Vol- XV. 



MAY, J904 



The beautiful is as useful as the Mzeivl.^ Victor Hu^o. 



No, 5 



CONTENTS 



Page 



LINES WRITTEN IN EARLY SPRING (William Wordsworth) [Poem] . 193 



THE SUMMER YELLOW BIRD OR YELLOW WARBLER [Illustration] . 194 



THE SPRING POETS (Jac Lowell) [Poem] 197 



DOMINION (Alice M. Dowd) [Poem] 



THE ANHINGA OR SNAKEBIRD [Illustration] 201 



MAY-DAY CUSTOMS (Ruth Paxson Drury) 



A SPRING LOVE STORY. (Carolyn S. Bailey) [Poem] 203 



THE AMERICAN RING PLOVER [Illustration] 204 



A PAIR OP CLAMS (Ruth Marshall) 207 



THE GREAT HORNED OWL [Illustration] 213 



A CLEVER MASON (Wilmatte Porter Cockerell) 214 



QUEEN OF THE BEAUTIFUL (Willis Edwin Hurd) [Poem] .... 215 



THE CANVAS-BACK DUCK (Gerard Alan Ahbott) [Illustration] ... 216 



THE JIG TREE (Belle Hitchcock) [Poem] .... ... 219 



TWENTY COMMON WARBLERS— PART II (Norman O. Foerster) . . , 220 



THE GAMBEL'S PARTRIDGE [Illustration] . . .... , . 225 



TWO CURIOUS OBJECTS (Louise Jamison) . . . . . . . . 228 



THE PLANTING OP AN APPLE TREE (William Cullen Bryant) [Poem] . 227 



SOMETHING ABOUT THE APPLE TREE [Illua);ration] . . • ^ Q^ 228 



FRITZ— THE STORY OP A DOG (Henrietta Lee Coulling) . • <y •'^ ^ • 231 



THE GRAY RABBIT OR COTTONTAIL [Illustration] . \ *^ ^. ,, . 235 

 SONG OF SOWING (Edith Hope Kinney) . . ^ . ,Vsi«^«j^\ '^^ 



INDEX ^^ ^atiog^^ ^gn^f 237 



EDITED BY WILLIAM KERR HIQLEY 

 ILLUSTRATED BY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHY 



