Tol XIV. 



SEPTEMBER, J903 



The beautiful is as useful as the useful.— Victor Hugo. 



No, 2. 



NATURE 



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CONTENTS. 



DAY (Robert Browning) [Poem] .... 



SEPTEMBER (Walter Thornbury) [Poem] 

 THE LARK SPARROW [Illustration] . 

 THE MOCKINGBIRD IN ILLINOIS (Isaac E. Hess) 

 A WORD (Lulu Whedon Mitchell) [Sonnet] . 

 TWO GOOD NEIGHBORS (Elizabeth Roberts Burton) 

 THE MILKWEED (Illvria Turner) [Poem] . 

 THE WHITE-TAILED PTARMIGAN [Illustration] . 

 SEEING THINGS RIGHT (Mathilde C. Hellwig) 

 BODNCING BET (Jaen Flower) [Poem] 

 THE BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO [Illustration] 

 THE BIRDS IN MIDSUMMER (James Stephen Compton) 

 SONG (Ernest Powell) [Poem] . .r. 

 THE EUROPEAN CRESTED TITMOUSE [Illustration] 

 THE FLORIDA OTTER (Mary Stratner) 



NESTING OF THE LEAST BITTERN (Gerard A. Abbott) [Illustration] 

 MYSTERIES IN BIRD- WORLD (J t Mayne Baltimore) 

 THE GEM OF THE INLAND SEAS (lilyria Turner) 

 THE MOUNTAIN FORGET-ME-NOT (Ada M. Griggs) [Poem] 

 MINOR GEMS (Oliver Cummings Farrington) [Illustration] 

 COLORLESS FLOWERS (W. C. Knowles) 

 THE MUSHROOMS (Charles S Raddin) [Illustration] 

 TWO LITTLE MONKEYS (Phoebe A. Naylor) 

 DREAM-GATHERING (Cale Young Rice) [Poem] . 

 THE BEES' GARDEN (Ella F. Mosby) . 

 THE FLY MUSHROOM OR FLY AMANITA (Elizabeth Willis Woodworth) 

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A CURIOUS BIRD (Louise Jamison) .... 



THE SEPTEMBER RAIN-STORM (Frederic Fortune) [Poe 



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