“The volume is fascinating from beginning to end, and there are many hints to be found in the wisdom and thrift shown by the smallest animal creatures.”—Boston Times.
“A splendid book to be put in the hands of any youth who may need an incentive to interest in out-door life or the history of things around him.”—Chicago Times.
BRIGHTWEN.—Inmates of My House and Garden. By Mrs. Brightwen. Illustrated. 12mo, $1.25.
“One of the most charming books of the season, both as to form and substance.”—The Outlook.
“The book fills a delightful place not occupied by any other book that we have ever seen.”—Boston Home Journal.
GAYE.—The Great World’s Farm. Some Account of Nature’s Crops and How They are Grown. By Selina Gaye. With a Preface by G. S. Boulger, F.L.S., and numerous Illustrations. 12mo, $1.50.
The University of California expressly commends this to its affiliated secondary schools for supplementary reading.
“It is a thoroughly well-written and well-illustrated book, divested as much as possible of technicalities, and is admirably adapted to giving young people, for whom it was prepared, a readable account of plants and how they live and grow.”—Public Opinion.
“One of the most delightful semi-scientific books, which everyone enjoys reading and at once wishes to own. Such works present science in the most fascinating and enticing way, and from a cursory glance at paragraphs the reader is insensibly led on to chapters and thence to a thorough reading from cover to cover.... The work is especially well adapted for school purposes in connection with the study of elementary natural science, to which modern authorities are united in giving an early and important place in the school curriculum.”—The Journal of Education.
HUTCHINSON.—The Story of the Hills. A Book about Mountains for General Readers and Supplementary Reading in Schools. By H. N. Hutchinson, author of “The Autobiography of the Earth,” etc. Illustrated. $1.50.