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Birds and Poets, with other Papers. By John Burroughs. 16mo, $1.50.
Contents: Birds and Poets; April; Touches of Nature; A Bird Medley; Spring Poems; Our Rural Divinity; Emerson; The Flight of the Eagle (Walt Whitman); Before Genius; Before Beauty.
Mr. Burroughs, as a careful observer of nature, and one of the most fascinating descriptive writers, is an author whose reputation will constantly increase; for what he does in not only an addition to our information, but to the good literature that we put on the shelf with Thoreau and White of Selborne.—Hartford Courant.
Country By-Ways. By Sarah Orne Jewett. 18mo, $1.25.
In free and flowing lines Miss Jewett has drawn exquisite pictures of river and road and woodland, that fascinate by their happiness of descriptive detail, and by the kinship to humanity which the author finds in the flowers and trees and fields. Her treatment of the individuality and life of nature is masterly, and the skill with which she projects her figures on the canvas of her imagination is effective and suggestive.—Boston Transcript.
Drift-Weed. Poems. By Celia Thaxter. Small 4to, full gilt, $1.50
None of the poets of to-day have made so deep and sympathetic a study of the shifting aspects of the sea as has Mrs. Thaxter, and none of them have interpreted its meanings and analogies with half her grace and subtlety.—Boston Journal.