AMERICAN NATURE WRITERS
Toward spring clubs which have taken a heavy subject all winter will enjoy a program of ten meetings on our own writers about nature. The life of each should first be fully studied, and there may be many readings from books.
The story of John James Audubon is as interesting as the most romantic novel. Study this in full and describe his great book, "Birds of America"; read from his granddaughter's (Maria B. Audubon) "Life of Audubon" (Scribner).
Henry David Thoreau is a unique figure in our literary history. Read some of his poems; also Stevenson's sketch in "Familiar Studies;" and from "Thoreau," by F. B. Sanborn (Houghton Mifflin Co.).
John Burroughs is the most popular of our nature writers. Read "Wake Robin," "Birds and Poets," and "Indoor Studies" (Houghton Mifflin Co.).
John Muir though not an American by birth, was our chief scientific writer about nature. Read from "The Mountains of California" (Century Co.); "Our National Parks" (Houghton Mifflin Co.).
Stewart Edward White writes of the mountains and forests. Read: "The Forest" (Doubleday, Page), and "The Pass" (Outing Co.).
Select chapters from Ernest Thompson Seton's "The Biography of a Grizzly" (Century Co.), "Lives of the Hunted" (Scribner).
Read from Theodore Roosevelt's "The Hunting Trips of a Ranchman," "Hunting the Grizzly" (Putnam), and "Good Hunting" (Harper).
Read briefly of Henry C. McCook's life, and then from "Nature's Craftsmen" (Harper), and "Tenants of an Old Farm" (Jacobs).