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CHAMPLIN’S YOUNG FOLKS’
Cyclopædia of Natural History
By J. D. Champlin and F. A. Lucas
With over 800 illustrations. 725 pp. $2.50
A whole “nature library” about animals prepared by experts. Scientific facts are presented in simple language, and are enlivened by anecdotes, personal experiences, and references to history, art, and literature.
The illustrations are not only superior as animal pictures, but are genuinely illustrative, since they show the creature in its natural surroundings and characteristic action.
Extinct animals are fully treated, because these strange forms are fascinating to children, and because they illustrate the derivation of such familiar living animals as birds, horses, and dogs.
“A full menagerie of all sorts of animals, with a multitude of pictures.... A wonderful exhibition, and the story of each individual is interesting and calculated to stimulate the youthful mind in research.... Pictures carefully reproduced, so that they represent the creatures in their real forms and proportions.”—Brooklyn Eagle.