RECREATION. 



VII 



*« A Great Natural History." — New York Sun. 



By W. T. HORNADAY 



Director of the New York Zoological Park ; 

 Author of ** Two Years in the Jungle ** 



With 343 illustrations, picturing 375 animals, besides charts and maps 



The Outlook S'ays: 



"Mr. Hornaday is a 

 practical man and he has 

 written a practical book. 

 The descriptions 

 are clear and avoid over- 

 technicality, while they are 

 accompanied by readable 

 accounts of animal traits 

 and incidents of wild life. 

 It is refreshing to have a 

 book that is thoroughly de- 

 pendable as regards fact 

 and scientific spirit, yet 

 written with liveliness and 

 freshness of manner." 



THE 



AMERICAN 

 NATURAL 

 HISTORY 



v/.t.hornaday 



Royal 8vo, $3.50 net. 



(Carriage extra.) 



Ernest Ingersoll 

 says : 

 "The author has suc- 

 ceeded remarkably well 

 from the popular as well as 

 from the professional point 

 of view. The result is a 

 book which a farm- boy may 

 study without a teacher and 

 get a proper idea of the 

 animals about him ; and a 

 book which a teacher may 

 truthfully follow in the 

 class-room and not mislead 

 the pupils he is endeavor- 

 ing to instruct." 



"Not only a book packed with information which can be depended on, but one of 

 absorbing interest. . . . The best thing in its field that has been published in this 

 country." — Nashville American. 



" Here are the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, the fishes of the deep, described 

 in clear, simple language, with no ambiguity, and pictured in many cases by photographs 

 from life, in others by drawings of well-known animal painters. We suspect that Mr. 

 Hornaday's book will be the popular natural history for a long time to come. " — New 

 York Sun. 



" It is safe to predict for this lavishly illustrated work wide and enduring popularity ; 

 there is so human a note in it, it is so markedly well designed to attract and hold the 

 attention of older as well as younger readers." — New York Evening Mail. 



"The manner of treatment throughout is not merely interesting, it is exceedingly 

 Witty and uniformly readable. ... It would seem that every effort had been made 

 by the author to secure accuracy and modernity of treatment, and his book is altogether 

 one to be prized on every account." — The Dial 



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