There are chapters giving the
characteristics of the families, the habitats, and the seasons of
occurrence.
AUDUBON SOCIETY.
Mr. Burroughs states that this book, which describes one hundred and
fifty of our more common birds, is reliable, and is written in a
vivacious strain by a real bird-lover, and should prove helpful and
stimulating to any one who seeks by the aid of its pages to become
better acquainted with our songsters. There are forty-eight plates in
color.
BLANCHAN, NELTJE (Pseudonym of Mrs. N.B. (DeG.) DOUBLEDAY).
Nature's Garden.
Doubleday. 3.00
Mrs. Doubleday has classified over five hundred flowers according to
color, months of blooming, their preferred localities or habitats, and
finally according to their proper families--by the classification
adopted by the International Botanical Congress. Special attention has
been given to the flowers' insect visitors. This large volume (p. 131)
contains thirty-two pages of color plates, and forty-eight in black
and white. Children learn so much from association with a book of this
sort that it has been placed, because of the pictures, under a younger
heading than the text alone would warrant.
Mr. Dugmore's very beautiful photographs in color from the living
flowers, and the no less exquisite portraits from life in black
and white by Mr.
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