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A Year Among the Trees 



By WILSON FLAGG 



Illustrated. Cloth. 300 pp. Price, $1.00 



The /\ocly Mounia/n 11 'or /d says: There are books and books. 

 Some have a life as brief as that of a butterfly ; others are to endure 

 as lonjiT as hmguageshall last, Uteratur flourish, and intellect crown 

 the noblest work of that creative force some call God, others Na- 

 ture, and some of late years locate in Thought and Will Power. 



The two volumes by Wilson F'agg, " A Year With the Birds " 

 and "A Year Among the Trees," belong to the last class named. 

 They are not new books, fresh from the press, but re-issues of vol- 

 umes that have delighted the votaries of Nature since they were 

 first issued some twenty years ago. Their author is one of those 

 who, living close to Nature, finding more than " sermons in stones 

 and books in running brooks." has been warned by her interpre- 

 ter of the t'eathered denizens of the air and of the secrets hidden in 

 the trees of forest, field and garden. 



1 he true interpreter of Nature is ever a poet and Wilson Flagg 

 shows it in every chapter and on every j age of these delightful vol- 

 umes, whereiir the music of the birds and the melod es of the wood 

 are presented in language whose very simplicity creates about them 

 an atmosphere of sublimity. Especially in the " Year with the 

 Birds " is this noticeable^ in the essays on the months in their rela- 

 tion to the feathered songsters. They breathe a spirit of love for 

 the beautiful in animate Nature, and a deep devotion that will place 

 the book for all time in the classic list. 



In the " Year Among the Trees" the same sentiment prevails, 

 but does not come so clearly into evidence. Necessarily many of 

 the pa^es are devoted to particular description of species ; but other 

 pages tieat of the value and beauty of trees and forests, of their climatic influences as purifiers of the 

 atmosphere, of their relations to water, to electricity, to temperature, to the soil, to shade and salubrity, 

 to birds and insects, to ornament, and to poetry and fable. 



Such books as these merit being classed as educational and are far more worthy of being used as 



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text-books for the young than many now in use in schools. 



A Year with the Birds 



Illustrated. Cloth. Price, $1.00 



By the same author and a Com- 

 panion book to the above. 



Fairyland of Flowers 



A Popular Illustrated Botany 

 for the Home and School 



Fully Illustrated. Boards, $1 .00 j Cloth, $1 .25 



I believe teachers will find the " Fairyland of 

 Powers" lery helpful. I know from my experience 

 with teachers, that it is just what most te ichers need. 

 Plant study is the easiest and most piomising division 

 of nature study, and such a book will help teachers who 

 know nothing about plants, 7/"they will study the plants 

 and not merely the books. The illustrations are unus- 

 ually good. Busy teachers who want to correlate na- 

 ture-study with literature, will find the poems and 

 stories interwoven with the plant descriptions, very 

 helpful. They help the teacher to realize that plants 

 are more than mere structures to be picked apart or 

 analyzed and described. 



— Chakles B. Scott, Oswego Normal School. 



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