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The Light of Dav, Religious Discussions 

 and Criticisms from the Naturalist's Point of 

 View, by John Burroughs. Houghton, Mif- 

 ,flin & Co. 



This neat little book is uniform with the 

 Riverside edition of Burroughs' works and is a 

 serious consideration of very important ques- 

 tions and will be read with interest even by 

 those who differ from its conclusions. 



C. F. H. 



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Bird Studies with a Camera, by Frank M. 



Chapman. Pp. 214, with numerous half-tone 



illustrations. D. Appleton iS: Co., New York. 



Cloth. Si. 75. 



This, the latest of Mr. Frank M. Chapman's 

 charmingly written books on nature, will be 

 welcome to bird students throughout the United 

 States. The author is a keen observer and 

 writes with rare grace and sincerity and is to 

 be congratulated on his phenomenal success in 

 photographing birds in nature — they are re- 

 markable illustrations of wild life and show 

 what can be done with a camera in the hands 

 of a naturalist. The essays are charming and 

 well written, especially the chapter describing 

 the chickadees with their family of nine little 

 ones. Other chapters, "The Least Bittern," 

 "Two Herons," "Where Swallows Roost," "Two 

 Days with the Terns," "Perce and Bonaven- 

 ture," "The Magdalens," "Bird Rock," "Life on 

 Pelican Island," are equally good. "Bird Stud- 

 ies with a Camera" is one of the most interest- 

 ing and valuable books of its kind that has been 

 written and will prove useful in making people 

 love and protect our birds. C. F. H. 



Bird Homes — The Nests, Eggs and Breeding 

 Habits of the Land Birds Breeding in the 

 Eastern Lmited States, with hints on the rear- 

 ing and photographing of young birds, by A. 

 Radclyffe Dugmore. Illustrated with photo- 

 graphs from nature by the author. Double- 

 day & McClure Co. Pages xvi-188. Fifty 

 half-tone illustrations and sixteen color- 

 types. $2.00 net. 



Mr. Dugmore's "Bird Notes" is a beautifully 

 illustrated volume, one in which the camera has 

 been used with great success. The author de- 

 scribes the nests, eggs and breeding habits of 

 the land birds that nest in the Eastern United 

 States. The work is illustrated with many 

 pretty half-tones and sixteen colorotypes and 

 enriched throughout by a considerable number 

 of pictures of young birds. Mr. Dugmore gives 

 a sensible introduction to his work and clearly 

 tells us that the object of his book is to stimu- 

 late the love of birds. Following the introduc- 

 tion are chapters on "Birds' Nests and Eggs," 

 "Egg Collecting and Its Object," "Photograph- 

 ing Nests and Young Birds," "Hints on the 

 Rearing and Keeping Birds," and in chapter V, 

 "Approximate Dates when Birds Begin to 

 Nest," are given. This praiseworthy volume 

 will certainly become a popular work on the 

 nests and eggs of our birds. The author en- 

 courages the study of birds in the field rather 

 than the enlargement of the collection in the 

 cabinet, and pleads for their protection. 



C. F. H. 



