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treatise, and holds his subject fairly abreast of the information we have 
.acquired respecting it. Being, furthermore, a writer of recognized ability 
and experience, in full possession of the data required in this case, 
he gives us every reasonable assurance of accomplishing a work which 
should constitute an interesting and important contribution to science. 
Trusting that he may secure, in the matter of the plates, the full sup- 
port of the publisher, who has in other respects brought out the work 
in a style of mechanical execution exceptionally elegant, we bid him good 
speed. — E. C. 
The Misses Jones and Shulze’s Nests and Eggs of Ohio 
Birds.* — It became our sad duty to pen for the last number of the Bulle- 
tin a notice of the death of the leading author of this work, on the very 
threshold of the great undertaking with which her name properly continues 
to be associated. The hope then expressed, that, notwithstanding this 
most melancholy occurrence, the enterprise would not be abandoned by 
Miss Shulze and other co-workers, has been fulfilled in the recent ap- 
pearance of Part II. A slip printed with this number briefly refers to 
Miss Jones’s death, and announces that in future numbers Miss Shulze 
will be assisted in the illustrations by Mrs. Virginia E. Jones, and that the 
text will be prepared by Howard E. Jones, A. M., M. D. This promises 
well for the- continuance of a work so seriously interrupted at the outset ; 
and the number now in hand shows no falling off either in the beauty of 
the plates or in the appropriateness of the text. No illustrated work to 
compare with the present one has appeared in this country since the 
splendid Audubonian period closed ; and it is not too much to say of the 
Misses Jones and Shulze’s pictorial work, that it rivals in beauty and fidel- 
ity of illustration the productions of Audubon’s pencil and brush, pro- 
nounced by Cuvier the greatest monument ever erected by art to nature. 
We would not be thought to have lost our critical faculty in mere admi- 
ration, nor seem to use words of praise without fully recognizing their 
weight ; but it is useless to attempt the formality of mere criticism in a 
case where our enthusiasm is instinctive. Judged from a standpoint of 
the highest art culture, these colored lithographs have of course only a cer- 
tain degree of excellence, determined rather by the limited possibilities of 
the means employed than by the ability of the artists ; measured by the 
highest standard of similar efforts to represent nature in lithography, these 
illustrations compare favorably with the best that have ever appeared. 
Though a gentle hand has faltered but too soon, and the spirit that guided 
it has passed on, yet is assuredly erected to her memory the “ monument 
more lasting than brass.” 
* Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of the Birds of Ohio. With Text. 
By Miss Genevieve E. Jones and Eliza J. Shulze. Circleville, Ohio : Pub- 
lished by the Authors. (Part II, Oct., 1879.) 
