Please mention "BIRDS" when you write to advertisers.
#Premiums given for Subscriptions for "Birds."#
#_"The Quad" Camera_#
_Known the world around_
[Illustration: $5.00, or Nine Subscriptions for "Birds"]
Takes pictures 3-1/2 x 3-1/2 inches. Has the simplest action.
Is easy to handle. Quickest to reload. Uses glass plates. Never
gets out of order. Neat and durable.
#_Given for 9 Subscriptions for "Birds,"_#
or sold on receipt of price. Anyone can secure nine subscriptions
for our beautiful magazine.
#_The Odorless Standard Cycle Lamp_#
#_"The Lamp of the Season"_#
[Illustration: Price $3.00. Given for Five Subscriptions for "Birds."]
None better. Highly finished. Hand-ground Lens. Perfect Reflector. Burns
benzine or kerosene. Filled from the outside. "Outshines them all," and
always stays lit.
Who can't get five acquaintances to take "Birds" for one year at $1.50?
We give below a list of publications, especially fine, to be read in
connection with our new magazine, and shall be glad to supply them at
the price indicated, or as premiums for subscriptions for "Birds."
"Birds Through an Opera Glass" 75c. or 2 subscriptions.
"Bird Ways" 60c. " 2 "
"In Nesting Time" $1.25 " 3 "
"A Bird Lover of the West" 1.25 " 3 "
"Upon the Tree Tops" 1.25 " 3 "
"Wake Robin" 1.00 " 3 "
"Birds in the Bush" 1.25 " 3 "
"A-Birding on a Bronco" 1.25 " 3 "
"Land Birds and Game Birds of New England" 3.50 " 8 "
"Birds and Poets" 1.25 " 3 "
"Bird Craft" 3.00 " 7 "
"The Story of the Birds" .65 " 2 "
"Hand Book of Birds of Eastern North America" 3.00 " 7 "
See our notice on another page concerning Bicycles. Our "Bird" Wheel
is one of the best on the market--as neat and attractive as "Birds."
We shall be glad to quote a special price for teachers or clubs.
We can furnish any article or book as premium for subscriptions for
"Birds."
Address,
#_Nature Study Publishing Co. Chicago, Ill._#
#Nature Study Publishing Company.#
The Nature Study Publishing Company is a corporation of educators and
business men organized to furnish correct reproductions of the colors
and forms of nature to families, schools, and scientists. Having
secured the services of artists who have succeeded in photographing
and reproducing objects in their natural colors, by a process whose
principles are well known but in which many of the details are held
secret, we obtained a charter from the Secretary of State in November,
1896, and began at once the preparation of photographic color plates
for a series of pictures of birds.
The first product was the January number of "BIRDS," a monthly
magazine, containing ten plates with descriptions in popular language,
avoiding as far as possible scientific and technical terms. Knowing
the interest children have in our work, we have included in each
number a few pages of easy text pertaining to the illustrations. These
are usually set facing the plates to heighten the pleasure of the
little folks as they read.
Casually noticed, the magazine may appear to be a children's
publication because of the placing of this juvenile text. But such is
not the case. Those scientists who cherish with delight the famous
handiwork of Audubon are no less enthusiastic over these beautiful
pictures which are painted by the delicate and scientifically accurate
fingers of Light itself. These reproductions are true. There is no
imagination in them nor conventionalism. In the presence of their
absolute truth any written description or work of human hands shrinks
into insignificance. The scientific value of these photographs can not
be estimated.
To establish a great magazine with a world-wide circulation is no
light undertaking. We have been steadily and successfully working
towards that end. Delays have been unavoidable. What was effective for
the production of a limited number of copies was inadequate as our
orders increased. The very success of the enterprise has sometimes
impeded our progress. Ten hundred teachers in Chicago paid
subscriptions in ten days. Boards of Education are subscribing in
hundred lots. Improvements in the process have been made in almost
every number, and we are now assured of a brilliant and useful future.
When "BIRDS" has won its proper place in public favor we shall be
prepared to issue a similar serial on other natural objects, and look
for an equally cordial reception for it.
#PREMIUMS.#
To teachers we give duplicates of all the pictures on separate sheets
for use in teaching or for decoration.
To other subscribers we give a color photograph of one of the most
gorgeous birds, the Golden Pheasant.
Subscriptions, $1.50 a year including one premium. Those wishing both
premiums may receive them and a year's subscription for $2.00.
We have just completed an edition of 50,000 back numbers to
accommodate those who wish their subscriptions to date back to
January, 1897, the first number.
We will furnish the first volume, January to June inclusive, well
bound in cloth, postage paid, for $1.25. In Morocco, $2.25.
#AGENTS.#
10,000 agents are wanted to travel or solicit at home.
We have prepared a fine list of desirable premiums for clubs which any
popular adult or child can easily form. Your friends will thank you
for showing them the magazine and offering to send their money. The
work of getting subscribers among acquaintances is easy and
delightful. Agents can do well selling the bound volume. Vol. 1 is the
best possible present for a young person or for anyone specially
interested in nature.
Teachers and others meeting them at institutes do well as our agents.
The magazine sells to teachers better than any other publication
because they can use the extra plates for decoration, language work,
nature study, and individual occupation.
NATURE STUDY PUBLISHING COMPANY,
277 Dearborn Street, CHICAGO.
#OUR PREMIUMS#
THE GOLDEN PHEASANT, a picture of wonderful beauty, almost life-size,
in a natural scene, plate 13 x 18 inches, on card 19 x 25 inches, is
given to Annual Subscribers. The price on this picture in art stores
is $3.50.
Instead of the GOLDEN PHEASANT, teachers who prefer may have duplicate
pictures of each bird each month, on a separate sheet, to use in the
school-room.
#OUR SPECIAL SUMMER OFFER#
To subscribers whose cash for subscriptions reaches us before
September 1, 1897, we will send both the Golden Pheasant and the
duplicate pictures. The Golden Pheasant is admired by every one as a
work of art. The duplicate pictures can be framed with good effect, or
given to some of your friends. Through June, July and August, we are
sending these pictures to all our subscribers. Enclose them in letters
to your friends, and ask them to subscribe through you. Tell them you
are getting subscriptions for "Birds," in order to secure some
premium--a choice book, a camera with complete outfit, a bicycle or
anything else you want, whether in our list or not. During the summer
vacation, any one can get ninety subscriptions, which will insure you
one of the best wheels you or your friends ever have ridden.
Price of "Birds," with Golden Pheasant and one hundred and twenty
pictures (ten each month), $1.50. This offer is made until September
1, 1897.
#Nature Study Publishing Co.,#
#CHICAGO, ILL.#