BOOK NOTICES. 



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The Curious Book of Birds. By Abbie Far- 

 well Brown. Houghton, Mifflin and Com- 

 panj', Boston and New York, 1903. i2mo., 

 pp. 191 plus xiv, illustrated, clolli. Price, 

 $1.10. 



This book is an interesting volume of an- 

 cient fancies concerning birds. From the 

 Greek, the Russian, the German, the French 

 and the folklore of many nations, the author 

 has collected these curious tales. There are 

 many books that tell of the habits of birds as 

 the twentieth century observer sees them. 

 These facts are always before us but the quaint 

 fancies about birds are in danger of being lost 

 in this practical age. In this volume, many 

 of these long-time fancies, which have been 

 taught to the world's children in all lands, 

 are presented to the reader. "They show 

 what the little feathered brothers have been 

 to the children of men." The author would 

 say with Whitman : 



'• Not jou alone, proud truths of the world. 

 Not you alone, ye facts of modern science, 

 But myths and fables of eld, Asia's, Africa's fables." 



Crystals and Gold. By Rev. R. T. Cross. 

 The Nebraska Newspaper Union, York, Ne- 

 braska, 1903. i2mo., pp. 192, cloth. Price, 

 |i.oo. 



This volume is not a scientific treatise on 

 crystals nor is it a novel. It is, however, a 

 simple and honest record of the thoughts and 

 experiences of a collector. It is a nature 

 book that will assist and interest all amateur 

 mineralogists. The first three chapters form 

 a dissertation on crystals; how they grow, their 

 forms, their hardness and weight, their colors 

 and the various phenomena that they exhibit. 

 Several chapters deal with the field experi- 

 ences of the author while collecting crystals 

 in various localities. Mr. Cross and a party 

 of boys discovered the "Cave of the Winds'' 

 near Manitou. A. chapter relates the experi- 

 ences of this exploring party and describes 

 the cave. This book is well worthy a place 

 on shelves of public-school or Sunday school 

 libraries. 



Industrial Picturt^s. 



Size 6 X g inches. 



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brief description. 



LUMBERING SET, TEN CENTS 



Lumber Camp A Log Jam 



Sawing Trees Log Thawing Pond 



Hauling Logs A Lumber Plant 



Steam Log Loader A Typical LumberYard 



Railway Logging in a Receiving Docks 



Forest Home Interior 

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It is only the ignorant who claim there is 

 nothing new under the sun. Each day is pro- 

 ductive of novelty. It is only a few months 

 since the discovery of Radium startled scient- 

 ists and the medical world is as yet as unex- 

 plored and rich with possibilities as it was in 

 the days of .i5sculapius. 



An accident has revealed many of the won- 

 ders of the modern medical world, so to acci- 

 dent we must attribute the new alleviator of 

 spinal woes, the spinal brush which a gentle- 

 man discovered from having his hair brushed 

 during his convalescence from a paralytic 

 stroke. The brush in passing over the occipi- 

 tal region produced an agreeable sensation, 

 and gave immediate relief from irritating 

 pain. 



Experiment improved on the ordinary hair 

 brush and the result has been of great satis- 

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