LITTLE and well. CJBook Two treats of the crust of the earth, 

 JOURNEYS of earthquakes, meteors, volcanoes (these had a 

 strange fascination for him), islands and upheavals. 

 Books Three and Four relate of geography and give 

 some amusing information about the shape of the 

 continents and the form of the earth. Then comes a 

 book on man, his evolution, physical qualities, with a 

 history of the races. 



Next is a book on Zoology with a resume of all that 

 was written by Aristotle, and with many corrobora- 

 tions of Thompson-Seton and Rudyard Kipling. Facts 

 from the Jungle Book are here recited at length. 

 Book Nine is on marine life sponges, shells and 

 coral insects. 



Book Ten treats of birds, and carries the subject fur- 

 ther than it had ever been taken before, even if it does 

 at times contradict John Burroughs. 

 Book Eleven is on insects, bugs and beetles, and tells 

 among other things, of bats that make fires in caves 

 to keep themselves warm. 



Book Twelve is on trees, their varieties, height, age, 

 growth, qualities and distribution. 

 Book Thirteen treats of fruits, juices, gums, wax, saps 

 and perfumes. 



Book Fourteen is on grapes and the making of wine 

 with description of process and the various kinds of 

 wine their effect on the human system, with a goodly 

 temperance lesson backed up by incidents & examples. 

 {(Book Fifteen treats of apples, plums, figs, peaches, 

 pomegranates and various other luscious fruits, and 

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