HOUSE AND GARDEN 
May, 
1912 
Every Nature=Lover 
Is Captivated 
By Augustus Wight Bamberger’s 
BOOK ON BIRDS 
A nature book you can scarcely lay 
down before finishing. Not a dry 
text-book, but a most pleasingly-told 
account of actual trips afield to study 
birds. You feel yourself at the 
author’s side, crossing meadows, 
climbing fences, tramping the damp, 
fragrant earth of the woods—seeing 
and hearing wonder after wonder of 
bird life through the keen, knowing 
eye and ear of the author—amazed, 
charmed and instructed. 
32 Photographs From Life 
Selected from the result of years of toil 
by William L. Baily. 
A Novel Field=Key 
Which enables anyone readily to classify 
properly the birds of the Eastern States. 
i2mo. Cloth. 209 pages. Price, $1.00. 
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rWhat Others Say: 
The author carries 
us to delightful places 
where we meet the 
birds, whose habits we 
thus learn in the mo§t 
entertaining manner. 
The illustrations are 
as fascinating as they 
are unique. — Boston 
Transcript. 
The pictures are in 
many ways unusual. 
The text is familiar, 
pleasant and brings 
the reader into in¬ 
timacy with bird fam¬ 
ily life . — The Outlook. 
The author knows his 
subject thoroughly. 
The volume itself is 
an excellent manual. 
— Buffalo News. 
An interesting hand¬ 
book for every lover 
of nature. — Philadel¬ 
phia Inquirer. 
A capital book for 
the lover of the feath¬ 
ered ones of wood 
and field. Generously 
and charmingly illus¬ 
trated. Written in an 
easy, chatty style.— 
The Bookseller, News¬ 
dealer and Stationer. 
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