ILLUSTRATED FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
BY WILSON A. BENTLEY

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1907, by
Doubleday, Page & Company

All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian

TO G. W. R.
I DEDICATE THIS LITTLE BOOK, AS AN EXPRESSION OF APPRECIATION AND ESTEEM

NOTE

I am greatly indebted to Mr. Wilson A. Bentley for valuable assistance in the arrangement of this book, and particularly for permission to reproduce the microphotographs. Jean M. Thompson.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE I. [When the Dew Falls] 5 II. [The Coming of the Hoar Frost] 37 III. [Etchings by Jack Frost] 65 IV. [Mysteries and Beauties of the Snow] 97 V. [Ice and Its Formation] 169 VI. [The Beneficent Rain] 205