By W. T. HORNADAY 



The 



Minds and Manners 



of Wild Animals 



Illustrated 



This, the most recent book by the prominent American naturalist, 

 is the result of fifteen years of observation in the wilds and twenty-five 

 years as the curator of the New York Zoological Park, the world's 

 greatest collection of wild animals in captivity. "The wild animal 

 must think or die," declares the author. 



11 His book is full of authentic and absorbing stories, stories of mother- 

 hood, of defeated impulses, of astonishing adaptability, of wonderful 

 patience under difficulties, of crime and of self-sacrifice — stories of 

 which it may be said that, indeed, they almost seem to reveal to us the 

 main sources of all our art and literature." 



— Thomas L. Masson in the New York Times. 



"One of the most entertaining and thoroughly enjoyable books on 

 natural history which has appeared in a long time." 



— New York Tribune. 



"More interesting than most novels." — New York Globe. 



"Perhaps never before has a naturalist of such distinguished rank 

 compiled in a systematic and logical relation such a mass of informa- 

 tion as this enthralling and rarely valuable book holds." 



— Boston Transcript. 



