American Animals.
Doubleday. 3.00
A readable book, beautifully illustrated, ... and in many of its life-histories much fuller, fresher, and more interestingly written than any other work on animals that I know.
Dallas Lore Sharp.
In preparing the present volume the aim has been to produce a work sufficiently free from technicalities to appeal to the general reader and at the same time to include such scientific information relative to our North American mammals as would be desired by one beginning their study.--Preface.
The illustrations which accompany these descriptions of the mammals of North America north of Mexico comprise six plates in color from paintings by A.B. Dugmore, and ninety-four half-tones from remarkable photographs from life by Messrs. Dugmore, Carlin, Beebe, and other expert nature-photographers. Some of the photographs were taken in the New York and Washington Zoölogical Parks, and some in the open.
Stories
The best romance becomes dangerous if by its excitement it renders the ordinary course of life uninteresting, and increases the morbid thirst for scenes in which we shall never be called on to act.
Ruskin.
Alcott, L.M.