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The Child Life Readers
BY
ETTA AUSTIN BLAISDELL
Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Brockton, Mass.
I. CHILD LIFE--
A First Reader Price, 25 cts.
II. CHILD LIFE IN TALE AND FABLE--
A Second Reader Price, 35 cts.
III. CHILD LIFE IN MANY LANDS--
A Third Reader In preparation
IV. CHILD LIFE IN LITERATURE--
A Fourth Reader In preparation
The central idea of these books is to _hold the child's interest_
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understand and enjoy_. The lessons, therefore, relate exclusively to
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second year. They have been graded with the utmost care.
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confined to material of _recognized literary value_.
The aim of the publishers has been to produce _an artistic set of
Readers_ that shall be mechanically as nearly perfect as possible.
As a unique feature in binding, they would call attention to the
_covers, which are water-proof_, and can be cleansed, when soiled by
constant handling, without injury to the book.
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The Plant World
Edited by F. H. KNOWLTON, Ph.D.
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From the New Book
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Wabeno, the Magician
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_CITIZEN BIRD_ [Illustration]
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_SCENES FROM BIRD-LIFE IN PLAIN ENGLISH FOR BEGINNERS..._
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Will be issued as a bi-monthly from the Louisiana Industrial
Institute Press, and edited by writers on biology. It will be made
a bulletin of original research, and be kept in close touch with
all science societies of the Gulf section, most especially with the
Louisiana State Biological Station, soon to be opened. As the name
implies, the Bulletin will be devoted to the biological interests of
the Gulf section. It aims to take the place of no other publication,
but, on the other hand, hopes to encourage the increased circulation
of biological literature, and the unification of the interests of
working biologists generally.
The editors invite long or short articles; catalogues of animals or
plants; sketches of past work of societies or individuals; reviews of
books or other scientific publications. Articles too short for extended
or general treatment, or papers too long or technical for semi-popular
treatises, are especially invited. In short, the aim is to make a
bulletin rather than a popular science journal.
The following are some of the articles now ready for publication:
=Catalogue of Reptiles of Arkansas=; =History of Louisiana Botany;
The Louisiana Gulf Biological Station=; =The Louisiana Society of
Naturalists=; =A Bill before Congress for the Creation of a Government
Biological Station and Fish Hatchery on the Louisiana Coast=; =Review of
the Proceedings of the National Fishery Congress=; =Some Special Features
of Avery's Island=; =The Behavior of Birds around their Nests or Young=.
The size of the Bulletin will be 8-1/2 x 10 inches. Each number will
contain not less than thirty pages, six numbers constituting a volume.
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to warrant an issue. We invite comments and criticisms, as well as
contributions and subscriptions, from biologists.
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"_The greatest and best book ever written about birds._"--ELLIOTT COUES
_A Dictionary of Birds_
BY
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Being VOLUME IX of the
Cambridge Natural History
By A. H. EVANS, M.A.
Clare College, Cambridge
EDITED BY
S. F. HARMER, Sc.D., F.R.S.
Fellow of King's College, Cambridge
Superintendent of the
University Museum of Zoölogy
AND
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Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge
University Lecturer on
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_The Osprey_
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