A Mother's List of Books for Children

by Gertrude Weld Arnold

The titles of some of the different articles are: In the Hemlocks, The Adirondacks, Spring at the Capital, and The Bluebird.

Chapman, E. M.

Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America.
Appleton. 3.00

Illustrated with full-page plates from photographs, and many cuts in the text. Systematically arranged; non-technical descriptions; both field and color keys. A very complete book for general use, treating all the birds of the section named, with some account of habits, etc. It has introductory chapters on Ornithology, Methods of Study, List of Dates of Spring and Fall migration, and a color chart to help in identification.

Audubon Society.

Ditmars, R. L.

The Reptile Book.
Doubleday. 4.00

Mr. Ditmars, Curator of Reptiles in the New York Zoölogical Park, gives us a comprehensive treatise on the structure and habits of the turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards, and snakes, of the United States and Northern Mexico. There are eight pages of plates in color and one hundred and twenty-eight in black and white, from photographs from life, taken (with six exceptions) by the Author.