The Story of ottr Trees : in Tuuenty-Jour Lessons. 



By Margaret M. Gregson, B.A. 



The Cambridge Nature Study Series. Large Crown Svo. pp. .\ii + i6o. 

 With 75 illustrations. Price 2J-. bd. net. 



Extract from the General Editor s Preface 



This book is to help children to study Nature, not to put 

 book study instead of Nature Study. The object of the book 

 is to direct and stimulate both observation and reflection. 



Many teachers have lately found in trees a convenient 

 topic for lessons, one that can be pursued in town or country, 

 summer or winter, indoors or out-of-doors. There may be 

 other teachers who would gladly give their pupils some 

 training in Nature Study, although they themselves do not 

 pretend to have special knowledge. Such an acknowledgment 

 of ignorance is itself a qualification for one who, an enquirer 

 himself, would lead others to enquire 



Great pains have been taken in the revision of these 

 chapters to fit them into the natural cycle of the seasons, 

 which is now widely accepted as the best order for nature 

 lessons, and is, indeed, the compulsory order if free use is to 

 be made of fresh material. The supplies necessary for each 

 lesson are clearly indicated. But the lessons have also been 

 adapted (and this is a much more difficult adaptation) to the 

 school year and, again, to the different years in use at different 

 schools 



The serious enquiries now being made into National 

 Afforestation show that we may have to enlist the sympathy 

 of boys and girls in the planting and protection of new wood- 

 lands A chapter on Forestry and tree planting will, therefore, 



be welcome 



The lessons are adapted to classes where the ages range 

 from 14 to 12 or even younger, that is to the higher standards 

 of elementary schools, to preparatory schools, to the lower 

 forms of secondary schools and especially to those who are 

 taught privately at home. 



Athenaeum. — It is a pleasure, among the worthless books published about 

 nature study in its various branches, to come upon Mrs Margaret 

 Gregson's ' Story of our Trees.' Her clear and exact work, and the 

 excellent drawings and photographs by which it is profusely illustrated, 

 should be of great use to the teacher, as well as the pupil. 



