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at $5.00 for colored, and $2.00 for uncolored, impressions. The objects are 
represented. of life size, in their natural surroundings, calling for the 
large folio form in which the work appears. To judge by the first Part, 
the work is one of very unusual merit, deserving that hearty recognition 
and support which we trust will be accorded by all who can appreciate the 
combination of great artistic excellence and fidelity to nature. The 
authors are be congratulated upon their taste and evident ability; we 
hope in due time to be able to felicitate them upon the complete success of 
their undertaking.” —H. C. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 52. 
“‘It became our sad duty to pen for the last number of the Bulletin a 
notice of the death of the leading author of this work, on the very thres- 
hold 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 fuifilled in the recent appearance of 
Part II. A slip printed with this number briefly refers to Miss Jones’ 
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 9, 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 com- 
pare with the present one has appeared in this country since the splendid 
Audubonian period closed; and it is not toc much to say of the Misses 
Jones and Shuize’s pictoral work, that it rivals in beauty and fidelity of 
illustration the production of Audubon’s pencil and brush, pronounced by 
Cuvier the greatest monument every erected by art to nature. Wo would 
not be thought to have lost our critical faculty in mere admiration, nor 
seem to use words of praise without fully recognizing their weight; but it 
is useless to attewpt the formality of mere critism in a case where our en- 
thusiasm is instinctive. Judged from a standpoint of the highest art cul- 
ture, these colored lithographs have of course only a certain degree of ex- 
cellence, determined rather by the limited possibilities of the means em- 
ployed than by the ability of the artists; measured by the highest stan- 
dard of similar efforts to represent nature in lithography, these illustra- 
tions 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.’ 
‘‘T¢ would be superfluous to recall the attention of working ornitholo- 
gists to a publication whose merits are obvious and «so fully recognized 
already. We would rather seek to interest the larger class of persons who 
are lovers of nature, and have the means and leisure to gratify their tastes. 
So highly ornate a work is necessarily expensive, and its successful com- 
pletion would seen contingent upon the support it receives. Too many 
cheap, flashy books on natural history find a place in parlors, and even in 
libraries, where we should expect to find the evidences of 2 more cultivated 
