SOIENGE— ADVERTISEMENTS. 



New Books on Nature Study 



HANDBOOKS FOR TEACHERS. 



A Handbook of Nature Study for Teachers and Pupils 

 in Elementary Schools. 



" A valuable primer to natural 

 history and science . . . thoroughly 

 practical. " — Scientific American. 



" Intended to interest a child in 

 ohserving the growing and moving 

 world about him . Trees and plants, 

 insects and birds are treated of in a 

 very simple and interesting manner. 

 The style is calculated to hold the 

 attention and the illustrations are 

 numerous." — The Churchman. 



"Altogether the book is an ad- 

 mirable one." — Forest and Stream. 



D. LAJfGE, 



Instructor in Nature Study in the 



Public Schools of St. Paul, 



Minnesota. 



With many Illustrations, an Ap- 

 pendix and Index. 



12mo, Cloth. Price, $1.09 net. 



The purpose of the book is to fur- 

 nish teachers in common schools 

 with material and suggestions with 

 which to make their pupils ac- 

 quainted with the plant and animal 

 life around them. The material is 

 arranged according to seasons and 

 life communities; and the author 

 has taken special pains to show some 

 of the relations existing between 

 the vegetable and animal king- 

 doms, animate and inanimate na- 

 ture, and between man and nature. 



Nature Study in Elementary Schools. 



We have seen no book along this 

 line that is more stimulating and 

 inspiring. It shows the teacher j ust 

 how to go to work to get the pupils 

 interested and to make them ob- 

 servant. This is a modern siibject 

 and it is handled in this volume in 

 a modern and masterly manner. 

 We commend the work to all 

 teachers and parents. 



Mrs. Lucy I. W. Wilson, Ph.D., 



Philadelphia Normal School 

 for Girls. 



Part I. rianual for Teachers. 



Cloth, 16mo, 90 cents net. 



Part II. Reader : Hyths, 

 Stories and Poems. Small 



12mo, Cloth. Price, 35 cents net. 



The original matter in this reader 

 has been written and the selections 

 chosen with the desire of putting 

 into the hands of little children 

 literature which shall have, for their 

 minds, the same interest and value 

 that really good books and maga- 

 zines have for grown-up people. It 

 is the author's aim to plant the 

 seeds of that which may later de- 

 velop into a taste for art, for litera- 

 ture and for nature. 



A COMPANION VOI.IJME TO " CITIZEIV BIRO" 



Four-Footed Americans and Their Kin. 



" ' Four-footed Americans ' is not 

 a text-book to be taken by children 

 like a sugar-coated pill, with a 

 doubtful if not a wry face, but a 

 volume breezily and brightly writ- 

 ten, yet crammed with matter 

 every child should know." — N. Y. 



MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT, 



Author of " Citizen Bird," etc. 

 Edited by Frank M. Chapman. 

 Seventy-two Original Illustra- 

 tions by Ernest Seton Thomp- 

 son, among many others. 

 Cloth, 12mo, $1.50 net. 



f " An interesting, odd story un- 

 derlies the relation in these thirty 

 chapters of the life-histories of 

 seventy-five or more of American 

 mammals, not only the four-tooted, 

 but the wing-handed-batkin, and 

 the footless whale of American 

 waters. It is the only adequate 

 book of its kind."^ — Book Bevimos. 



THE MACMILLAN" COMPJLJTY 



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