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AN EXPERT OPINION. 
Turning away from the flying and creeping things of the 
earth and from the snap-shot methods necessary to portray their 
life, a feeling of coolness and repose comes to us from between the 
leaves of "Our Ferns in their Haunts.'' Last week, driving on 
the Parkman road, near the head of Lake George, we watered the 
horse at a barrel, fed from a spring on the hillside by the hol- 
lowed-out half of a tree-trunk. We climbed the slope above it 
and gathered quantities of ferns, differing, while the horse jogged 
on again, as to whether this or the florist's delicate pet was the 
real "maidenhair." There was no untechnical book in our collec- 
tion, nor did we know of any in which we could "look it up." 
The next mail brought this book. It opened to a pen-and-ink 
sketch of what looked like our drinking place. Further on in the 
book we found — was it the very clump from which our ferns had 
been taken? It might have been, for the surroundings seemed 
identical. Our questions were answered, as were several others, 
and we were given a digestible morsel of science with a salad of 
maidenhair folk-lore, all served up in the best of descriptive En- 
glish. The make up of the book is admirable. The colored 
plates, wash drawings and pen-and-ink sketches are artistic and at 
the same time accurate in detail, and the bits of quoted verse and 
folk-lore are as attractive as the illustrations. — Literary Collector. 
OUR FERNS IN THEIR HAUNTS 
A GUIDE TO ALL OUR SPECIES 
BY WILLflKD N. GbUTE 
8 vo., Cloth, 332 pages and 215 illustrations. 
Price, $2.15 NET. Sent po<itpaid for $2.35 
Address, WILLARD N. CLUTE & CO.. Binghamton, N. Y. 
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