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His victims are so cleverly bitten through the head that they remain 

 alive but are unable to escape. Thus are the young cats provided with 

 fresh meat, which they have the joy of catching themselves. Let us 

 laugh at the odd appearance of Mrs. Porcupine. She decides on grapes 

 today for the menu of her family. She goes forth to a vine where 

 plenty abounds, shakes the vine, rolls carefully in the grapes as only 

 porcupines know how, and proceeds homeward, a grape on the end of 

 each quill ! 



In the last chapter the author gives remarkable Biblical proof of the 

 immortality of the animal soul. Lena R. Carlton 



The Worth While This is a convenient little volume to tuck in a 

 IN THE Southwest* suitcase. Even if you do not visit all the Indian 

 villages in the leisurely fashion advised by the 

 author, you may at least become better acquainted with the picturesque 

 pueblos, the arts, legends and ceremonial dances of the Hopis and 

 Zunis. There is fascination in the mellow tints of mesa and cliff, won- 

 der for the sixteenth-century Spanish explorers, and awe for the pre- 

 historic dwellings of Montezuma's descendants. Particularly interesting 

 are the chapters on the village of Acoma and El Morro, the autograph 

 rock of the Conquistadores. ^L. M. G. 



The Melody This is a collection of garden and nature poems selected 

 OF EARTHf by Mrs. Waldo Richards from the poets of the present 

 day or those who have written within the last ten years. 

 Most of the poems are by American writers, but we also find the names 

 of Verhaeren, Rabindranath Tagore, Yates, Noyes, Masefield and other 

 English and Irish writers in the list of authors represented. 



The headings of the different groups of poems indicate the variety of 

 garden pictures — "Within Garden Walls," "The Pageantry of Gardens," 

 "The Gardens of Yesterday," "The Lost Gardens of the Heart." There 

 are poems of every season — of lilac time and Indian summer, of the 

 roses of June and the snows of winter. There are exquisite songs of 

 the coming of spring birds, of the nightingale at sunset, of the whirring 

 hummingbird and dainty butterfliy. Every phase of garden life is pic- 

 tured, from the romances of the stately old gardens overseas to the 

 homely virtues of the vegetable gardens of the present day, with a spe- 

 cial "Grace for Gardens," for the "beans and peas and the corn full on 

 the ear," which should have been chanted by every war-gardener. 



In the group called "Pasture and Hillside" we are taken farther 

 afield, and in "Underneath the Bough" we find poems not only to the 



* Finding the Worth While in the Southwest. By Charles Francis Saunders. 

 Illustrated. Robert McBride & Co., New York. 1918. Price, $1.25 net. 



t The Melody of Earth. Edited by Mrs. Waldo Richards. Houghton Mifflin 

 Company, Boston and New York. 1918. Price, $1.50 net. 



