VoL XV. 



MARCH, 1904 ^OS^H 

 The beautiful is as useful as the ^iQeixil— Victor Hu^o. 



No. 3 



A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER (John Keats) 



THE CANADIAN WARBLER [Illustration] 



LITTLE PEOPLE OF THE POOLS PART I (Helen Mansfield) 

 IN SPRING (Emily F. Bass) - - - 



THE AMERICAN VULTURES (Illustration] .... 



THE SPRING HERALD (Creswell J. Hunt) [Poem] 



THE CALIFORNIA TOWHEE [Illustration] 



TABBIE DECEIVED BY A CATBIRD (J. Mavne Baltimore) 



A CLEVER LITTLE LADY (Henrietta Lee Coullinpr) 



BIRDS AND THEIR YOUNG— A QUESTION (Anson C. Allen) 



THE YELLOW RAIL [Illustration] 



AROUND A WOODLAND POND (Edward Bamford Heaton) 



THE ART OF WINTER (Anne Wakely Jacksou) .... 



THE HABITS OF THE CEDAR WAX WING (Gerard Alan Abbott) 



[Illustration] - - ...... 



now ONE SPIDER KEPT HOUSE (Laura May Burgess) 



THE HISTORY OF THREE LITTLE ROBINS (Emily R. Bass) 



A CURIOUS NEST (Anna Yarnall) - - , - - - 



SOME AMERICAN-GRASSHOPPERS (Collins Thurber) [Illustration] 



THE TEACHER (Alice Crittenden Derby) [Poem] 



THE KUMQUAT [Illustration] 



HINTS OF SPRING (Prank Wolcott Hutt) [Poem] 



BIRDS' WAYS (Belle Paxson Drury) 



^THE BRACKET FUNGI (Will Sayer Moffatt) [Illustratio 



UNIQUE LANTERNS (Louise Jamison) - - >, ^_^- 



A FUZZY BUZZY SONG (Belle Hitchcock) [Poeni] // *b^ - 



Edited by WILLIAM KERR 



(LLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTO 



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