420 



RECREA TION. 



is clear and simple, and as free from tech- 

 nical terms as any student has a right to 

 ask. 



The 48 colored plates of butterflies show 

 all the important North American species 

 — several hundred in all — and represent the 

 highest mark yet reached by color photog- 

 raphy. Plate 38, showing 3 gorgeous pa- 

 pilios on a spray of apple blossoms is beau- 

 tiful enough to frame and hang on the wall. 

 So is plate 45, and the frontispiece. These 

 are genuine works of art, and evidently 

 were produced by Dr. Holland to show 

 what can be done by this process when it is 

 well supported by art. Excepting 4 plates 

 of this class, and 5 exquisite plates of cater- 

 pillars and chrysalis, reproduced from Dr. 

 S. H. Scudder's great work, the remainder 

 of the plates are devoted to the serious busi- 

 ness of portraying the greatest possible 

 number of species. The fewest figures on 

 one plate are 4, and the greatest number 

 shown is 40. All these figures are actual 

 photographs in colors, from specimens in 

 Dr. Holland's matchless collection. In 

 many cases it is not easy to discern why 

 these beautiful figures are not as good for 

 the purposes of the student as would be the 

 specimens themselves. 



Clearly this is a book to revel in. Its 

 qualities are superb, and its price entirely 

 satisfactory. 



" The Butterfly Book. A Popular Guide 

 to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of 

 North America," by W. J. Holland, Ph. D., 

 Chancellor Western University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, and Director of the Carnegie 

 Museum. Royal octavo, 48 plates in color 

 photography, 183 text illustrations, pp. xx., 

 382, New York, Doubleday & McClure Co., 

 $3- 



In " Bob, Son of Battle," Alfred Ollivant 

 has repeated the effect which Milton 

 wrought in " Paradise Lost." He has 

 drawn the reader's sympathy largely to his 

 Lucifer; only, by a master stroke at the 

 end, bringing interest to center in his al- 

 most too godlike hero. The good man — 

 or dog — does not need sympathy, and hu- 

 man nature is ever prone to lean toward 

 the brave sinner, leaving the virtuous to the 

 solace of his own virtue. 



Men, women, and children in Ollivant's 

 new story, are merely incidental to the life 

 histories of dogs — the world-renowned 

 collies of North England. The tragedy of 

 Adam McAdam serves chiefly to balance 

 the tragedy of that horror of men and dogs 

 — the sheep-murderer; and the triumphant 

 winning of life's greatest prize, the Dale 

 cup — the Shepherds' Trophy — is the victory 

 of a dog. The intense interest of the story 

 rests on the sagacity, the courage and the 

 devotion of both the collie saint and the 

 collie sinner. " A man's mither, a man's 

 wife and a man's dog are his three best 



friends," and the shepherd knows the last 

 is not least. 



This volume will be sent postpaid to any 

 address on approval by Doubleday & Mc- 

 Clure Co., New York. Price, $1.25. 



The heroine of " Armageddon," Stanley 

 Waterloo's latest book, is an air ship. She 

 lives in the 20th century and takes part in 

 a great battle where all the nations of the 

 world are arrayed on one or the other of 2 

 sides. Her history and the solution of 

 many problems now vexing the people of 

 the 19th century are strung on a slender 

 thread of a love story which is evidently for 

 stringing purposes only. 



I don't know why Waterloo does these 

 things when he can do others so much bet- 

 ter. Perhaps he fears to trust his public 

 and thinks he must write down to it. It 

 is safer for a man of ability to lead his read- 

 ers than to follow them. Waterloo writes 

 with exquisite grace and sentiment of the 

 wild dwellers of the fields and forests; his 

 humor is fresh, gay and gentle; his poetic 

 fancy airy and delicate. He should give 

 full measure of these and leave stories to 

 others. He has a right to develop himself 

 along his best lines and the public will be 

 more likely to follow than now. 



" Armageddon " is published by Rand, 

 McNally & Co., Chicago and New York. 



There is but one " Standard " dictionary 

 for Americans, and that is the old reliable 

 Webster's Unabridged. Others may be 

 published on new-fangled lines, but when we 

 want to know something, and to " know we 

 know," as the Persian proverb says, we turn 

 inevitably to our dear old Webster. There 

 we feel at home. We know exactly where to 

 find what we want. We don't have to spend 

 our time studying out some new system, de- 

 vised by several hundred different men, each 

 one apparently bent on obstructing our 

 search as much as possible. Webster's In- 

 ternational Dictionary, in its new dress, as 

 published by G. & C. Merriam Co., Spring- 

 field, Mass., is fully abreast of the times and 

 the indexed edition leaves nothing to be 

 desired. I use it in my office and consult it 

 100 times where I look at any other diction- 

 ary once or not at all. 



Bird-lovers will be interested in the new 

 bi-monthly magazine, " Bird-Lore," pub- 

 lished by the Macmillan Company, and 

 edited by Frank M. Chapman, Assistant 

 Curator in the American Museum of Nat- 

 ural History in New York City, author of 

 a " Handbook of Birds of Eastern North 

 America," and " Bird-Life." 







