6 Massachusetts Audubon Society 



BOOK NOTES 



Portraits and Habits of Our Birds. — These two volumes, elegantly- 

 bound in buckram and gold contain valuable material by many authors, 

 all expert bird men, edited by T. Gilbert Pearson. Each volume is illus- 

 trated by fifty full page colored plates by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Bruce 

 Horsfall and other artists of note and thirty or more drawings and photo- 

 graphs from nature. Here are the leaflets which have been issued, from 

 time to time by the National Association, bound in permanent and very 

 attractive form. They may be seen at the Audubon Society office, 66 

 Newbury Street, or will be mailed, postpaid, on receipt of price. $4.00 

 per volume, $8.00 for set. 



Dogs, Birds, and Others. — This book, published by E. P. Button & 

 Company, of New York, and selling at $3.00, is a compilation of natural 

 history letters from the London "Spectator" with an introduction and 

 note. It is dedicated to Ralph Hodgdon. A considerable portion of the 

 book is devoted to anecdotes of birds, intimate personal experiences of 

 various British correspondents. To all interested in animal life in general 

 and especially in dogs or birds, this collection of firsthand reports on ob- 

 servation and experience is at once valuable and most interesting reading. 



Bird Gossip. — George W. Jacobs & Co., of Philadelphia, pubhsh in 

 this most readable volume a collection of the personal experiences of 

 Harriet Wilbur in observing bird-life. Some of these are reprinted from 

 the "Christian Endeavor World," "The Youth's Companion," the "New 

 Country Life" and other periodicals. These are all well written, first- 

 hand stories, beautifully illustrated with colored plates from the leaflets 

 of the National Association of Audubon Societies. The book contains 

 much to interest and entertain as well as to encourage young and old to 

 personal observation and study of bird-Hfe. 



Old Plymouth Trails. — Author's edition, autographed copies are still 

 to be obtained of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. By mail, post- 

 paid, $3.50. The Boston Transcript says of this book: — "Mr. Packard 

 follows these trails and many more beside and much after the manner of 

 Thoreau — though far more entertainingly than he — he chats of the 

 footpaths and the wayside blossomings; and the birds overhead and the 

 birds which hide beneath the undergrowth; of the midsummer moonhght; 

 of the wild apple trees and their petals ; of the woodchuck and his manners ; 

 of the voices of the brookside and the ghosts upraised by the northeasters ; 

 of the mystical pastures and the white pine groves and the lore of the red 

 cedar; of pickerel fishing and of yule fires. He sees abundant beauties 

 where the ordinary traveller passes by on the other side and sees nothing 

 and makes no comment. Mr. Packard not only sees these beautiful 

 things, but he has the power of making his readers and followers see what 

 he sees and drink in the beauties which he offers them. 



"Many of the chapters of this very delightful book are somewhat 

 familiar already to Transcript readers, for they made their first appearance 

 as fleeting sketches in these columns. It will be pleasing to be able to 

 possess these very charming nature studies in a permanent form." 



Outdoor Bird Study. — A fifty page booklet, profusely illustrated, 

 prepared by Edward Howe Forbush, State Ornithologist of Massachusetts 

 for the use of beginners in bird study. It tells in interesting manner how 

 to find birds, how to know birds, how to approach birds and how to at- 



