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me 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. Troth, cannot but prove the most attractive, as they are the most useful, feature of this book.--_Preface._ BURROUGHS, JOHN. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers. Houghton. 1.00 This wise old nature-lover tells us in his delightful way of the fox, mink, skunk, weasel, porcupine, muskrat, and other wild creatures. There are fifteen colored illustrations reduced from Audubon's large pictures. CRAGIN, B.S. Our Insect Friends and Foes. Putnam. 1.75 A boy of eleven once asked me, in the midst of a schoolroom talk on the uses of participles, where a grasshopper's ears were.... I did not wonder that he found grasshoppers more interesting than participles--I do myself--and so, I am sure, do the young people for whom, most of all, this book has been written.--_Preface._ Butterflies, moths, and insects, are described, and full directions for collecting, preserving, and studying them, given in this (p. 132) satisfactory volume, which contains many illustrations. A list of popular and scientific names is included. ECKSTORM, F.H. The Woodpeckers. Houghton. 1.00 Illustrated with colored plates and figures in the text; non-technical; color key. This is an introduction to the study of Woodpeckers. Not arranged as a manual, but giving information as to structure and habits of the family, with several studies of
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