Hodge’s Nature Study and Life 
Assistant Professor of Physiology and Neurology in Clark University, 
Worcester, Mass. With an Introduction by Dr. G. Stanley Hall. 
Cloth. 514 pages. Illustrated. List price, #1.50 ; mailing price, #1.65. 
ATURE STUDY AND LIFE has twice formed the basis 
for nature-study courses in the Clark University Summer 
School ; it has further stood the more practical test of teachers’ 
institutes in various states ; and, finally, its most important sug- 
gestions have been tried thoroughly in the schoolroom. The work 
contains the results of five years’ special study. In the point of 
view, in the selection of the subject-matter, and in the presentation 
of methods of conducting the work, this book marks a definite 
advance over other publications on the subject of nature study. 
It is a determined reaction against the special and technical, 
and forms an earnest effort to give fundamental and universal 
interests in nature their deserved place in our system of public edu- 
cation. After presenting this point of view clearly in the opening 
chapter, the book takes up concrete lessons on the animals and 
plants that form the natural environment of the home, and group 
themselves most closely about the life and interests of the child. 
Each form is studied alive and at work, as a life story to be read 
at first hand in nature and especially in its relations to man. 
The book is a i2mo, bound attractively in blue and gold, so that 
the volume is eminently appropriate in appearance not only for the 
schoolroom, but also for the home reading table or bookshelf. The 
illustrations are of unusual value and interest. The whole plan and 
make-up of the book have been kept in as close harmony as possible 
with the excellence and high character of the text itself. 
From the School Review, Chicago 
The publishers do not overstate the merits of this book when they say that it 
is one of the most notable nature-study books now published. The emphasis is 
upon jiciture , — not upon study , — and life is never sacrificed to some fancied 
correlation or some narrow scientific application. The illustrations are singu- 
larly felicitous in that they show us not only nature, but human nature in the 
persons of interested girls and boys. This is a book for the home as well as 
for the school. It is scientific in its knowledge, simple in its phraseology, and 
fascinating in its style. 
By CLIFTON F. HODGE 
GINN & COMPANY Publishers 
