608 OHIO BIKDS. 



at J5.00 for colored, and $2.00 for uuoolored, impressions. The objects are 

 represented of life size, in their natural surroundings, calling for the 

 large folio form in which the work appears. To judge by the first Part, 

 the work is one of very unusual merit, deserving that hearty recognition 

 and support which we trust will be accorded by all who can appreciate the 

 combination of great artistic excellence and fidelity to nature. The 

 authors are be congratulated upon their taste and evident ability ; we 

 hope in due time to be able to felicitate them npon the complete success of 

 their undertaking."— E. C. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 52. 



"It became our sad duty to pen for the last number of the Bulletin a 

 notice of the death of the leading author of this work, on the very thres- 

 hold of the great undertaking with which her name properly continues to 

 be associated. The hope then expressed, that, notwithstanding this most 

 melancholy occurrence, the enterprise would not be abandoned by Miss 

 Shulze and other oo-workers, has been fulfilled in the recent appearance of 

 Part II. A slip printed with this number briefly refers to Miss Jones' 

 death, and announces that in future numbers Miss Shulze will be assisted 

 in the illustrations by Mrs. Virginia E. Jones, and that the text will be 

 prepared by Howard E. Jones, A. M., M. D. This promises well 

 for the continuance of a work so seriously interrupted at the outset ; and 

 the number now in hand shows no falling off either in the beauty of the 

 plates or in the appropriateness of the text. No illustrated work to com- 

 pare with the present one has appeared in this country since the splendid 

 Audubonian period closed ; and it is not too much to say of the Misses 

 Jones and Shulze's pictoral work, that it rivals in beauty and fidelity of 

 illustration the production of Audubon's pencil and brush, pronounced by 

 Cuvier the greatest monument every erected by art to nature. We would 

 not be thought to have lost our critical faculty in mere admiration, nor 

 seem to use words of praise wi thout fully recognizing their weight ; but it 

 is useless to attempt the formality of mere critism in a case where our en- 

 thusiasm ia instinctive. Judged from a standpoint of the highest art cul- 

 ture, these colored lithographs have of coarse only a certain degree of ex- 

 cellence, determined rather by the limited possibilities of the means em- 

 ployed than by the ability of the artists ; measured by the highest stan- 

 dard of similar efforts to represent nature in lithography, these illustra- 

 tions compare favorably with the best that have ever appeared. Though 

 a gentle hand has faltered but too soon, and the spirit that guided it has 

 passed on, yet is assuredly erected to her memory the 'monument more 

 lasting than brass.' 



' ' It would be superfluous to recall the attention of working ornitholo- 

 gists to a publication whose merits are obvious and eo fully recognized 

 already. We would rather seek to. interest the larger class of persons who 

 are lovers of nature, and have the means and leisure to gratify their tastes. 

 So highly ornate a work is necessarily expensive, and its successful com- 

 pletion would seen contingent upon the support it receives. Too many 

 cheap, flashy books on natural history find a place in parlors, and even in 

 libraries, where we should expect to find the evidences of a more cultivated 



