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Homing with the Birds 



By GENE STRATTON-PORTER 



A literary authority recently wrote us — 



T[ "Tonight I came across a copy of 'Hom- 

 ing with the Birds.' I picked it up, and 

 have been spending a fascinated hour with 

 it when I ought to have been doing some 

 urgent work. 



^[ "It is a book to be proud of, and I can 

 hardly tell you how deep and complex a 

 pleasure it has given me — something of 

 the breathless satisfaction one feels on 

 those rare occasions when one knows one's 

 self following some path toward the magic 

 of truth. Mrs. Porter's beautiful stories 

 ot her bird friends, some of tnem pathetic, 

 some of them humorous, are a kind of 

 education in the art of wondering at the 

 fulness of life. They refresh the sense of 

 amazement. What could be more touch- 

 ing than the story of the robin that stayed 



by her nest during ninety hours of rain! 

 Or more entertaining than the anecdote 

 of the wastrel waxing so gloriously drunk 

 on pokeberry wine! 



1[ "I cannot see that Mrs. Porter's great 

 work with birds is any inferior to the 

 studies of the famous Fabre with insects. 

 If the essence of religion is an attitude of 

 reverence toward mysteries too great for 

 us to understand, then this book has in it 

 the gist of many creeds. 



If "Please pardon this outburst! It is a 

 spontaneous utterance of admiration for 

 Mrs. Porter's unique gift of fellowship 

 with the birds, which seems to have been 

 born in her warm and courageous heart." 



If Illustrated with many rare photographs 

 of birds in their natural haunts. Net, $2, 

 at all book-sellers'. Published by 



DOUBLED AY, PAGE CSi. COMPANY, Garden City, N. Y. 



