Twenty-five Bird Songs for Children 



Words and Music by W , B. OLDS 



With an Introduction by Hemry Oldys * 



Illustrations in Color. Price, $1.25 net 



MR. Ol-D'S beautiful Book oj Bird Songs is the lirst serious art presentation of its 

 subject. Yet it is one whose finest art lies in its faithful transcript of the natural 

 melodies of our native song birds, for human singers, with texts that could 

 have been conceived only on the basis of an intimate knowledge of bird-life and habits. 



The simple and lovely notes of some twenty-hve of America's most euphonious 

 forest melodists — among them the Wood Pewee, Meadowlark, Black-throated Green 

 Warbler, Whip-poor-Will, Song Sparrow, Robin, Wood Thrush and Bobolink — are 

 simply and naturally presented, just as the birds themselves might utter them. The 

 individual bird's little melodic theme appears on a separate stave at the head of each song. 

 The Harmonizations are developed out of the bird song itself, and supply a back- 

 ground rather than a commentary. The concluding number of the collection, A Woodland 

 Medley weaves into a connected sequence the individual songs of a number of birds not 

 represented in the single melodies, and does so with much natural grace and charm. 



Mr. Old's book (the wonderful color illustrations are after originals supplied by the 

 Audubon Society) will appeal not only to every singer — there is a wealth of absolutely 

 new and fascinating song material contained within its covers — but to every lover of 

 birds. And Mr. Olds, a musician of standing, who has made American bird song the 

 object of long and exhaustive special study, and attracted attention by his lecture- 

 recitals on "Bird Song" in Chicago and elsewhere, was not only preeminently htted 

 to do justice to his subject, but has really done so. 



Descriptive circular with thematic illustrations will be sent on request 



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"NATURE NEIGHBORS." Best set of books about birds. Beautiful 

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FREE — Illustrated book telling how to win birds to your gardens, and a descriptive folder of 

 "N.\TURE NEIGHBORS," illustrated with birds in natural colors. Also a picture worth framing. 



JOSEPH H. DODSON, 712 S. Harrison Avenue, Kankakee, Illinois 



Mr. Dodson is a director of the American Audubon Association 



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