RECREATION. 



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Ai\ 

 Ideal 

 Natural 

 History 



THE newest and most complete works of its kind in existence. A History of all living creatures 

 • of the earth— animal and man — edited by leading .authorities, and designed for the entertainment 

 and instruction of the average reader. There are no dry or tedious scientific terms in this work. 

 It is readable and attractive throughout, abounding in true stories of the most absorbing interest. 

 Travelers and anthropologists describe in a most interesting and readable manner the human race, from 

 its lowest to its highest form. 



The People's Natural History differs from all other works of this kind in that it is illustrated en- 

 tirely from actual photographs. The cost of securing these pictures was enormous and required years of 

 patient labor. In many cases special expeditions, armed with cameras and dry plates, had to be sent to 

 foreign lands. 



A Portrait Gallery of 

 Animal Life 



Experts and authorities on 

 every branch of natural history 

 are among the contributors. 

 Included among them are 

 Charles J. Cornish, Prof. Rich- 

 ard Lydekker — the well-known 

 naturalist — Sir Harry John- 

 ston, Ernest Ingersoll, F. C. 

 Selous — the celebrated hunter 

 of big game — and many others. 

 Every living creature is de- 

 scribed and depicted — animals, 

 reptiles, insects, fishes — and a 

 special section is devoted to the 

 description of the races of men, 

 savage and civilized. There 

 are 2,000 reproductions of pho- 

 tographs of animals and sav- 

 ages in the Library, besides 

 numerous colored plates. 



For Young Folks' Reading 



This work is unique in the 

 domain of nature-study, be- 

 cause it is written and illus- 

 trated along original lines. It 

 is one of the few books of value 

 that can be enjoyed alike by 

 young and old, and that im- 

 part instruction as well as en- 

 tertainment. Your boy or girl 

 can learn more natural history 

 from reading these volumes, in 

 which they will take a delight, 

 than they would from months 

 of hard study over some dull 

 and abstruse work on the same 

 subjects. It is a branch of 

 knowledge that the child must 

 acquire somehow if he ever ex- 

 pects to possess a well-rounded 

 education, and this work will 

 furnish the easiest and most 

 pleasant means of acquiring 

 such knowledge. 



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THE People's Natural History is complete in five large de luxe volumes, Ii^x8| inches in size. 

 Three volumes are devoted to the living animals of the world and two volumes to the living 

 races of mankind. The work is printed on the finest satin-finish paper. There are 2,000 

 black and white illustrations in the set, besides numerous colored plates. The bindings are in red 

 cloth and half leather, stamped in gold. M Rtc. 



The President of a large Western college says of this library, " It is the nearest M^ IO-04 



approach to an ideal Natural History ; it is nature bound in the covers of a book." ^r 



The 



University 



Society, 



New York 



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