When I survey the bright
Celestial sphere,
So rich with jewels hung, that night
Doth like an Ethiop bride appear;
My soul her wings doth spread,
And heavenward flies,
The Almighty's mysteries to read
In the large volumes of the skies.
HABINGTON.
BALL, R.S.
Starland.
Ginn. 1.00
The Royal Institution of Great Britain each year provides at
Christmas-time a course of lectures for children. In 1881 and 1887 Sir
R.S. Ball gave talks on astronomy, and on them the present volume (p. 130)
is founded.
BLANCHAN, NELTJE (Pseudonym of Mrs. N.B. (DeG.) DOUBLEDAY.)
Bird Neighbors.
With an introduction by John Burroughs.
Doubleday. 2.00
Illustrated with full-page color plates. Non-technical. Birds
grouped according to size and color; no specific color key.
Rather full biographies. There are chapters giving the
characteristics of the families, the habitats, and the seasons of
occurrence.
AUDUBON SOCIETY.
Mr. Burroughs states that this book, which describes one hundred and
fifty of our more common birds, is reliable, and is written in a
vivacious strain by a real bird-lover, and should prove helpful and
stimulating to any one who seeks by the aid of its pages to become
better acquainted with our songsters. There are forty-eight plates in
color.
BLANCHAN, NELTJE (Pseudonym of Mrs. N.B. (DeG.) DOUBLEDAY).
Nature's Garden.
Doubleday. 3.00
Mrs. Doubleday has classified over five hundred flowers according to
color, months of blooming, their preferred localities or habitats, and
finally according to their proper families--by the classification
adopted by the International Botanical Congress. Special attention has
been given to the flowers' insect visitors. This large volume (p. 131)
contains thirty-two pages of color plates, and forty-eight in black
and white. Children learn so much from association with a book of this
sort that it has been placed, because of the pictures, under a younger
heading than the text alone would warrant.
Mr. Dugmore's very beautiful photographs in color from the living
flowers, and the no less exquisite portraits from life in black
and white by Mr. Troth, cannot but prove the most attractive, as
they are the most useful, feature of this book.--_Preface._
BURROUGHS, JOHN.
Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers.
Houghton. 1.00
This wise old nature-lover tells us in his delightful way of the fox,
mink, skunk, weasel, porcupine, muskrat, and other wild creatures.
There are fifteen colored illustrations reduced from Audubon's large
pictures.
CRAGIN, B.S.
Our Insect Friends and Foes.
Putnam. 1.75
A boy of eleven once asked me, in the midst of a schoolroom talk
on the uses of participles, where a grasshopper's ears were.... I
did not wonder that he found grasshoppers more interesting than
participles--I do myself--and so, I am sure, do the young people
for whom, most of all, this book has been written.--_Preface._
Butterflies, moths, and insects, are described, and full directions
for collecting, preserving, and studying them, given in this (p. 132)
satisfactory volume, which contains many illustrations. A list of
popular and scientific names is included.
ECKSTORM, F.H.
The Woodpeckers.
Houghton. 1.00
Illustrated with colored plates and figures in the text;
non-technical; color key. This is an introduction to the study of
Woodpeckers. Not arranged as a manual, but giving information as
to structure and habits of the family, with several studies of
individual species.
AUDUBON SOCIETY.
LANG, ANDREW (Editor).
The Red Book of Animal Stories.
Longmans. 2.00
Creatures mythical and real, extinct monsters and animals of to-day,
dwell at peace within this book of many tales. Adventures of famous
men, experiences of animal trainers, and stories of a quieter nature,
are included.
MORLEY, M.W.
Wasps and Their Ways.
Illustrated by the Author.
Dodd. 1.50
To learn so easily and pleasantly about the wasp from an authority may
keep boys from destroying their nests and wantonly annoying them.
And still, they say, in foreign lands,
do men this language hold,
There's nothing like your Attic wasp,
so testy and so bold.
ARISTOPHANES.
PROCTOR, R.A. (p. 133)
Half-Hours with the Stars.
Putnam. 2.00
A plain and easy guide to the knowledge of the constellations,
showing, in twelve maps, the position for the United States of
the principal star groups night after night throughout the year,
with introduction and a separate explanation of each
map.--_Title-page._