"A book so free from technicalities as to be intelligible to a fourteen-year-old boy, and so convenient and full of original information as to be indispensable to the working ornithologist…. As a handbook of the birds of eastern North America it is bound to supersede all other works."—Science.
The Art of Taxidermy
By John Rowley, Chief of the Department of Taxidermy in the American Museum of Natural History. Illustrated. 12mo. Cloth, $2.
"The style of this book is a model for works of its kind. Every process of the difficult art of the taxidermist is here made plain with an ease that speaks eloquently of the author's skill in his field. Illustrations add to the clarity of the text, the whole affording a very valuable working knowledge of the stuffing and mounting of little and big game."—San Francisco Call.
Insect Life
By John Henry Comstock, Professor of Entomology in Cornell University. With illustrations by Anna Botsford Comstock, member of the Society of American Wood Engravers. 12mo. Library Edition, cloth, $2.50; Teachers' and Students' Edition, $1.50.
"Any one who will go through the work with fidelity will be rewarded by a knowledge of insect life which will be of pleasure and benefit to him at all seasons, and will give an increased charm to the days or weeks spent each summer outside of the great cities. It is the best book of its class which has yet appeared."—New York Mail and Express.
News from the Birds
By Leander S. Keyser. Appletons' Home-Reading Books. 12mo. Cloth, 60 cents net.
"Pleasantly combines instruction and entertainment."—Philadelphia Public Ledger.