342 NATURE STUDY REVIEW [8 :9— Dec, 1912 



Greyfriars' Bobby, Eleanor Atkinson. 292 pages. Harper 

 & Bros." $1.35. 



We have grown familiar with some animal classics like 

 "Black Beauty" and "Beautiful Joe," wherein our animal friends 

 have been deemed worthy of the place of heroes in literature. This 

 new addition to books in which an animaFs name gives a title to 

 the story is eminently worthy a place in our esteem and a recogni- 

 tion in current good literature. One hardly knows on completing 

 the book whether your most vivid impressions are of Bobby or 

 of Greyfriars' church yard and the quaint characters that are 

 connected with it. Bobby is a very winning, though a v^ry natural 

 dog. He does not dominate the story, but takes his natural place. 

 He quite wins your heart as is intended for "his soft eyes, veiled 

 by the silvery fringe that fell from his high forehead, were 

 deep-brown pools of affection." 



The scene of the story is in Edinburg at the beginning of 

 the 19th century, "when it was a new gospel, at that time, that a 

 dog or horse or a bird might have its mission in this world of 

 making people kinder and happier." When the story is ended 

 you are quite sure that Bobby and his kind have not preached 

 the new gospel in vain. It is an eminently readable book. 



Confidences or Talks With a Young Girl Concerning Herself. 

 94 pages. 50 cents. 



Truths: Talks With the Boy. 95 pages. 50 cents. 



Herself: Talks With Women. 221 pages. $1.00. 



False Modesty. 110 pages. All by E. B. Lowry, Forbes & 

 Co., Chicago. 



This series of books is written by a man with a conscious 

 mission. Air. Lowry is evidently ' trying to face squarely the 

 social evil and to remedy that as far as possible. 



False Modesty discusses the vice that thrives through ignor- 

 ance, as the author conceives it, and the chapters on "The Father's 

 Duty to His Son," "Teaching the Science of Motherhood," and 

 "The Coming Educational Reform" point out the lines along 

 whiich the author thinks the social vice must be ameliorated. 



Herself discusses in the early chapters the normal functions 

 of the female reproductive organs and points out the connec- 

 tion of the "Black Plague," as the author styles venereal diseases, 

 with the diseases that affect women, and the disruption of the 

 home. There are also chapters on the instruction of children 

 with some excellent advice on the prevention of the wrecking 

 of the boy's or girl's life. The book is a clean, forceful and 



