has 

 met with general approval. The critic of The Independent believes that it "contains 

 just the information about living and extinct species of mammals, especially those 

 most familiar, which the general non-zoological reader demands." Putnam's Monthly 

 has declared it "the best book of its kind which has appeared up to the present 

 time." Says the Chicago Post : "Ernest Ingersoll has for a long while been doing fine 

 work . . . 'The Life of Animals' is just the book one wishes might be in every 

 home where there are children and young people. Mr. Ingersoll has in excellent 

 degree the knack of presenting in clear, sympathetic and attractive manner scien- 

 tific information, zoological and geological, and with it a free mingling of the his- 

 torical, the romantic and the adventurous. There is, however, a commendable 

 absence of the . . . exaggeration of the human-like qualities in animals." 



Along with this popularity the scientific accuracy of the book is well recognized, 

 and it has been adopted as a book of instruction in colleges. Nowhere else is so 

 intelligently traced the relation between the past (fossil history) and the present of 

 the families in this most important of all animal tribes; nowhere else will be found 

 explained many curious customs, such as the origin of the habit of storing winter 

 food, how the opossum came to "play 'possum," etc. 



By the same author 



WILD NEIGHBORS: Outdoor Studies in 

 the United States 



With numerous photographic illustrations. Cloth, $1.50 



"Such pleasant books as this of Mr. IngersoH's are delightful to both old and 

 young, and ought to be put into the hands of every lad on the farm." — Detroit 

 Free Press. 



THE MACMILLAN COMPANY, PUBLISHERS 

 NEW YORK 



