4io NATURE-STUDY REVIEW [13:9— Dec, 1917 



Bird Houses Boys Can Build. Albert F. Siepert. Assistant Professor of 

 Manual Arts, Bradley Institute, Peoria, 111. 

 Professor Siepert is accustomed to tell pupils how to make things as this 

 pamphlet will show. He gives working drawing of — placing boxes for wood- 

 pecker, bluebird, wren, chickadee, robin, flycatcher, martin, finch, also for 

 suet feeder, food shelter, feeding shelf, bird baths. The directions are clearly 

 written and the illustrations are many and attractive. 



Our Backdoor Neighbors. Frank C. Pellett. 209 pp. with 84 illustrations. 

 The Abingdon Press. Price $ 1 . 50. 

 Lovers of nature everywhere should enjoy this new book by Air. Pellett. 

 He speaks to us in a most entertaining manner from an acquaintance of many 

 years with our feathered, furred, and insect friends. No back-yard gossip ever 

 fell on more eager ears than that that came to the author from "Foxy," or 

 "Bunny Cottontail," or "The Jolly Old Crow." True to the tradition of a 

 gossip the author has passed on to us the messages from these lower creatures 

 in a most interesting manner in his stories of their home life, adventure and 

 behavior. Like a sympathetic and true neighbor the author neglects not so 

 speak a good word for those creatures who justly or unjustly have attained a 

 reputation of bad repute such as "The Red-tails," "The Chicken Thief," and 

 "The Polecat." Nature-study will receive an important stimulus from this 

 book of Mr. Pellett's, and young and old will enjoy it alike 



H. E. Ewing. 



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