_Electrotyped and printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.
Cambridge, Mass, U.S.A._
BOOKS FOR THE STUDY OF NATURE
SUITABLE FOR USE IN SCHOOLS
THE HIAWATHA PRIMER. By Miss Florence Holbrook, Principal of the
Forestville School, Chicago. Based on Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha, and
designed for use as the child's first book in reading. (Riverside
Literature Series, Extra No. P. Cloth only, 40 cents.)
The Hiawatha Primer contains 139 pages of reading text, 8 full-page
colored illustrations, 4 full-page black and white illustrations, and 65
part-page illustrations in black and white, or silhouette; and equipped
with reading and writing lessons in the latest vertical script, and many
special features.
THE BOOK OF NATURE MYTHS. By Miss Florence Holbrook. A reading book for
the primary grades, designed to follow "The Hiawatha Primer." (Riverside
Literature Series, Extra No. V. Cloth only, 45 cents.)
The Book of Nature Myths contains 209 pages of reading text, with 8
full-page and 21 part-page illustrations in black and white, by E. Boyd
Smith.
THE SONG OF HIAWATHA. By Henry W. Longfellow. (Riverside Literature
Series, Nos. 13 and 14.) _Revised Edition._ With Introductions, Notes,
and a Vocabulary; also with 12 full-page Illustrations and many drawings
of Indian Wearing Apparel and Utensils, by Frederic Remington. In two
parts; each, paper, 15 cents.
[Also in one volume; linen, 40 cents.]
A FIRST BOOK OF BIRDS. By Olive Thorne Miller. Illustrated. School
Edition, Square 12mo, 60 cents, _net_.
This is a bird book intended for children. The 20 full-page
illustrations, of which 8 are in colors, are a strong feature of the
book.
A SECOND BOOK OF BIRDS. By Olive Thorne Miller. Illustrated. Square
12mo, $1.00, _net_. Postage 10 cents extra.
This book is devoted to Bird Families; after defining what is meant by
this term, the author describes most of the well known families. There
are 24 full-page illustrations, of which 8 are in colors, by Louis
Agassiz Fuertes.
EVERYDAY BIRDS. By Bradford Torrey. Illustrated. Square 12mo, $1.00.
A score of brief biographies of our familiar birds, written for young
readers. There are 12 full-page illustrations, after Audubon, in colors.
SQUIRRELS AND OTHER FUR-BEARERS. By John Burroughs. Notes on the
smaller, more common mammals,--the squirrels, the woodchuck, the rabbit
and hare, the skunk, the fox, the weasel, etc.,--compiled by the author
from his writings, with some interesting new matter. With 15 full-page
colored illustrations from Audubon, and a colored frontispiece from
life. _School Edition._ Square 12mo, 60 cents, _net_.
BIRDS OF VILLAGE AND FIELD. By Florence A. Merriam. A Bird Book for
Beginners. With a General Field Color Key to 154 Birds, and over 300
Illustrations. 12mo, $2.00.
BIRDS AND BEES. By John Burroughs. (Riverside Literature Series, No.
28.) With an Introduction by Mary E. Burt. Paper, 15 cents, _net_.
SHARP EYES AND OTHER PAPERS. By John Burroughs. (Riverside Literature
Series, No. 36.) Paper, 15 cents, _net_. (This book is also bound
together with Birds and Bees in one volume, cloth, 40 cents, _net_.)
A BUNCH OF HERBS, AND OTHER PAPERS. By John Burroughs. (Riverside
Literature Series, No. 92.) With a Biographical Sketch. Paper, 15 cents,
_net_.
A-HUNTING OF THE DEER, AND OTHER PAPERS. By Charles Dudley Warner.
(Riverside Literature Series, No. 37.) With a Portrait and Biographical
Sketch. Paper, 15 cents, _net_; cloth, 25 cents, _net_.
SUCCESSION OF FOREST TREES, WILD APPLES, AND SOUNDS. By Henry David
Thoreau. (Riverside Literature Series, No. 27.) With a Biographical
Sketch by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Paper, 15 cents, _net_.
BIRDS THROUGH AN OPERA GLASS. By Florence A. Merriam. (Riverside Library
for Young People, No. 3.) With Hints to Observers and an Appendix,
Bibliography, and Index. With many Illustrations. 16mo, 75 cents.
THE WOODPECKERS. By Mrs. Fannie Hardy Eckstorm. With five full-page
colored plates and many text illustrations. Square 12mo, $1.00.
A lively, yet accurate and orderly account of the woodpecker family,
treating somewhat exhaustively of five of the commonest species, and
less fully of the others. The book is in a form quite certain to
interest young people, and very likely to lead them to further
observation and investigation. Fully illustrated with five colored
pictures by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, the leading American bird artist, and
with cuts and diagrams in the text.
CORN PLANTS: THEIR USES AND WAYS OF LIFE. By Frederick Leroy Sargent,
formerly Instructor in Botany in the University of Wisconsin. In compact
form and in readable style the author gives a clear account of the six
important grain plants of the world,--wheat, oats, rye, barley, rice,
and maize. 12mo, 75 cents.
EVERY-DAY BUTTERFLIES. By Samuel H. Scudder. This book is written for
popular reading. It includes familiar accounts of sixty or more of the
commonest butterflies taken in the order of the season. With numerous
Illustrations, including 8 full-page colored plates. Crown 8vo, $2.00.
_A catalogue giving lists of books by Florence A. Merriam, Olive Thorne
Miller, John Burroughs, Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Frank
Bolles, and many other authors suitable for use in the study of Nature,
will be sent on application._