In the Open 
Intimate Studies and Appreciations 
of Nature 
A nature book of such unusual literary charm that it 
deserves to be ranked well above most of the more homely 
out-of-door studies of recent years.— Mew York Times. 
Mr. Kirkham evidently knows his ornithology, and with 
no uncertain pen writes of birds with the sympathy of a poet 
and a bird-lover.—F rank Chapman in Bird Lore, 
No other American naturalist, unless it be Thoreau, has 
ever quite surpassed this writer in sensitive register of nature’s 
myriad moods.—Chicago Illustrated Review. 
He loves nature as much as Thoreau, and he studies her 
ways as closely as W. H. Gibson did. The essaysare delight- 
ful.— Buffalo Express. 
Through intimate companionship he reaches a power of 
delicate characterization unique even among trained nature- 
lovers. His readers will often pay him the subtle compli- 
ment of exclaiming, ‘‘ That is just what I have thought.”— 
The Dial. 
To read these essays is to wish yourself in the open.— 
New York Herald. 
This is not only a very beautiful book, but one of fasci- 
nating interest as well.— Rochester Herald, 
He will care for Jn The Open to whose ears the cry of 
the wild goose is no alien sound.—Baltimore News. 
Few more attractive books of nature observations have 
appeared.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. 
Interesting not only from its contents but as a fine 
example of the printer’s art.— Springfield Republican, 
In The Open is a continuous delight. To the reader who 
has lived in the country it isa revelation. It makes him see 
things in a new way,—San Francisco Examiner, 
He is a very shrewd observer of animals and birds and he 
has the literary faculty in high degree, so that he is able to 
make the reader feel the charm of the pictures of mountain 
and forest and sea that he presents. — San Francisco Chronicle, 
He knows bird ways and bee ways, the democratic code 
of the ant, poetry of weeds, the philosophy of stones and the 
song of laughing waters. All seasons are known to him and 
all latitudes, as well as a style Emersonian in its elusive 
ie In The Open is a rare book.— Pittsburg Gazette- 
ines. 
