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SPACE LIMITS 



The Bulletin is but a little book with a large and increasing circle of 

 real friends. Every month the editors receive stories and items of such 

 general interest that they are glad to use all they have room for. Others 

 they save hopefully for the next issue, only too often to find that it is quite 

 impossible to squeeze material enough for ten pages into six or seven. 

 Often, therefore, good matter perforce goes over from month to month, and 

 sometimes never gets used at all. This issue contains twelve pages instead 

 of the usual eight, because of this press of matter that really ought to be 

 included, and still there is a waiting list. The editors appreciate this in- 

 terest among the Bulletin's friends. They hope it will continue and in- 

 crease, and perhaps some day we may be able to publish a Bulletin big 

 enough to contain it all. 



BOOK REVIEWS 



^'^Bruce," by Albert Payson Terhune, E. P. Button aivd Co. Price S2.00 

 net. If you love a good dog, if you love a good story, if adventure and 

 heroism and devotion interest you, you should read "Bruce." Bruce was a 

 splendid collie. He served as a war dog in the great war, helping the allies, 

 tackling the Boche and doing his duty in a devoted, generous way that was 

 as fine in spirit and results as the work of any soldier. 



'TAe Burgess Bird Book for Children," by Thornton W. Burgess, Little, 

 Brown & Co., price $2.50. Uncounted thousands of children read Thornton 

 W. Burgess's outdoor books, Adventures of Reddy Fox, Sammy Jay and 

 other children of Mother West Wind. These grow in number by the scores, 

 yet there cannot seem to be too many of them. One of the latest and best 

 is the "Burgess Bird Book for Children." Through it Peter Rabbit and 

 Reddy Fox scamper as in the other books, but it is filled with wholesome, 

 informative, interesting tales of useful and beautiful wild birds. No child 

 but will read it with joy and learn at the same time interesting and useful 

 items of natural history. For little folks it is the bird book of the year, and 

 all live boys and girls should have it. 



^''Adventures Among Birds," by W. H. Hudson, E. P. Button and Co^., 

 price $4.00 net. This is not a book of sporting reminiscences. To kill 

 a wild bird is in the author's eyes to commit a crime. His own preference 

 for the title, as given by himself, would be "Adventures of a Soul among the 

 Feathered Masterpieces of Creation." 



The book is written with that sympathy and understanding, that beauty 

 and simplicity of language which have made Mr. Hudson's works a joy to 

 all lovers of wild life. 



Mr. Hudson has a definite object in this volume: it is to reveal to the 

 unsuspecting person who is neither a poet nor a naturalist what pleasure may 

 be added to life simply by the observation of the common wild birds. In all 

 its more than three hundred pages you dwell intimately with the author and 

 his feathered friends of villqge and farm, see them with the eyes of the 

 wise naturalist, and inevitably love them as he does. 



