A Choice Collection of Memory Verses 



NATURE STUDY IN THE POETS 



Arranzed for School Use by MARY ROENAH THOMAS, Teacher in the Hancock School, Boston 



The teacher who sees to it that her classes of boys or girls commit to memory, first and last, 

 a good many short, pithy, pertinent sentences, stanzas, lines or passages from the world's best 

 literature will be doing them a service for which they will be grateful all their lives. This service 

 will be of inestimable value not only as a pleasure and consolation in lonely or discouraged 

 moments, but also as a positive and efficient means of intellectual growth. Many a humble boy 

 or girl's life has been saved from ruin or lifted above the commonplace by just such a service as 

 that which is so happily rendered by Miss Thomas's book. 



The volume is the result of an unusually successful effort on the author's part to do, in the class- 

 room, for her own pupils, the work which we have suggested in the above sentences. With rare 

 discernment and exquisite literary taste she has searched the writings of the poets for those happy 

 and inspired passages in which they have caught the very essence of some thought of God as 

 expressed in Nature, and have put it into musical English. 



She has drawn not only from the well-known poets like Wordsworth, Longfellow, Bryant, but 

 also from some original sources. A number of bird poems, for instance, of unusual merit, and 

 never before published, are contributed by a friend of the author's. The selections on the Seasons 

 are arranged so as to portray the season's advance ; that is, the stanzas coming first under the 

 head of Spring give the sights and sounds of early spring, those which follow carrying the thought 

 forward with the maturing season. 



"Sounds from the Sea" and "Notes from the Field and Wood" are particularly rich and sug- 

 gestive sections. There are brief quotati' ms suitable for special days, such as Arbor Day, Memorial 

 Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. Resourceful teachers will find many ways of using this 

 delightful volume, which is alike valuable in the classroom and on the home table. 



" It would be well if a coov of this artistically arranged and printed volume could be put in 

 the hands of every pupil in the public schools." From the School Journal [N. Y.) 



" The volume is especially notable for its typographical beauty." 



The Moyer Letters, New Haven, Conn. 

 " If you wish the best collection of studies for every time and season, get this handsome book." 



The Pathfinder, Carbondale, III. 



PAPER COVERS, 142 PAGES. PRICE, 50 CENTS, POSTPAID 



THE PALMER CO., Publishers, 50 Bromfidd Street. Boston 



Boys and Girls 



NATURE -STUDY MAGAZINE 



Representative of the Most Modern Nature- Study 

 Work. For Individual and Class Use 



Editor, Martha Van Rensselaer 



Price. Fifty Cents per Year 



TESriMONI^L 



"I regard BOYS AND Girls a good expression of the 



nature-study idea."— L. H. Bailey, Cornell University. 



Samples sent on request 



ADDRESS 



BOYS AND GIRLS MAGAZINE 

 ITHACA, N. Y. 



A New Field Manual of the 



Birds of 

 Eastern North America 



By C. J. MAYNARD 



Send for circulars of this and other Bird 

 Books. 



Address the author and publisher, 



WEST NEWTON, MASS. 



J. Horace McFarland Ci 



BIRD-IOPFS 



BIPD CHAM 





^ 



^ 







^. 













THIS chart measures 12 x l8 inches, and figures 

 sixty-two representative species of our eighteen 

 familiesof Perching Birds. From Crow to Kinglet, 

 all these figures are photographed to the same scale; 

 and one may therefore instructively compare, at a glance, 

 characteristic members of all our families of Perching 

 Birds. 



This chart has been so highly commended by teachers 

 that we have decided to place it on sale at twenty-five 

 cents per copy, postpaid. Special terms will be made to 

 schools and bird clubs ordering ten or more copies. 



THE MACMILLAN CO. 



Crescent and Mulberry Sts., HARRISBURG. PA 



Printers, Harrisburg, Pa. 



