If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade
when we are old.
CHESTERFIELD.
BAKER, R.S.
The Boy's Book of Inventions.
Doubleday. 2.00
These accounts of the wonders of modern science tell of liquid air,
wireless telegraphy, X-Ray photography, and other marvels. There are
many illustrations.
BAMFORD, M.E. (p. 157)
Up and Down the Brooks.
Houghton. .75
A careful observer and nature-lover gives us a familiar account of the
wonderful lives of the little brook creatures. The insects mentioned
in these pages are those of Alameda County, California, but members of
the same families will be found in or beside almost any brook, East or
West.
CHAPMAN, F.M.
Bird-Life.
Illustrated by E.E. Thompson-Seton.
Appleton. 2.00
Illustrated with seventy-five full-page plates in color and
figures in the text. Non-technical, with a color key to about one
hundred and fifty of the more common species. This book is in two
parts. The first chapters define the bird, its place in Nature,
and its relation to man, and outline the leading facts in its
life-history. The second part gives a Field Key based on color,
and biographies of some of the common birds.
AUDUBON SOCIETY.
CLODD, EDWARD.
The Childhood of the World.
Kegan Paul. 1.25
This book ... is an attempt, in the absence of any kindred
elementary work, to narrate, in as simple language as the subject
will permit, the story of man's progress from the unknown time of
his early appearance upon the earth to the period from which
writers of history ordinarily begin. ... The First Part of this
book describes the progress of man in material things, while (p. 158)
the Second Part seeks to explain his mode of advance from
lower to higher stages of religious belief.--_Preface._
And step by step, since time began,
I see the steady gain of man.
WHITTIER.
The subject of this volume seems a little appalling for children, but
it is treated in so remarkable a manner and with such simplicity that
the book should be in the hands of all young people. It is not
surprising to learn that it has been translated into many languages.
ECKSTORM, F. (H.).
The Bird Book.
Heath. .60
Illustrated with full-page woodcuts and figures in the text.
Written in popular style; chapters on Water-Birds in their Homes;
Structure and Comparison; Problems of Bird-Life; Some Common
Land-Birds. Much original matter about little-known water-birds.
AUDUBON SOCIETY.
GEIKIE, ARCHIBALD.
Physical Geography.
American Book. .35
Children of inquiring minds will find in this tiny volume expert
answers to their questions about the earth and its wonders.
HOLLAND, W.J.
The Butterfly Book.
Doubleday. 3.00
Dr. Holland, Director of the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, has given us
an authoritative account of the butterfly-life of North America (p. 159)
north of Mexico, and at the same time has kept this book entirely
within the comprehension of the unscientific nature-lover. Directions
are given for the capture, preparation, and preservation, of specimens.
There are forty-eight pages of color plates, reproducing more than a
thousand North American butterflies, and several hundred black and white
text illustrations.
INGERSOLL, ERNEST.
The Book of the Ocean.
Century. 1.50
Waves, tides, and currents, early exploration, war-ships and naval
battles, merchantmen, yachts and yachting, marine industries, and the
animal life of the ocean, are all discussed in this good-sized, fully
illustrated volume.
MEADOWCROFT, W.H.
The ABC of Electricity.
Excelsior Publishing. 50
A simple treatise on electricity and its uses in connection with the
telephone, telegraph, electric light, et cetera.
MORLEY, M.W.
A Song of Life.
Illustrated by the Author and Robert Forsyth.
McClurg. 1.25
How few thoughtful parents have not been perplexed by the question of
when and how best to tell their children the great truths of the
beginning and development of life in the world of nature. Miss (p. 160)
Morley is well qualified to treat this most difficult subject, which
she does delicately and reverently, from a scientific standpoint. As
there is so great a difference of opinion as to the advisability of
giving books of this nature to adolescent boys and girls, it is strongly
recommended that this one be carefully read beforehand by the parent.
ST. JOHN, T.M.
How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus.
St. John. 1.00
Directions for making simple electrical appliances, such as batteries
and electric bells.
STONE, WITMER, and W.E. CRAM.
American Animals.
Doubleday. 3.00
A readable book, beautifully illustrated, ... and in many of its
life-histories much fuller, fresher, and more interestingly
written than any other work on animals that I know.
DALLAS LORE SHARP.
In preparing the present volume the aim has been to produce a
work sufficiently free from technicalities to appeal to the
general reader and at the same time to include such scientific
information relative to our North American mammals as would be
desired by one beginning their study.--_Preface._
The illustrations which accompany these descriptions of the mammals of
North America north of Mexico comprise six plates in color from
paintings by A.B. Dugmore, and ninety-four half-tones from (p. 161)
remarkable photographs from life by Messrs. Dugmore, Carlin, Beebe,
and other expert nature-photographers. Some of the photographs were
taken in the New York and Washington Zoölogical Parks, and some in the
open.