Book Reviews 



Wild Bird Guests. How to Entertain Them. Ernest Harold 

 Baynes. pp. xviii + 326. Preface by Theodore Roosevelt. 

 E. P. Dutton Company. $2.00. 

 This is one of the most attractive bird books that has come to 

 the Review Table in a long time. Possibly it is because the 

 Reviewer has arrived at the stage where he is particularly interested 

 in attracting the birds. To the bird lover who is established and 

 wants to make his home grounds a bird resort, the book will be full 

 of valuable hints. It is exceedingly interesting reading, also, for 

 anyone who has the welfare of the birds at heart. The chapters 

 on the destruction of bird life by inclement weather, disease, 

 natural enemies and man, are replete with striking facts and are 

 illustrated with excellent photographs of many of the birds' worst 

 enemies. Among these pictures are those of the skunk, the weasel, 

 the raccoon, the opossum, snapping turtle, and the bull frog. 

 Chapter five is on the economic reasons for protecting the birds and 

 the author classifies the wild birds into those that are always 

 beneficial, those chiefly beneficial, those in which the beneficial and 

 the harmful qualities about balance, and those that are distinctly 

 harmful. The latter list includes only the sharp-shinned hawk 

 and Cooper's hawk, for the United States. Under the caption 

 "The Entertainment of Wild Birds in Winter," there are given 

 valuable directions regarding bird foods and bird shelters, together 

 with detailed diagrams showing the construction of the latter. 

 One of the most valuable features of the entire book is found in 

 Chapter eight. It is a list of the native and introduced trees, shrubs, 

 and vines that bear fruit attractive to birds. The chapter on bird 

 baths and houses is explicit, and the illustrations show a number of 

 different types. The final chapter, on bird clubs, gives an account 

 of the work of some of the conspicuously successful clubs, tells 

 what clubs may do, and there is given in the appendix a typical 

 constitution which will aid very materially in the establishment of 

 such local organizations. 



The American Boys' Book of Bugs, Butterflies and Beetles. 



Dan Beard, pp. ix + 309. J. B. Lippincott Company. 



S2.00. 



We have all come to recognize that when Dan Beard sets himself 



a task in the interest of the boys, it is sure to be well done. This 



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