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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 
Cadby that she must not sweep away the 
webs but must let them grow for his edi- 
fication. Of course Mr. and Mrs. Cadby 
kept chickens in the back yard and again 
the camera was brought out. In the process 
of time the photographs accumulated. Then 
they were sorted over on a big table, and 
Mr. and Mrs. Cadby picked out a few of the 
best and Mrs. Cadby wrote charming tales 
for children about their subjects. So here 
you have puppies and kittens, spiders and 
chickens mingled in delightful profusion. 
But perhaps the most interesting thing 
Brcce. By Albert Payson Terhune. New York 
City : E. P. Dutton & Company. 
Anyone who has read “Lad : A Dog’’ needs 
no introduction to the dog lovers of Sunny'- 
bank. It would be unreasonable, however, to 
expect that “Bruce” — the story of another 
Sunnybank collie and this time at the war 
front — should keep the finer qualities, the spon- 
taneity, grace and naturalness of the earlier 
book. It is always true in the case of the dog 
story that whatever is gained in intensity' of 
interest by the introduction of exceptional 
events is lost to the more significant appeal 
"ONE HAD STILL A BIT OF SHELL STICKING TO HIS BACK.” 
about the book is for the thoughtful ob- 
server to read between the lines and illus- 
trations and so discover how the whole 
thing happened. 
The Unity of the Organism or The Organ- 
ismal Conception of Life. By' William 
Emerson Ritter, Director of the Scripps 
Institution for Biological Research of 
the University of California. Boston, 
Massachusetts: Richard G. Badger. 
In this book the author dissents vigor- 
ously from recent tenencies to regard plants 
and animals as mere aggregations of funda- 
mentally' independent elements, and pre- 
sents a strong argument for the whole 
organism as the basic living unity. 
He reviews the history' and doctrine of 
“elementalism” from Empedocles to its 
great vogue in the hands of modern experi- 
menters and speculative biologists, and 
opposes to it his doctrine of the unity of 
the living being developed during a life- 
time work as biological scholar, teacher and 
director of major research enterprises. 
The book marks a distinctive step in the 
advance of biology' from the laboratory- 
speculative point of view to a broader nat- 
ural history' outlook. 
which the dog in his aspect of comrade makes 
to the true dog lover. 
We welcome “Bruce” as illustrating the 
dog's power of adaptation under the brief, ex- 
ceptional and hideously abnormal conditions 
of the firing line. F. E. B. 
Summer Vignette. 
BY' EARLE CORNWALLIS, DWIGHT, NEBRASKA. 
From mossy bank I see a mountain-cloud 
Which floats on high, like some great feather : 
Close by I hear the shivery cottonwoods 
That sigh and sigh, one unto the other : 
The dreary tinkle of a cow-bell's note 
Comes wafted from afar on vagrant breeze — 
I picture placid bovine Yvagging head 
In shady dell, somewhere beyond the trees ; 
Above me, ships of Cloudland swim the sea 
Of dizzy distance, rolling 'midst the blue. 
And silent, airy phantasies they sail 
Across the landscape. — like my thoughts of you ! 
With Nature holding out both hands 
In all the things we see, 
’Tis passing strange that human nature 
Should indifferent be. 
— Emma Peirce. 
