HOME STUDIES IN NATURE. 



By MARY TREAT, Author of "Chapters on Ants," &c. Il- 

 lustrated, pp. 244. 12mo, Ornamental Cloth, $1 50. 



Mrs. Treat roams through the fields in search of rare knowledge about 

 birds, wasps, spiders, and those wonderful plants that entrap insects and 

 thrive on their juices. Her originality in these researches is undoubted, 

 and she adds a great deal to our stock of facts for use in the interpreta- 

 tion of nature. She has a pleasant style, and a winning knack of making 

 disagreeable things seem otherwise. The pictures are many and good. 

 JV. Y, Journal of Commerce. 



A worthy tribute from a lover of nature to the animated world about 

 her. It treats of birds, insects, plants that consume animals, and flowering 

 plants. It has nearly seventy handsome illustrations, and the story is told 

 in fascinating and clearly-expressed language. It is an admirable work 

 with which to educate a family. Boston Commonwealth. 



To those who have given attention to the beauties of nature as devel- 

 oped in the winged world and the insect and floral branches, this little 

 volume will be peculiarly grateful. Albany Press. 



Books on this subject are generally regarded by every one not profes- 

 sional scientists as dreadful bores. An exception must be made, however, 

 in favor of Mrs. Mary Treat's " Home Studies in Nature." The only 

 echoes of science between the two covers are the Latin names of birds, 

 insects, and plants ; all else are most curious and readable accounts of 

 the doings of some creatures so tiny that they frequently are near us, and 

 watching us, when we imagine ourselves alone. * * * This would be a capi- 

 tal book to give a bright-eyed boy or girl who complains that about home 

 " there is nothing to look at." Adults, however will also enjoy the volume, 

 and may make their eyesight keener by reading it. N. Y. Herald. 



The public should feel glad that occasionally a man or a woman finds 

 highest pleasure in studying the ways and habits of nature, and publishing 

 the result of such study to the world. This is what Mrs. Treat has done. 

 * * * Her book is divided into four parts observations on birds, habits of 

 insects, plants that consume animals, and flowering plants. It is, moreover, 

 helped by nearly seventy illustrations, which in a work of this character 

 are of material assistance ; for the great majority of readers are unfamil- 

 iar with the appearance of the birds, flowers, and insects, the habits of 

 which are described. The author shows herself to be a keen, conscien- 

 tious, and affectionate observer. N. Y. Telegram. 



Mrs. Treat can always command a delightful audience ; for next to the 

 pleasure of searching fields, woods, and streams for the beautiful or curi- 

 ous, it is charming to hear from so close an observer so much that is in- 

 teresting and new, especially when all is told with vivacity and genuine 

 enthusiasm. * * * The volume is finely illustrated, and its contents cannot 

 tail to entertain the reader, young or old, who has learned, or is learning, 

 about the busy world out-of-doors. Worcester Daily Spy. 



PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. 



n The above work sent by mail, postage prepaid, to any part of the United States 

 or Canada, on receipt of the price. 



