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Nature Study and Life. By Clifton F. 

 Hodce, Ph.D. Boston, U. S. A., and 

 London. Ginn & Co., 1902. i2mo. 

 xvi -j- 514 pages, numerous ills. 



Few men are better fitted to produce the 

 ideal book on nature study than the editor 

 of this work. A born nature-lover of wide 

 sympathies and interests, he is at the same 

 time a trained educator and scientist. Add 

 to these an intense desire to lead others to 

 the sources in nature whence he has derived 

 so much pleasure and mental and moral 

 profit and it is evident that circumstances 

 have combined for the production of a book 

 of unusual merit and originality. 



Believing that "interest in life forms pre- 

 cedes that in inanimate forms," Professor 

 Hodge has omitted all reference to geological, 

 astronomical and meteorological phenomena 

 and thus has more space to devote to his 

 true subject — life. 



Professor Hodge would have the contact 

 between nature and the nature student inti- 

 mate and personal. Domesticated animals, 

 domesticated plants, pet animals, pet plants, 

 possess, when our associations with them 

 are properly developed, an inestimable in- 

 fluence in our mental and moral growth. 

 "The pet animal," he says, "is thus for the 

 child, as it was for the race, the key to the 

 door into knowledge and dominion over all 

 animal life." 



Professor Hodge's methods have stood 

 the test of years of trial in the schools of 

 Worcester and are therefore eminently prac- 

 tical. Insect, plant, and animal life, both 

 wild and in domestication, an treated very 

 fully and in so interesting and original a 

 manner that this book appeals not only to 

 teachers but to every nature- lover. — 

 F. M. C. 



Hezekiah's Wives. By Lillie Hamilton 

 French. Boston and New York. Hough- 

 ton, Mifflin & Co. 1902. i6mo. xi+ 

 116 pages. 



How a Canary won the affections of a 

 person who had railed "against the sin of 

 keeping birds in a house," is here recounted 



with a degree of sympathy, close observa- 

 tion, and literary skill which make this lit- 

 tle volume readable from cover to cover. 

 The story of Hezekiah's life and of the va- 

 rious mates which were secured for him 

 may well be used to illustrate the truth of 

 Professor Hodge's claims concerning the 

 educational and ethical value of keeping 

 pets, and we should think that no owner of 

 a Canary could read this volume without 

 feeling an increased regard for her charge. 

 — F. M. C. 



Annotated List of the Birds of Ore- 

 gon. By A. R. Woodcock. Bull. No. 

 68. Oregon Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, Corvallis, Oregon. 1902. 8vo. 

 117 pages. 



While it is admitted that because of in- 

 sufficient data this list doubtless contains 

 errors and omissions, and while from a 

 strictly scientific point of view it might have 

 been deemed desirable for its author to pre- 

 sent only the results of his own studies, we 

 believe that so far as the advancement of a 

 popular interest in bird study in Oregon is 

 concerned he has followed by far the best 

 course in presenting this list of the birds of 

 the entire state. About 325 species are in- 

 cluded, and the annotations under each one 

 give its manner of occurrence at several 

 localities. As the first work of the kind 

 this will prove a most convenient working 

 hand list for use in subsequent investigation, 

 and its author should receive the thanks of 

 his feHow- workers for his labors in their 

 behalf.— F. M. C. 



Summer Birds of Flathead Lake. By P. 

 M. Silloway. Prepared at the Univer- 

 sity of Montana Biological Station, 

 1901. 8vo., pp. S3; pll. 16. 



The notes here presented are based on 

 observations made between June 14 and 

 August 30, 1900, and in June and July, 1901. 

 The various localities visited are described, 

 oological notes on 24 species are given at 

 some length and are followed by a well- 

 annotated list of some 126 species of birds 



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