With Colored Plates, and Photographs from Life.
BIRD NEIGHBORS. An Introductory Acquaintance with 150 Birds Commonly Found in the Woods, Fields and Gardens About Our Homes. By Neltje Blanchan. With an Introduction by John Burroughs, and many plates of birds in natural colors. Large Quarto, size 7-3/4x10-3/8, Cloth. Formerly published at $2.00. Our special price, $1.00.
As an aid to the elementary study of bird life nothing has ever
been published more satisfactory than this most successful of
Nature Books. This book makes the identification of our birds
simple and positive, even to the uninitiated, through certain
unique features. I. All the birds are grouped according to color,
in the belief that a bird's coloring is the first and often the
only characteristic noticed. II. By another classification, the
birds are grouped according to their season. III. All the popular
names by which a bird is known are given both in the descriptions
and the index. The colored plates are the most beautiful and
accurate ever given in a moderate-priced and popular book. The most
successful and widely sold Nature Book yet published.
BIRDS THAT HUNT AND ARE HUNTED. Life Histories of 170 Birds of Prey, Game Birds and Water-Fowls. By Neltje Blanchan. With Introduction by G. O. Shields (Coquina). 24 photographic illustrations in color. Large Quarto, size 7-3/4x10-3/8. Formerly published at $2.00. Our special price, $1.00.
No work of its class has ever been issued that contains so much
valuable information, presented with such felicity and charm. The
colored plates are true to nature. By their aid alone any bird
illustrated may be readily identified. Sportsmen will especially
relish the twenty-four color plates which show the more important
birds in characteristic poses. They are probably the most valuable
and artistic pictures of the kind available to-day.
NATURE'S GARDEN. An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors. 24 colored plates, and many other illustrations photographed directly from nature. Text by Neltje Blanchan. Large Quarto, size 7-3/4x10-3/8. Cloth. Formerly published at $3.00 net. Our special price, $1.25.
Superb color portraits of many familiar flowers in their living tints, and no less beautiful pictures in black and white of others—each blossom photographed directly from nature—form an unrivaled series. By their aid alone the novice can name the flowers met afield.
Intimate life-histories of over five hundred species of wild flowers, written in untechnical, vivid language, emphasize the marvelously interesting and vital relationship existing between these flowers and the special insect to which each is adapted.
The flowers are divided into five color groups, because by this arrangement any one with no knowledge of botany whatever can readily identify the specimens met during a walk. The various popular names by which each species is known, its preferred dwelling-place, months of blooming and geographical distribution follow its description. Lists of berry-bearing and other plants most conspicuous after the flowering season, of such as grow together in different kinds of soil, and finally of family groups arranged by that method of scientific classification adopted by the International Botanical Congress which has now superseded all others, combine to make "Nature's Garden" an indispensable guide.
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LAVENDER AND OLD LACE. By Myrtle Reed.
A charming story of a quaint corner of New England where bygone
romance finds a modern parallel. One of the prettiest, sweetest,
and quaintest of old-fashioned love stories * * * A rare book,
exquisite in spirit and conception, full of delicate fancy, of
tenderness, of delightful humor and spontaneity. A dainty volume,
especially suitable for a gift.
DOCTOR LUKE OF THE LABRADOR. By Norman Duncan. With a frontispiece and inlay cover.
How the doctor came to the bleak Labrador coast and there in saving
life made expiation. In dignity, simplicity, humor, in sympathetic
etching of a sturdy fisher people, and above all in the echoes of
the sea, Doctor Luke is worthy of great praise. Character, humor,
poignant pathos, and the sad grotesque conjunctions of old and new
civilizations are expressed through the medium of a style that has
distinction and strikes a note of rare personality.
THE DAY'S WORK. By Rudyard Kipling. Illustrated.
The London Morning Post says: "It would be hard to find better
reading * * * the book is so varied, so full of color and life from
end to end, that few who read the first two or three stories will
lay it down till they have read the last—and the last is a
veritable gem * * * contains some of the best of his highly vivid
work * * * Kipling is a born story-teller and a man of humor into
the bargain."
ELEANOR LEE. By Margaret E. Sangster. With a frontispiece.
A story of married life, and attractive picture of wedded bliss * *
an entertaining story of a man's redemption through a woman's
love * * * no one who knows anything of marriage or parenthood can
read this story with eyes that are always dry * * * goes straight
to the heart of every one who knows the meaning of "love" and
"home."
THE COLONEL OF THE RED HUZZARS. By John Reed Scott. Illustrated by Clarence F. Underwood.
"Full of absorbing charm, sustained interest, and a wealth of
thrilling and romantic situations. "So naively fresh in its
handling, so plausible through its naturalness, that it comes like
a mountain breeze across the far-spreading desert of similar
romances."—Gazette-Times, Pittsburg. "A slap-dashing day
romance."—New York Sun.
THE FAIR GOD; OR, THE LAST OF THE TZINS. By Lew Wallace. With illustrations by Eric Pape.
"The story tells of the love of a native princess for Alvarado, and
it is worked out with all of Wallace's skill * * * it gives a fine
picture of the heroism of the Spanish conquerors and of the culture
and nobility of the Aztecs."—New York Commercial Advertiser.
"Ben Hur sold enormously, but The Fair God was the best of the
General's stories—a powerful and romantic treatment of the defeat
of Montezuma by Cortes."—Athenæum.
THE CAPTAIN OF THE KANSAS. By Louis Tracy.
A story of love and the salt sea—of a helpless ship whirled into
the hands of cannibal Fuegians—of desperate fighting and tender
romance, enhanced by the art of a master of story telling who
describes with his wonted felicity and power of holding the
reader's attention * * * filled with the swing of adventure.
A MIDNIGHT GUEST. A Detective Story. By Fred M. White. With a frontispiece.
The scene of the story centers in London and Italy. The book is
skilfully written and makes one of the most baffling, mystifying,
exciting detective stories ever written—cleverly keeping the
suspense and mystery intact until the surprising discoveries which
precede the end.
THE HONOUR OF SAVELLI. A Romance. By S. Levett Yeats. With cover and wrapper in four colors.
Those who enjoyed Stanley Weyman's A Gentleman of France will be
engrossed and captivated by this delightful romance of Italian
history. It is replete with exciting episodes, hair-breath escapes,
magnificent sword-play, and deals with the agitating times in
Italian history when Alexander II was Pope and the famous and
infamous Borgias were tottering to their fall.
SISTER CARRIE. By Theodore Drieser. With a frontispiece, and wrapper in color.
In all fiction there is probably no more graphic and poignant study
of the way in which man loses his grip on life, lets his pride, his
courage, his self-respect slip from him, and, finally, even ceases
to struggle in the mire that has engulfed him. * * * There is more
tonic value in Sister Carrie than in a whole shelfful of sermons.