BOOK NOTICES. 



STORIES OF BIRD LIFE. 



Professor T. G. Pearson, of Greensboro, 

 North Carolina, has written one of the most 

 interesting and fascinating bird books that 

 has ever come to my desk. It almost makes 

 one weary to think of the hundreds of 

 writers who are working the birds and the 

 wild animals for revenue only. Few of 

 the writers have any real love for or per- 

 sonal interest in these creatures ; the others 

 simply strive to turn them to financial ac- 

 count. Mr. Pearson's book is different. It 

 is plain to see that he follows and studies 

 the birds from pure love of them, and be- 

 cause he wants other people to know and 

 love them. His book is not one of the dry, 

 scientific kind. It is made up of a series 

 of breezy, chatty talks about birds. It reads 

 as his talks would sound if you were sitting 

 next to him. He comes from the woods 

 or fields and tells you all about what he has 

 seen there, and he has learned so much of 

 them that he apparently is at a loss to know 

 what to say first or where to stop. Yet 

 there is not a word in this whole book that 

 you would cut out. On the contrary you 

 wish, after he has finished talking of any 

 one of the birds, that he would go on and 

 on, for hours at a time. 



His book is intended mainly for children, 

 but a man or a woman 70 years old will feel 

 reluctant to lay it down until the last page 

 has been read. 



"Stories of Bird Life" should be in the 

 hands of every man, woman and child in 

 the land, and I earnestly hope hundreds of 

 thousands of copies of it may be sold in the 

 next 2 years. 



The book is printed by the B. F. John- 

 son Publishing Co., Richmond, Va., and 

 sells at 60 cents. In ordering please mention 

 Recreation. 



BUSINESS AND ROMANCE. 



A story of the experiences of 2 young 

 business women in New York, by Harriet 

 C. Cullaton, bears the semi-explanatory ti- 

 tle, "Firm of Nan & Sue, Stenographers." 

 On a thread of romance Mrs. Cullaton has 

 strung actual incidents in the daily life of 

 2 stenographers who have a miscellaneous 

 assortment of patrons. No one has a bet- 

 ter opportunity to learn the real nature 

 and all the affairs of a man than the sten- 

 ographer who writes his letters and other 

 business papers. Secrets that a man will 

 hide carefully from the wife of his bosom 

 and from his male associates he will reveal 

 to a stenographer, sometimes from neces- 

 sity, in dictating a letter, sometimes inad- 

 vertently, but often merely in a spontan- 

 eous and inexplicable burst of confidence. 

 Mrs. Cullaton has taken a shrewd, humor- 



ous, philosophical view of the vagaries of 

 the genus dictator, and every stenographer 

 will recognize him. It will also interest 

 the dictator to see the mirror held up to 

 himself by a not unkindly hand. Steno- 

 graphers can get some mighty good, prac- 

 tical suggestions from Nan and Sue, and 

 no one will begrudge the 2 girls the happy 

 outcome of their business experiences. 



"Firm of Nan & Sue, Stenographers,'' is 

 brought out by the Broadway Publishing 

 Company, New York, and the price is $1. 



DR. SENN'S NEW BOOK. 



Dr. Nicholas Senn, of Chicago, has writ- 

 ten a book entitled "Our National Recrea- 

 tion Parks," which has been published by 

 W. B. Conkey Co., of Hammond, 111. 



Dr. Senn is well known as an enthusias- 

 tic lover of nature, as an extensive traveler 

 and as one of the greatest surgeons in the 

 world. President McKinley appointed him 

 Chief of the Operating Staff of Surgeons 

 of the U. S. Army during the Spanish War. 

 Dr. Senn also holds the rank of Surgeon 

 General of the Illinois National Guard and 

 at this writing is with the Field Hospital 

 Service of the Japanese Army. 



Dr. Senn is a trained observer and has 

 made a close study of the Yellowstone Na- 

 tional Park, the Yosemite National Park, 

 and the Sequoia Groves of the Sierras. He 

 wields a graceful and facile pen and por- 

 trays what he sees so vividly and forcibly 

 that the reader may see it almost without 

 the aid of other than the pen pictures. Not- 

 withstanding this the book is profusely il- 

 lustrated with half tone reproductions of 

 photographs, and must prove a most de- 

 lightful piece of reading, either for vacation 

 days or for the long winter evenings. 



The book sells at $1. 



A book of short stories' by Jack London 

 bears the title of one of them, "The Faith 

 of Men." For fire and originality the au- 

 thor of "The Call of the Wild" is unmatched 

 among fiction writers of the hour, and his 

 many admirers will enjoy these masterly 

 tales of the ever new Northwest. 



"The Faith of Men" is published by The 

 Macmillan Company, New York and Lon- 

 don, and the price is $1.50. 



"Brave Hearts" is the title of a series of 

 thrilling stories of the race track, written 

 by W. A. Fraser and published by Charles 

 Scribner's Sons. 



Mr. Fraser is well known as a vigorous 

 and forceful writer and all horsemen and 

 lovers of the sport of racing will find ab- 

 sorbing interest in the pages of this book. 

 Price, $1.50 net. 



