Science is, like virtue, its own exceeding great reward.
KINGSLEY.
BAKER, R.S.
Boy's Second Book of Inventions.
Doubleday. 1.60
This second volume is like unto the first in giving accounts of recent
marvellous discoveries and inventions, such as radium, flying
machines, and the seismograph, used in the measurement of earthquakes.
It is fully illustrated.
BLANCHAN, NELTJE (Pseudonym of Mrs. N.B. (DEG.) Doubleday).
Birds That Hunt and Are Hunted.
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.
One hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds, and water-fowls,
are described. The color plates are forty-eight in number.
DICKERSON, M.C.
The Frog Book.
Doubleday. 4.00
"The original manuscript for this book concerned Toads and (p. 186)
Frogs of Northeastern North America only.... Brief accounts
of the species of other parts of North America were added later."
There are sixteen pages of color plates and nearly three hundred
half-tones from photographs from life by the author. The wonderful
transformation of the tadpole is fully described.
GOOD, ARTHUR.
Magical Experiments.
McKay. 1.25
Some of the wonders here described are intended merely for amusement,
others are of a scientific character and designed to act as an
introduction to the study of Physics. No apparatus is needed beyond
the simple articles, such as knives, forks, and plates, which every
household possesses. The book is instructive and entertaining alike to
experimenter and observer.
HEILPRIN, ANGELO.
The Animal Life of Our Sea-shore.
Lippincott. 1.25
An authoritative manual, prepared with special reference to the New
Jersey coast and the Southern shore of Long Island. It is fully
illustrated.
HOWARD, L.O.
The Insect Book.
Doubleday. 3.00
Dr. Howard, Chief of the Division of Entomology, United States
Department of Agriculture, and the foremost authority in this (p. 187)
country, gives us full life-histories of the bees, wasps, ants,
grasshoppers, flies, and other North American insects--exclusive of
the butterflies, moths, and beetles. A separate section is devoted to
the subject of collecting and preserving the different specimens.
There are sixteen pages of color plates, thirty-two pages of
half-tones, and about three hundred black and white text
illustrations.
MOFFETT, CLEVELAND.
Careers of Danger and Daring.
Century. 1.50
Vivid accounts of the courage and achievements of
steeple-climbers, deep-sea divers, balloonists, ocean and river
pilots, bridge-builders, firemen, acrobats, wild-beast trainers,
locomotive engineers, and the men who handle dynamite.
CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH.
MORLEY, M.W.
Grasshopper Land.
McClurg. 1.25
Not only the grasshoppers but other family members of the Orthoptera
are here described, including mantes, walking-sticks, katydids, and
crickets. There is a long and interesting account of locusts and their
migrations. The text illustrations are many and satisfactory.
The poetry of earth is never dead:
When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,
And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.
That is the grasshopper's--he takes the lead (p. 188)
In summer luxury--he has never done
With his delights, for when tired out with fun,
He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
KEATS.
PARSONS, F.T. (S.) (formerly MRS. W.S. DANA).
How to Know the Wild Flowers.
Scribner. 2.00
Every flower-lover who has spent weary hours puzzling over a
botanical key in the efforts to name unknown plants will welcome
this satisfactory book, which stands ready to lead him to the
desired knowledge by a royal road. The book is well fitted to the
need of many who have no botanical knowledge and yet are
interested in wild flowers.--_The Nation._
The primary characteristic of this guide to the names, haunts, and
habits, of our common wild flowers is that, in moderate compass, it
groups and describes them under their different colors. This
arrangement was suggested by a passage in one of John Burroughs's
Talks about Flowers. There are indices to the Latin and English names
and to technical terms. The forty-eight full-page colored and one
hundred and ten black and white illustrations are of value.
ST. JOHN, T.M.
Real Electric Toy-Making for Boys.
St. John. 1.00
Sufficient directions for making and using many simple electric toys.
SHALER, N.S. (p. 189)
A First Book in Geology.
Heath. .60
It is difficult to see how this subject could be made more interesting
to beginners. The fully illustrated volume is of a handy size to be
carried on geological tramps.