BOOK NOTICES. 



Any volume here noticed will be sent prepaid upon 

 receipt of the price by A. W. iVIumford, 203 Michi- 

 gan Ave., Chicago, 111. 



The Butterfi^y Book. By W. J. Holland, 

 D.D., Ph.D. and LL.D. Doubleday & 

 McClure, New York. 4to, pp. 370, cloth, 

 $3.00. 



Dr. Holland is the American authority 

 on butterflies, and he has certainly the 

 finest collection in existence of the North 

 American varieties. He has written this 

 volume with the aim of popularizing their 

 study, telling of their life and habits and 

 pointing out to the amateur how they may 

 be identified and collected. The color-plates 

 show hundreds of specimens, photographed 

 direct from the butterflies themselves and 

 presenting to a marvelous degree the exact 

 tones and shades of the fascinating orig- 

 inals. They represent the highest mark yet 

 reached by color-photography, and, with 

 text illustrations, show all the important 

 American species. 



Bird Homes. By A. Radclyffe Dugmore. 

 Illustrated. Doubleday & McClure, New 

 York. 4to, pp. 175, cloth, $2.00. 

 This is a popular and intimate account 

 of the nests, eggs and breeding habits of 

 the land birds that nest in the Eastern 

 United States. It is the first time that this 

 fascinating subject has been adequately 

 treated for the general reader, and the book 

 is a revelation of bird "personality" in 

 many ways. Particularly notable are the 

 illustrations (in color and black and white), 

 all of which were made directly from the 

 nests and birds by the author. The notes 

 on bird photography and on the rearing of 

 young birds give information not obtaina- 

 ble elsewhere and of great interest to 

 nature-lovers and students. 



Bird Notes Afield. By Charles A. Keller. 

 A Series of Essays on the Birds of Cali- 

 fornia. D. P. Elder and Morgan 

 Shepard, San Francisco, Calif. 16mo, 

 pp. 353, $1.50. 



This book is wonderfully interesting to 

 scientists and students alike. The whole 

 subject is treated in a masterly way, and 

 the author has certainly given something to 

 the public worthy of its confidence. The 

 volume should be in the hands of all bird- 

 lovers. 



A Guide to the Wii,d Flowers. By Alice 



Eounsberry. Introduction by Dr. N. L. 



Britton. Illustrated by Mrs. Ellis Rowan. 



The Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York. 



16mo, pp. 347, $2.00. 



A most artistic volume by the atithor of 

 "A Guide to the Trees," illustrated with 

 plates in the colors of nature and ntimerous 

 drawings of the fresh flowers in or near 

 their homes. About five hundred plants 

 are described in these pages, classified 

 according to the kind of soil in which the 

 plants grow. It is especially useful as a 

 text-book for the instruction of beginners, 

 as it employs no technical terms that it does 

 not define and requires no other book to 

 make it intelligible. In fact, it makes a 



delightful and handy companion in the 

 woods, fields and roads, at the same time 

 enjoyable to the botanist as well as the non- 

 botanist. Dr. Britton says: " From a peda- 

 gogic standpoint nature studies are of the 

 utmost importance, as they bring the mind 

 to the consideration of the objective rather 

 than the subjective methods." The sixty- 

 four full-page colored plates which are re- 

 produced from original paintings by the 

 illustrator are accurate and true to nature. 



Nature's Garden. By Neltje Blanchan. 



Illustrated. Doubleday, Page & Co., 



New York. 4to, pp. 413, $3.00. 



The author of this beautifully illustrated 

 volume, no less a personage than the wife 

 of Mr. Doubleday, of Doubleday, Page & 

 Co., has given to lovers of nature an aid to 

 knowledge of our wild flowers and their 

 insect visitors. Intimate life histories of 

 over five hundred species of wild flowers, 

 written in untechnical language, emphasize 

 the interesting and vital relationship exist- 

 ing between these flowers and the special 

 insect to which each is adapted. The flow- 

 ers are divided into five color groujjs, by 

 which arrangement a novice can readily 

 identify the specimens he meets. The vari- 

 ous popular names by which each species is 

 known, its preferred dwelling-place, months 

 of blooming and geographical distribution 

 follow its description. This book contains 

 superb colored plates of fifty-six familiar 

 flowers in their living tints, and sixty-three 

 others in black and white, the secret of the 

 artistic beauty of which lies in the fact that 

 each blossom is photographed directly from 

 nature. These are truly a most attractive 

 and useful feature of the book. 



British Birds. By "W. H. Hudson, with 

 eight colored plates and 100 black and 

 white illustrations. Eongmans, Green 

 & Co., New York. 12mo, pp. 363, $2.50. 

 A brief account is given of the appear- 

 ance, language, and life-habits of all birds 

 of the British islands. Of the 250 birds de- 

 scribed we notice about forty-five that may 

 be termed American birds, and it is surpris- 

 ing to find them in a wild state across the 

 Atlantic. 



Mr. Hudson's descriptions are brief but 

 fascinating, and he begins with the anat- 

 omy of the birds, as he believes the student 

 should know of the bird's insides as well as 

 its outsides. The full-page plates in the 

 colors of nature are of Golden Eagle, 

 Bearded Titmouse, Goldfinch, Bittern, Com- 

 mon Teal, Ptarmigan, Dotterel, Roseate 

 Tern. 



BiRD-EiFE. By Frank M. Chapman. D. Ap- 

 pleton & Co., N. Y. 16mo, pp. 261, 

 cloth, $2.00, 



Mr. Chapman needs no introduction to 

 the American public, as his contributions 

 have been large in the field of ornithology. 

 " Bird-Eif e " is certainly one of his best 

 productions, and should be in every home 

 and school in the land. It is illustrated in 

 an excellent manner, and the subject-mat- 

 ter presented in that easy and popular style 

 peculiar to the author. 



