OUT-DOOR BOOKS 



Selected from the Publications of 



Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 



4 Park St., Boston; 11 East 17th St., New York. 



A Week on the Concord and Merrimack 

 Rivers. By HENRY D. THOREAU. 12mo, gilt top, $1.50. 



Birds and Poets, with Other Papers. By JOHN 



BURROUGHS. 16mo, $1.50. 



CONTENTS : Birds and Poets ; April ; Touches of Nature ; 

 A Bird Medley ; Spring Poems ; Our Rural Divinity ; Emer- 

 son ; The Flight of the Eagle (Walt Whitman) ; Before Gen- 

 ius ; Before Beauty. 



Bird- Ways. By OLIVE THORNE MILLER. 16mo, 



$1.25. 



CONTENTS : The Bird of the Morning, the American 

 Robin; The Bird of Solitude, and A Gentle Spirit, the 

 Wood Thrush ; A Winter Bird-Study, the European Song 

 Thrush ; In the Cat-Bird's Nook ; Tricks and Manners of a 

 Cat-Bird ; The Bird of Society, the Redwing Blackbird ; 

 Transient Visitors in the Bird-Room ; A Ruffian in Feath- 

 ers, the House Sparrow ; A Tragedy in the Maple Tree ; 

 Trouble in the Honeysuckles ; The Bird of the Street ; 

 " These are your Brothers/' 



Cape Cod. By HENRY D. THOREAU. 12mo, gilt 



top, $1 .50. 



CONTENTS : The Shipwreck ; Stage-Coach Views ; The 

 Plains of Nauset ; The Beach ; The Wellfleet Oysterman ; 

 The Beach again ; Across the Cape ; The Highland Light ; 

 The Sea and the Desert ; Provincetown. 



Country By-Ways. By SARAH ORNE JEWETT. 



18mo, $1.25. 



In free and flowing lines Miss Jewett has drawn exquisite 

 pictures of river and road and woodland, that fascinate by 

 their happiness of descriptive detail, and by the kinship to hu- 

 manity which the author finds in the flowers and trees and 

 fields. -Boston Transcript. 



